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Anybody notice the Google Doodle of MLK has very big ears? All the pics I have seen his are those really small ears some Bros have.... Just Sayin.

Looking for a complete list of today's speakers. Was appalled to see that Jamie Foxx and Oprah were going to speak. Heard that someone from an LGBT organization and a global warming concern were also speaking. This got turned into a DEM party lovefest - would like to see which other loons spoke ...

  Above: La Raza protesters hijacking MLK's legacy for a cause he would vehemently oppose, said his top aide and speechwriter.- by John HillStand With Arizona As the nation recognizes the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech, advocates for illegal aliens have attempted to hijack the legacy of MLK in order to attack the new law. Janet Murguia of the National Council of La Raza ("The Race"), speaking at the Realize the Dream March and Rally days before the 50th anniversary of King's speech, Murguia said, "We march so that everyone knows that true...

“I think that Dr. King would be amazed in many ways about the progress that we’ve made,” he said. “What he would also say, though, is that the March on Washington was about jobs and justice,” he added. “And that when it comes to the economy, when it comes to inequality, when it comes to wealth, when it comes to the challenges that inner cities experience, he would say that we have not made as much progress as the civil and social progress that we’ve made, and that it’s not enough just to have a black president.

I grew up in a rural area of upstate New York that was overwhelmingly white, with almost no racial minorities around to speak of. In school, and in books, magazines, and on TV, I was bombarded with messages and tales about the extent of horrors that whites had done to other races over the generations, especially to blacks. For example, I was a tender lad of 13 or 14 when the wildly successful TV miniseries about slavery, Roots (based on the book of the same title by Alex Haley), dominated the airwaves and the national consciousness. Some of my schoolteachers...

Health Overhaul: In the latest and most desperate promotion of ObamaCare, the president is invoking Martin Luther King Jr. But the only "fierce urgency of now" is stopping ObamaCare before it can do more damage. You wouldn´t think a law that claims to provide a product millions are desperate to buy, and have to buy whether they want to or not, would need so much promotional help. But the Obama administration has been trying furiously to get some good PR about the still hugely unpopular ObamaCare in the weeks before it launches.

Would Martin Luther King Jr. support “Obamacare?” The president believes so. Appearing on the Tom Joyner Morning Show Tuesday, President Barack Obama says the iconic civil rights leader would have backed the Affordable Care Act. “Oh, he would like that … because I think he understood that health care, health security is not a privilege; it’s something that in a country as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to,” Obama explained....

The schedule is as follows, with personalities and performances listed in order of appearance. 11 a.m. to noon ●Geraldo Marshall (trumpet call). ●Pastor A.R. Bernard (invocation). ●Ambassador Andrew Young. ●Robby Novak, “Kid President.” ●National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. ●D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray. ●The Rev. Wintley Phipps. ●Sen. Angus King (I-Maine). ●Johnny L. DuPree, mayor of Hattiesburg, Miss., and secretary of the National Council of Black Mayors. ●Singers Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. ●Charles Steele Jr., chief executive of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ●Melanie L. Campbell, president and chief executive of the National Coalition on Black Civic...

Fifty years after the March on Washington, mystical memories of that seminal moment in the civil-rights era are less likely to focus on movement politics than on the great poetry and great music. The emotional uplift of the monumental march is a universe of time away from today's degrading rap music—filled with the n-word, bitches and "hoes"—that confuses and depresses race relations in America now. The poetry of Aug. 28, 1963, is best on view when Martin Luther King Jr. went off his speech script and started using a musical, chanting reprise—"I have a dream." The transforming insight born of...

More select tidbits... A lot of Democrats that tell me (privately) that they are just -distressed- over what Obama has done to the healthcare industry- and to jobs. They're afraid to say anything about it because of recriminations- because this regime fights back. This regime does not take internal criticism at all... (but) they would love to repeal it. They know they don't have the votes in the Senate I have Democrats tell me they're worried long-term, what's happening to (their) party... what they fear is that at some point the American people are going to wake up... there's...

Bernice King "it all begins – as does life – begins in a woman’s womb,” King said. “And so we incubate, we nurture and we birth out things and we can never, ever forget that." The enraged sponsors went wild...

It is important that we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Dr. King not only arguably delivered the greatest speech spoken on American soil, but his words were a critical turning point in the history of civil rights in America. When King said that he dreamt of the day that his children would be judged by the content of the character instead of the color of their skin, it was the point at which many white Americans began to rethink their views about blacks. Yet half a century later, it is sadly...

Looking over the program for the coming festivities in Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march on Washington, and Dr. King’s famous August 28, 1963 “I have a dream” speech, it’s hard to not feel sober about the whole thing. I say sober because there is good news and bad news. What’s the good news? There has been monumental progress in the quality of life, on average, that black Americans lead today compared to 1963. The bad news? Fifty years is a long time, and the progress that has been achieved is not nearly what it...

This weekend's promotion of the legend of Rev. Martin Luther King offers a reminder that the liberal media can blatantly state that it is their job to "print the legend," and not report on a historic figure's flaws. In the fall of 1989, King's longtime lieutenant Ralph Abernathy wrote a book titled "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down." Abernathy told the tale that Rev. King committed adultery with two women on the night before he was murdered. Bryant Gumbel, then a co-host of NBC's Today, lectured: "When the truth collides with a legend, print the legend." Our November 1989 newsletter...

The day after thousands rallied to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, the National Mall looks like a trash dump. The grass from the Lincoln Memorial to the World War II Memorial is covered Sunday with empty soda cans, water bottles, boxed lunches, newspapers, a broken chair and rally signs. The Reflecting Pool also was filled with trash. Although the trash cans were full along the expanse, the attendees did not attempt to leave their garbage near the bins. Instead, they left everything on the grass where they stood.

Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis -- who as a 23-year old civil rights activist helped organize the 1963 "March on Washington" -- said on Sunday that Martin Luther King, Jr. should be looked upon as one of America's founding fathers. Lewis said that he "saw hundreds and hundreds of young people" at the 50th anniversary events in Washington on Saturday, and "I said to myself, 'This is it', Dr. King must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of a new America," said Lewis on ABC's "This Week." "He helped hold us together."

Janet Murguia, the president of the National Council of La Raza, used her speech to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on Saturday to advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. Speaking at the Realize the Dream March and Rally days before the 50th anniversary of King's speech, Murguia said, "We march so that everyone knows that true justice must include enacting comprehensive immigration reform." She also said Americans should march for illegal immigrants who live "in the shadows" and who "live in fear every day of their lives because they are undocumented." Murguia also...

Tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, listening as political and civil rights leaders reflected on the legacy of racial progress over the last half-century and urged Americans to press forward in pursuit of King's dream of equality.

Newark mayor and U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker gave a stirring address to tens of thousands on the National Mall Saturday at the rally marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Booker’s five-minute speech focused on what he called his generation’s responsibility to carry on the commitment to justice and equality embodied by Dr. Martin Luther King and his historic “I have a dream” speech. “Please allow me to speak to those like myself who were not even alive when the March on Washington happened,” he began. “My father when I was growing up said it very simply,”...

The story of the radicals behind—and in front of—the demonstration that changed America.In 1956, when I was a student at Brooklyn College, Mike Harrington told Tom [Kahn, another Brooklyn College student] and me to go up to this office in Manhattan, on 57th Street, to work with Bayard Rustin,” Rachelle Horowitz remembers. Harrington (who was to author The Other America, which sparked the War on Poverty), Horowitz, and Kahn were all members of the Young People’s Socialist League, a democratic socialist organization of no more than several hundred members nationally. Rustin, their elder, boasted a longer left pedigree: a brief...