The CBC and the Black community want to believe in Obama’s presidency; but there is nothing tangible he has given them to believe in. “But what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away. What seems to be is always better than nothing at all.”

So, members of the CBC have begun to blame the Tea Party for the high unemployment rate in the Black community. People of good will within the Black community must call out these members of the CBC for what they are—race baiters. You can’t blame the Tea Party for Obama ignoring his own people.

In 2009 and 2010, Obama controlled the House and the Senate. He had the votes to ram through any legislation he wanted—and he did nothing. Can you blame that on the Tea Party also?

Look at what CBC Chairman, Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) said, “If (former President) Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House…There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.”

Jon Huntsman seems like a solid, reasonable guy with outstanding leadership credentials and a great head on his shoulders. He speaks like an adult. He has accomplished great things in both corporate life and public service, building an impressive resume that anyone would envy.

So why in all hell is he running for the GOP nomination for President?

Don’t misunderstand me. I firmly believe that the American public, especially right now, is absolutely dying for the chance to elect a full-grown Republican to the White House. A reasonable candidate who has held a real job, occasionally reads a book, and questions the voices in his head would go down like a cool drink of water on an August day. But if you think you’re that guy, you have to be prepared to fight like a wet raccoon for the GOP nomination.

It’s no secret that I am no fan of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) because they are traitors to the black community. Nonetheless, I did start to feel optimistic thinking their souls are not completely owned by white liberals.

I got this idea when I heard Maxine Waters ask for permission to critique President Obama. Its absurd to think that a member of Congress should ask for permission to critique a president especially since she went after President Bush with reckless abandon.

All things considered, this was a step in the right direction. With black unemployment at nearly 16% nationwide and 50% in many cities, I asked myself is this the moment that the Congressional Black Caucus finally put the needs of the American people ahead of the liberal agenda?

It was in mid-1960s New York—under the leadership of a Barack Obama precursor, Hollywood-handsome John Lindsay—that the country’s first top-bottom political coalition emerged. In 1965, Gotham had more manufacturing jobs than any other city in the country. But the city’s political elites used eminent domain to push manufacturing aside in favor of business services; they also expanded social programs to help African-Americans and Puerto Ricans.

The service sector proved rough going for the less educated, and the social programs failed. New York City responded by inflating its unionized public-sector workforce to incorporate minority workers. Higher taxes to pay for bigger government joined higher crime to produce a massive exodus of manufacturing and middle-class jobs. Over the last 45 years, New York has led the country in outmigration.

Reading the mainstream liberal press, one might be brainwashed to believe Obama is the Messiah incarnate and Republicans are spawns of Satan. All this garbage talk that somehow Tea Party members of Congress brought America to the brink of default and are collectively responsible for the country receiving its first credit downgrade is asinine at best and pathetic at worst. It’s embarrassingly indicative of a president without a compass, who along with his Democrat protectors of the welfare state, refuse to take responsibility for his failed policies of endless spending and face reality that the US piggy bank is bankrupt.

What’s more startling than the mainstream liberal media blaming Tea Party conservatives for the country’s fiscal woes is New York Times reporter Joe Nocera referring to Tea Party members of Congress as “terrorists” who wore “suicide vests” and “waged jihad on the American people.” Comparing members of Congress to terrorists is reprehensible but of course this received zero condemnation from the news media because it was a liberal reporter lambasting Republicans. We all know if a Wall Street Journal reporter had compared left wing Democrats to terrorists, the mainstream liberal news media would never let Republicans hear the end of it.

Broadband Internet access has moved from being a luxury to becoming a necessity. Through broadband, Americans are connecting and sharing information in ways that, just 5 years ago, were only available to a select few.

Today, anyone can video conference with friends in different countries, or upload a video from their cell phone while at a concert. These and other innovations have been driven by an ever increasing reliability, and vastly improved speed of broadband internet access; which is limited only by one’s coverage.

