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First Lady Michelle Obama brought renewed energy to the NAACP today, delivering the keynote speech at the annual convention one day before the nation's largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement. The nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization will vote on the resolution Tuesday during its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo. In addition to jobs and the economy, anti-Tea Party activism has been a large focus of the gathering, which conservative leaders say is driven solely by a political agenda. The resolution is part of the movement...

Skits You Will Never See on Saturday Night Live God sends Ronaldus Magnus and William F. Buckley to knight Rush Limbaugh and touch the finger of Sarah Palin, because Charlton Heston and William F. Buckley are busy playing cards with Maggie Thatcher and Pope John Paul II. House Budget Committee on Jan. 15, 2011 Democrat minority is sitting in Russian hats and Green ChiCom Caps with red star. Paul Ryan with the gavel Every time Ryan strikes the gavel, lightning flashes and thunder booms, and Ryan bellows, “Another Victory for Americans.” Cut all funding for the National Endowment for...

Say what you like about Barack Obama, but the man has some brilliant ideas. To help fund his $1 trillion overhaul of the US healthcare system, for example, he wants to tax vanity. Obama's allies have proposed a 10 per cent levy on every plastic surgery procedure (if not medically necessary) ....... This is one piece of social engineering that can harm no one; and if it saves just one American from looking like a Siamese cat in a wind tunnel, Obama will not have ruled in vain.

This is incredible. Listen to the audio. After listening to this blatant phony and fool, I thought to myself: "And the Democrats and the Media dare to criticize Bush?" I would be monumentally embarrassed to be a Democrat after listening to this.

A potential Off Broadway production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," an acclaimed solo show about an American demonstrator killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the destruction of a Palestinian home, has been postponed because of concerns about the show's political content. The production, a hit at the Royal Court Theater in London last year, had been tentatively scheduled to start performances at the New York Theater Workshop in the East Village on March 22. But yesterday, James C. Nicola, the artistic director of the workshop, said he had decided to postpone the show after polling local...

NEW YORK A syndicated newspaper column by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, which slammed Ohio's handling of the recent presidential election, is being accused of "blatant inaccuracies" by the Ohio Secretary of State's office. Carlo Lo Paro, press secretary for Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, claims that Jackson's column, distributed earlier this week through Tribune Media Services, contains numerous inaccuracies that hint at improper behavior by Blackwell's office. "We expect someone writing an op-ed and a syndicate distributing that op-ed would fact-check information and have a responsibility to the facts," Lo Paro told E&P Wednesday. "We believe someone can have...

I think the "sly' Sylvester, Condi Rice insult presents another great case study in how we as citizens have been given the power, via outlets such as FREE REPUBLIC, to get involved in getting all the news out, not just the news which the media elite wants us to see. How did the Condi Rice, Aunt Jemima comment by WTDY radio talk show jerk John 'Sly' Sylvester make it on to the airwaves of the MSM, rather than getting buried like so many stories about liberals malfeasance? I would like to think that I played a small part in that....

He's not called John ``Sly'' Sylvester for nothing. He is, as the saying goes, sly like a fox. He knows what he's doing. He's one more white guy with a big mouth who happens to have a radio talk show and who knows exactly how to play the game. The game is fame. And never mind how you get there. On his Madison, Wis., blab fest Wednesday, Sly called national security adviser and President Bush's choice for secretary of state Condoleezza Rice ``Aunt Jemima.'' The reference is pure racism. ``Whites gave us this image,'' says Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, author of ``Aunt...

MADISON — Sly, A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice (search) an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn't competent to be secretary of state.

An unrepentant Sly explained why he called the nominee to be secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, an "Aunt Jemima" and outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell an "Uncle Tom" on the radio Wednesday. Sly, the on-air name for John Sylvester, told WTDY-AM (1670) morning show listeners that Rice, who is black, bought her way into the White House with obedience to President Bush."I'm not apologizing for what I said," Sylvester said Thursday in an interview. "I stand by it."I was aiming that directly at a black person that is letting himself (and herself) be used by an administration that has...

is what was stated on a Madison, WI Radio Talk Show today. If she is being categorized as today's Aunt Jemima, this is great! Aunt Jemima is remembered with love and respect. Her role was a powerful one. Nancy Green, Rosie Lee Moore, Lillian Richard and many others who portrayed this image created an endearing and enduring icon. These women held jobs with high profile positions and traveled with expense accounts as celebrities in a time when women didn't hold high profile positions. These women were also historians. The character of Aunt Jemima was more than and advertisement for pancakes,...