May 2013 Blog Posts (17)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There was nothing subtle about the Washington Times recent poll question: “It asked will Attorney General Eric Holder be forced to resign in six months.” The percentage of votes for yes was lopsided. Considering the source, the conservative Washington Times, the poll may have been more wishful longing than merely an objective gauge of public opinion about Holder. At the very least, it spoke to something that has…

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The news that Apple paid zero taxes on tens of billions in income on its overseas operations, investments, and sales grabbed a momentary headline but stirred little more than a yawn among GOP leaders. There’s little surprise here for several well-known and deeply troubling reasons. The tax dodge scheme that Apple and other giant corporations and banking entities use to pay zero or minimum taxes on their sales and investments…

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced the award of 6 Impact Awards on Tuesday, May 21. The special awards are to the Passage Program at Los Angeles Southwest College. The program is a collaborative effort of staff and faculty at Southwest College to boost graduation rates of young…

An Exclusive Hutchinson Report News Feature

The complete unedited speech of President Obama to African-American graduating students at HBCU Morehouse College 

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons. The four alleged scandals, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP leaks, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius supposed shakedown of corporations to help implement the health care act don’t come close to passing the smell test for a public fogging of the president. There is absolutely…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There are two pesky myths about Democratic presidents. One is that they are inherently dovish on foreign policy and they are anti-big business in their domestic policy. The GOP myth that Democratic presidents were chronic foreign policy pushovers got some traction in the early going with the GOP attacks on Democratic presidential candidate Obama and for as short time immediately after his election  as President. He quickly…

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The GOP won’t give up on Benghazi for the simple reason that any and everything no matter how big, small, trivial, or downright nutty, that even remotely allows it to slur President Obama it will race to the stars with. Benghazi is not simply the latest in the hit plan against Obama but the longest standing and most relentless of the GOP’s ploys. The GOP sniffed administration blood on this from virtually the moment the first…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did the seemingly impossible. He turned from court mute to a hit man on President Obama. In an interview at Duquesne University Law School in April, Thomas snidely rapped Obama for being the darling of the “elites.” To Thomas that means liberals, progressives, intellectuals, and the supposedly hopelessly liberal media. Thomas punctuated his slam of Obama by plopping the race…

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