The Internet Innovation Alliance, a non-profit coalition working to ensure universal broadband access for Americans says that broadband technology is also driving the nation’s economy and the future of all Americans. From its use in education to the management of your health, broadband is improving American lives; both at work and at play. In short, broadband access brings Americans opportunities that would otherwise be unavailable.

In today’s America, the new power lies with the Tea Party. The mess on Capitol Hill reveals the inept ability of not only Democrats to pass key legislation when they have a majority, but it also shows that Republican leaders are being made to walk the “plank” if they do not deliver on their promise of former President George H. W. Bush “No New Taxes”!! While Bush unfortunately couldn’t completely fulfill that promise, today’s Republican can’t avoid it.

In the debt talks, Republican’s are holding the line and sticking to their principles. While many may disagree with the Republicans stance on tax increases, they must learn from these political figures like Grover Norquist and the various Tea Party groups who actually force these Politicians to do what they say they will do. Imagine if citizens in Harlem forced Rep. Charlie Rangel to sign a morality pledge or to only sign onto bills that specifically dealt with housing equality in NYC.

IT ONCE WAS fashionable to suppose that slavery had made the conventional family difficult to sustain because of spouses so often being sold away from one another and children being separated from their parents. A natural conclusion was that, after slavery, the old patterns persisted, especially given how difficult conditions continued to be for black people, and that this was an understandable precursor to the fatherless norm in inner-city black communities after the 1960s.

There is, indeed, sociological literature showing that it was hardly unknown for black people to be raised by single mothers during slavery and afterward. In fact, over the last 150 years, there have always been proportionately more single-parent black homes than white ones.

However, as classic work by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman has shown, despite the horrors of slavery, overall, during the pre-emancipation era, about two-thirds of enslaved families had two parents — far more than today. More recent revisionist work has stressed that, while forced separations were always an important part of the picture, the two-thirds figure remained dominant (Wilma Dunaway is especially handy on this).

With unemployment surging to 9.2% in June, President Obama is in NO position to tell Republicans what to do much less command them to capitulate to his wishes on raising the nation’s debt ceiling by August 2, 2011.

Democrats got a big shellacking in the 2010 mid-term elections, giving Republicans control of the House and more Senate seats. Obama’s budget was rejected by the Senate 97-0 and Democrats haven’t produced a budget in over 700 days. Meanwhile, the president, riding a sky high spending spree, introduced a $3 trillion budget for 2012.

In two short years in office, Obama has spent $4 trillion about the same amount President Bush spent in his entire eight years in office. President Obama is not the Messiah and I hope by now the liberal news media and supporters can painfully see this and end this sickening fawning over a man, who has failed as president. Last week Obama held a White House press conference acting like a king holding court over his loyal subjects. His demeanor was childish, glib and anything put leader-like.

According to The New York Times, the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) is about to fall apart. The alleged victim has lied about a number of things and shattered her credibility in the process.

Lies include an alleged rape and genital mutilation on her asylum application that there is no evidence to support; money deposited into her account by a convicted drug trafficker who she claims to not be associated with; and even how many cellphones she owns, which at last count was 5.

Of course, the case falling apart doesn’t necessarily mean DSK is innocent. But it does give those who rushed to the judgement that he’s guilty a chance to have some humility and say: “You know, maybe we should let all the facts come out and save judgement for a jury?”

David Levin and Mike Feinberg, co-founders of the KIPP schools, were not the first to conclude that education was key to lifting the next generation out of poverty. But they were among the first to discover and implement an educational formula that seemed to work for at-risk children: long school days, rigorous discipline, carefully selected teachers, and “no excuses.”

Since 95 percent of KIPP students are African-American or Hispanic, some admirers even wondered whether the founders were creating a model for radically closing the racial achievement gap. KIPP’s new report on its college outcomes, released in April, is a long way from dashing these hopes, but it does temper them. The report, “The Promise of College Completion: KIPP’s Early Successes and Challenges,” studied the college outcomes of the earliest of the KIPP students 10 years after graduation.

