This week “National Public Radio” profiled Marvin Rogers an urban Republican who has been featured on HHR many times.

Marvin is the type of Republican that Jack Kemp would have been proud of here is a guy who is truly ‘on the ground” in urban areas spreading a genuine message of personal empowerment.

Stefani Carter a former Collin County prosecutor and Harvard Law School graduate recently announced her candidacy for a Texas State Representative seat. The seat includes Richardson, Lake Highlands and Garland. Stefani will face two formable opponents in the primary and the general election.

The Democrats must understand that the American people are shopping. The American people want to choose the plan they are going to pay for. This is not being bigoted, but it is called “shopping around”. We “shop around” every day in our everyday lives. We take in the cost and the durability of the item we seek to have and then we purchase it. On both concerns, with regards to cost and durability, the public option is found wanting!

  P.J. O’Rourke is a 21st-century H.L. Mencken—a libertarian satirist and quote-machine who’s deeply suspicious of most any office-holder (“Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit”). Since the 1970s, O’Rourke has written for all kinds of publications, including Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Automobile, and The National Lampoon. He is the H.L. Mencken [...]

New Yorkers at noon will filled the streets of Manhattan to celebrate gay pride and the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1969. Today is a reminder that the gay rights and tolerance continues to be a challenge.

So I stumbled upon Ciara’s new song” Never, Never” which is being played on every Hip-Hop radio station in New York ad nauseam. The song I would grade as “okay” but why did I think this was Brandy when I first heard it? Never mind that the actual video is better then the song, one [...]

This officer made a decision to unholster his weapon, aim it and fire. I will watch and listen with interest to the justifications offered to explain away the murder of a young black man as somehow reasonable. The Republican blog “A Political Season”  opines about the recent shootings involving the police and a young black [...]

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Commentprops.com by Star Johnson When I was 18, I loved being bad. Hanging with the wrong people at the wrong place. Doing the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. There was a cop that patrolled my old stomping grounds, Officer Booker. I don’t know if it was his real name or one given to [...]

By Mendy Hecht It’s pretty easy to explain both sides of the Gaza conflict.  The Israeli side: “Every country has the right to defend itself.”  The Muslim Arab side: “We are freedom fighters striking back against oppression and occupation and we are fighting to liberate our homeland.”  But who’s right?  Whose land is it?  Whose [...]

 Political parties are always dealing with the tension between those who are the dogmatists and those who are pragmatists. In the 80s and 90s, the Democrats were fighting amongst themselves, with the New Deal dogmatists on the one side and the New Democrat pragmatists on the other. In the end, the pragmatists were able to [...]

 ASSOCIATED PRESS  – Republican Allan Fung is Rhode Island’s first Asian-American mayor.Fung, 38, takes over executive control of Cranston, the state’s third-largest city, from Democrat Michael Napolitano. Fung is a former City Council member who won 63 percent of the vote in November over fellow democrat Cindy Fogarty. http://www.fungformayor.com/galla.html

Gerard Matthews, Arkansas Times “My life pretty much changed overnight.” That’s how native Arkansan Princella Smith describes speaking at the 2004 Republican National Convention at the age of 20. She got to the stage by winning a speech contest sponsored by MTV called “Stand Up and Holla,” and soon found herself thrust into the national [...]

 By Cleo Brown The Guggenheim Museum is one of six museums in New York City, New York. The other five museums are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The MOMA, The Whitney Museum, The Museum of Natural History, and The Transit Museum. The Guggenheim Museum is International in its scope and includes a museum not only [...]

“Hip Hop Republican” contributor Lenny McAllister was featured on the home page of The Root January 6th with his latest contribution, “The GOP’s Silver Lining.” The article can still be founded here: http://www.theroot.com/id/49236