June 2012 Blog Posts (15)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Attorney General Eric Holder has repeatedly and publicly called the drumbeat attacks on him…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama was right. The Supreme Court’s decision was “a victory” for the people, a monumental victory, and one that will and should be savored. But the victory unfortunately comes with a political price. The…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney has said only one thing about the Affordable Care Act. It must go and on day one of his administration if elected he will start the ball rolling to repeal it. The Supreme Court may well save him from this braggadocio, vote pandering…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama and top Democrats have repeatedly exuded cautious confidence that the Supreme Court will uphold part or most of the Affordable Care Act. But underneath their strained optimism, the Obama administration almost certainly knows that politics not law will ram its way into the court’s final decision. There was never much doubt that the health care law…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Attorney General Eric Holder hang tough and ignore Florida Senator Marco Rubio and the soon to be drumbeat of other Republicans sniffing your blood that will call for your resignation. He’s done nothing wrong.  He has turned over thousands of documents to the political witch hunting chair of the…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Arkansas Tea Party leader Richard Caster gave all the appearances at least publicly of being a man genuinely outraged at what one of his Ozark Tea Party steering committee members said and did. Inge Marler told a meeting of the Ozark Tea Party in Mountain Home, Ark., on the Baxter County Fairgrounds a…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The GOP controlled House Oversight Committee’s threat to bring contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder are merely the tail end of the GOP’s endless ploy to harass, embarrass, and ultimately weaken President Obama. The GOP always saw Holder as the weak link in the Obama administration; the one appointee who had potentially…

Impact Micro Awards for June Announced

Fathers and Parenting Support Focus

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced its Impact Micro Awards for June on Tuesday, June 12. Impact Micro Awards are made to support organizations that have a proven track record of commitment to building community sustainability projects, activities, and service. The…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The racial pillorying of First Lady Michelle Obama was bad enough. The occasional snide digs and ugly depictions of the Obama’s daughters were even more despicable. But now the presidential family’s pet Portuguese Water Dog, Bo has taken heat. A Brown University social scientist used polling experiments and an…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The chatter flew hot and heavy that former President Bill Clinton may be more of a liability than an asset to President Obama’s reelection drive. His alleged sins are two fold. He is a loose cannon who might say anything at any time that could harm or embarrass Obama. His quips that he…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama was indeed prophetic when he said at a press conference a year ago that his release of his long form birth certificate would not convince countless numbers of anti-Obama skeptics that he was a bona fide American. Nearly a year after  the president called it right on the bogus issue, the Public Policy Polling…