Some of the findings revealed stunning success, especially considering that at that time, KIPP only served middle-schoolers: 95 percent of those first KIPP graduates went on to get their high school diploma. This figure is not only higher than the 83 percent overall U.S. average; it’s also way beyond the 70 percent of students in the bottom-income quartile who earn their high school diploma (or GED), and who come from backgrounds similar to KIPPsters. The numbers of former KIPP students who went on to college were similarly impressive: 89 percent of the KIPP graduates enrolled in higher education, compared with a U.S. average of 62 percent, and just 41 percent of low-income kids.

How do you get rich Republicans to support gay marriage? By appealing to their libertarian sensibilities. The New York Times is out with its lyrical, 2,000-plus-word tick-tock of how the gay-marriage fight was won.

As Newt Gingrich’s candidacy “burns,” Mitt Romney is haunted by Obamneycare, and Jon Huntsman looks like a squishy RINO, conservatives need Governor Perry to right side this GOP ship for 2012. Perry’s plain talking, tell it like is style and passion, could make him the Bill Clinton of 1992. Clinton entered the presidential race late and rose like a meteor to the top of the heap.

Besides his ability to communicate, Perry could teach President Obama a lesson or two about how to lead and get the economy going. In the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression and yes we’re still in one, Perry created over 254,000 jobs in Texas last year. Since 2009, 38% of all US jobs created were in Texas, Texas the top state in the nation for job creation. (You paying attention Obama?)

The state of Texas’ business friendly environment has led to companies fleeing hostile regulatory state of California in droves for the greener pastures of Texas. In fact, 14 out of 70 businesses fleeing the debt ridden, sky high tax state of California ran to the heart of Texas. Another benefit to companies moving to Texas is their employees don’t have to pay a state income tax because Texas has none.

Some ideas age so poorly that they become almost pointless to defend. Nevertheless I’ll admit that like most Republicans of my age I was a pretty enthusiastic Neo-Conservative long before I ever heard the term. The NeoCons earned a pretty bad reputation over the last decade as the lies that led us into the Iraq War were followed by failure after failure. It’s a political philosophy that…well…didn’t quite work out. But do they really deserve all the scorn?

First, let’s clarify what the Neo-Conservative movement stood for. The NeoCons emerged in the ’70′s from an alliance between staunchly anti-Communist liberals and conservatives who were unhappy with Kissinger. The Nixon Era had produced a foreign policy that abandoned the effort to promote American values. This philosophy had no concern for other nations’ internal politics. The only issue that mattered in foreign policy was the promotion of American security and wealth with an emphasis on classic balance of power.

Reagan began a tentative trend away from this thinking. He spoke about the universality of liberty and confronted the Soviets on human rights and Afghanistan. He even went a step further by allowing the oppressive, but pro-American regime of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines to collapse without US opposition.

Just when you think DC government and its band of corrupt politicians can’t get any worse, more scandal is unearthed. Attorney General Irvine Nathan filed a lawsuit June 6th in DC Superior Court, alleging Ward 5 Democrat Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. of stealing $300,000 in public funds to buy a $60,000 Audi SUV and fund trips to Las Vegas and the upscale Pebble Beach, CA. The lawsuit demands Thomas repay the money to the city plus damages to the tune of $1 million.

Responding to the Thomas scandal, DC Council Chairman Kwame “Fully-Loaded” Brown vowed to develop “a plan of action” to deal with these allegations. Brown has zero credibility in holding any councilmember accountable for wrong doing when he has been accused of failing to report $250,000 in campaign contributions during his 2008 campaign. The City Paper obtained emails proving three days after he was elected Chairman, Brown demanded the city lease two pimped Lincoln Navigators for him to drive.

Please, Brown promising to take seriously these allegations against Thomas is like Rep. Weiner telling the NYC court he’ll guard Strauss Kahn during his house arrest. If DC residents believe Brown’s pledge, they’ll believe anything.