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McCain Campaign Tried Using Assault Hoax to Slime Obama
The Huffington Post, 10-24-08The day after her story of a politically-motivated assault made headlines around the nation, coverage pushed relentlessly by McCain-Palin campaign officials, a McCain...
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Helms and Herzenberg: When The Old South Met New
The Huffington Post, 10-28-08Top McCain Advisor Learned Slime Tactics From Jesse HelmsDespite sharing the same initials and middle name "Alexander," Jesse Helms and Joe Herzenberg were very different....
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Early Voting Flood in Swing States Predicts Obama Tsunami
The Huffington Post, 11-3-08Beyond election-eve polls, the best indicator of how this election will turn out is to look at who has already voted. Early voting has now ended across the country, and the...
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Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We Did
The Huffington Post, 11-5-08The day after the 2008 election of Barack Obama, our first African-American President, it is a truly historic time to be an American. Slavery was one of the United States'...
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Supposedly Safe GOP House Seat in CA Too Close To Call
The Huffington Post, 11-6-08Prop 8 Hangs In Balance as GOP Lawyers Try To Influence Vote CountTwo days after the Nov. 4 elections, a congressional race in conservative Orange County, California that...
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Wave of Racist Terrorism Follows Obama Victory
NewsOne, 11-11-08By CASEY GANE-MCCALLAMost of the post-election reaction to Barack Obama's presidential win has been beautiful. People from all backgrounds, races, cultures and religions are elated to...
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Ten Chumps Who Helped Elect Barack Obama
The Huffington Post, 11-14-08Barack Obama ran a great campaign. While shattering all fundraising records, he created a movement backed by small donors, not big lobbyists. Using community organizing...
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The GOP Must Denounce Rush Limbaugh
NewsOne, 12-29-08The Rest of Us Should Boycott Clear ChannelBy CASEY GANE-MCCALLAWith the recent scandal involving Chip Saltsman, a candidate to run the RNC, and his distribution of Rush Limbaugh's mix...
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Israel vs. Gaza: 985 to 13 and Counting
NewsOne, 1-12-09By CASEY GANE-MCCALLAAs Israel continues its re-invasion of Gaza, all this talk of a proportionate response and Israel defending itself seems to be off the mark, judging by the numbers....
View ArticleMLK’s Words Changed Our World
NewsOne, 1-14-09By CASEY GANE-MCCALLA(Editor's note - Today, January 15, would have MLK's 80th birthday.)Martin Luther King, Jr. might be the greatest orator in American history. His words and speeches...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush's Legacy of Shame
This look back at the long national nightmare we endured during George W. Bush's presidency comes courtesy of Omid Malekan at Visual Stories.
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An Entirely Different Inauguration Day
The Huffington Post, 1-20-09Earlier today, as President Obama was sworn in, everything about the event heralded change. From Aretha Franklin singing My Country, 'Tis of Thee, to the Rev. Joseph Lowery...
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Why Did the BBC Censor a Cry to Help Gaza Victims?
The Huffington Post, 1-28-09Gaza is recovering from Israel's latest assault, which ended in a cease-fire earlier this month. In the UK, the British Broadcasting Corporation has let down its worldwide...
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Operation Chaos II: Get Rush
NewsOne, 3-3-09By CASEY GANE-MCCALLALast year, Rush Limbaugh attempted to divide the Democratic party between supporters of Hillary Clinton and those for Barack Obama. Calling it "Operation Chaos," he...
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Send Smithfield Foods the Bill for Swine Flu Outbreak?
You don't need to have read Stephen King's The Stand to be scared about the swine flu outbreak. Or, as the pork industry prefers, the H1N1 virus.The wave of media hysteria that swept the nation this...
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The Secret Superdelegate War Revealed
The Huffington Post, 6-4-09Now that President Obama has settled into the job enough to give Brian Williams a backstage pass to the West Wing, the heat of last year's campaign has faded. Especially with...
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20 Years Ago Today: SEAC on the Threshold of a National Movement
Nearly twenty years after we both spent countless hours helping to organize Threshold in our first semester at UNC-Chapel Hill, C-line and I recently sat down to remember SEAC's early days. We thought...
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Pulping is the Publishing Industry's Dirty Little Secret
In time for the holiday season, while you're perusing best-of-lists to find that perfect book gift for a loved one, here's something the publishing industry doesn't want you to know. By shipping books...
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Why Won't Borders Donate Their Soon-To-Be-Trashed Books?
The Huffington Post, 12-11-09Last month, corporate parent Borders announced they will soon be closing 200 Waldenbooks book stores in communities nationwide. Current Waldenbooks employees have come...
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Voters Support Voter-Owned Elections
Chapel Hill News, 3-31-10Recently, the right wing Civitas Institute directed one of their interns to write up a misinformed attack on Chapel Hill's pioneering voter-owned elections (VOE) program...
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