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Payroll Tax Cut Extension – The Final Straw to Voting those Bozos out of Congress

Payroll Tax Cut Extension – The Final Straw to Voting those Bozos out of Congress

By Charles S. Mombo #SeeMombo, #WWCLICK, #FlashmobB2C Today, while appearing as a “Good Cop,” House Speaker John Boehner suddenly gives a press conference in which he demanded the Senate to get rid of the two-month extension in favor of an immediate one-year [Read More]

National Defense Authorization Act – Unconstitutional and un-American

National Defense Authorization Act – Unconstitutional and un-American

By Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass The National Defense Authorization Act was recently passed by the Senate and places domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military. Have you heard the news? Your freedom is being threatened by Congress! As a [Read More]

They’re Just Mean: The Tea Party Tosses their Cookies . . . AT US!

They’re Just Mean:  The Tea Party Tosses their Cookies . . . AT US!

By: Yvonne Kendall Yvonne Kendall earned her doctorate at Stanford University. She currently serves as a professor at a state university in Texas. She is a regular contributor to ChocolateCity.cc. When I was growing up, it was not acceptable to be mean.  Making fun of [Read More]

Could Customize and Branded ZIP+4 Code Reduce USPS Financial Shortfall?

Could Customize and Branded ZIP+4 Code Reduce USPS Financial Shortfall?

By: Charles S. Mombo   Could Customize Branded ZIP+4 Code Reduce USPS Financial Shortfall? It is no secret that the United States Postal Service (USPS) is ineffective, broke and “on the brink of defaulting.” The USPS has been facing financial shortfall for [Read More]

Pizzas with tomato paste topping is now vegetable – GOP rollback Obama’s healthy school lunch program

Pizzas with tomato paste topping is now vegetable – GOP rollback Obama’s healthy school lunch program

Last night while 14 million unemployed Americans, who are facing undue hardship and financial stress, were hoping the Republicans would pass President Obama’s $447-billion jobs package, the “good-for-nothing 112th Republican Congress" was again pussyfooting [Read More]

Michele Bachmann says Black Farmers racism settlement was proof-positive fraud

Michele Bachmann says Black Farmers racism settlement was proof-positive fraud

President Obama kept his words when he said; he would bring "long-ignored claims of African-American farmers to a rightful conclusion." He is seen signing the .25 billion historic settlement in April 2010 . As a potential President of the United States of America, [Read More]

Shirley Sherrod declines USDA job offer after racist fiasco

Shirley Sherrod declines USDA job offer after racist fiasco

Shirley Sherrod Photo Credit: CBSAfter two hours of meeting today, Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development held a press conference. During the press conference, Sherrod, [Read More]

Bush’s Ladies Break Ranks with Republican Groupthink

Bush’s Ladies Break Ranks with Republican Groupthink

  Former First Lady Laura Bush and her beautiful daughter Barbara Bush, 28 year-old have proven that they are two independent thinkers that do not need the Republican party to think on their behalves. From every indication, these talented ladies are refusing to [Read More]

U.S. approves settlement for black farmers: where’s the check?

U.S. approves settlement for black farmers: where’s the check?

Black farmers rallied in Washington D.C. last week to receive payment from USDA discrimination settlement. (Source: Washington State House Republicans)President Obama kept his words when he said, he would bring "long-ignored claims of African-American farmers to a [Read More]

Rep. Joe Wilson – Clownish Discourteous and Uncouth Behavior

Rep. Joe Wilson – Clownish Discourteous and Uncouth Behavior

South Carolina Representative Joe WilsonRepresentative Joe Wilson, the 5th term Republican Senator from the 2nd District of South Carolina made a fool of himself tonight by shouting "You lie!" during President Obama’s address to the Congress and the nation. [Read More]

Jim Crow, Roland Burris and the 111th Congress

Jim Crow, Roland Burris and the 111th Congress

By Charles Mombo Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris With an uncomfortable resemblance of scenes from the Jim Crow era, the Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris, who is an African American was escorted out of the Capitol in the rain after being turned away when he [Read More]

Congress reduced Obama’s Secretary of State salary

Congress reduced Obama’s Secretary of State salary

Hillary ClintonCongress voted Wednesday night to reduce the Secretary of State’s salary back to its pre-2007 level of $186,000 to conform to a clause in Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution which stipulates that a member of congress cannot be appointed to a [Read More]

President Elect Barack Obama goes to the White House

President Elect Barack Obama goes to the White House

President Elect Obama Leaves White HouseAlthough it is not until after January 20th before President Elect Barack Obama changes his zip code from 60615 to 20500, he will however be heading to the white house today upon the invitation of current President George W. [Read More]

Open Letter to Americans: Declaration of Economic Emergency

Open Letter to Americans: Declaration of Economic Emergency

Declaration of Economic Emergency to Prevent the Economic Implosion of the United States of America. By P. Nathaniel Boe, Esq. Mr. P. Natheniel Boe, Esq.Today, September 29, 2008, the Great United States of America is near a point of unprecedented Economic Implosion or [Read More]

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30-years correspondence between Peyton Skipwith, a former slave to Liberia and his master, John Hartwell Cocke

30-years correspondence between Peyton Skipwith, a former slave to Liberia and his master, John Hartwell Cocke

By: Charles S. Mombo John Hartwell Cocke, a slave master, corresponded with Peyton Skipwith, a slave to in Liberia for [Read More]

President Obama’s Impressive “Accommodation”- Catholic Church Contraceptive Fiasco

President Obama’s Impressive “Accommodation”- Catholic Church Contraceptive Fiasco

By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass   President Obama’s brilliant political move, which he called an [Read More]

Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly misinterpreted as gang symbols?

Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly misinterpreted as gang symbols?

By:  Charles S. Mombo Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly [Read More]

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