Why is President Obama the first black man instead of the first half black or (in quaint terms) the first ‘half breed’.  Yes I understand he looks black by most people but to a true African he is very pale. And there are Hispanics (mostly from South or Central America) with different shades of [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2012/03/28/why-is-a-president-with-one-black-and-one-white-parent-black-while-a-man-with-one-white-parent-and-one-hispanic-a-white-manwhite-hispanic-2/feed/ 0 http://www.thepolight.org/2012/03/28/why-is-a-president-with-one-black-and-one-white-parent-black-while-a-man-with-one-white-parent-and-one-hispanic-a-white-manwhite-hispanic/ http://www.thepolight.org/2012/03/28/why-is-a-president-with-one-black-and-one-white-parent-black-while-a-man-with-one-white-parent-and-one-hispanic-a-white-manwhite-hispanic/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:23:51 +0000 Lefty Bullington http://www.thepolight.org/?p=871  

Why is President Obama the first black man instead of the first half black or (in quaint terms) the first ‘half breed’. Yes I understand he looks black by most people but to a true African he is very pale. Yes, there are Hispanics (mostly from South or Central America) with different [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2012/03/28/why-is-a-president-with-one-black-and-one-white-parent-black-while-a-man-with-one-white-parent-and-one-hispanic-a-white-manwhite-hispanic/feed/ 0 http://www.thepolight.org/2011/12/09/why-did-obama-give-iran-nuclear-weapons/ http://www.thepolight.org/2011/12/09/why-did-obama-give-iran-nuclear-weapons/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:56:04 +0000 Joe http://www.thepolight.org/?p=861 You heard right. By not doing everything in his power to destroy the ‘top secret’ drone they captured he has probably started Armageddon. No, I don’t think Iran can reverse engineer the drone and build millions of them to start World war III. It’s much easier than that. Iran [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2011/12/09/why-did-obama-give-iran-nuclear-weapons/feed/ 1 http://www.thepolight.org/2011/08/17/why-is-the-fda-forcing-tobacco-companies-to-market-to-minors-2/ http://www.thepolight.org/2011/08/17/why-is-the-fda-forcing-tobacco-companies-to-market-to-minors-2/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:31:45 +0000 Lefty Bullington http://www.thepolight.org/?p=846 http://www.thepolight.org/2011/08/17/why-is-the-fda-forcing-tobacco-companies-to-market-to-minors-2/feed/ 0 http://www.thepolight.org/2011/08/17/why-is-the-fda-forcing-tobacco-companies-to-market-to-minors/ http://www.thepolight.org/2011/08/17/why-is-the-fda-forcing-tobacco-companies-to-market-to-minors/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:37:04 +0000 Lefty Bullington http://www.thepolight.org/2011/08/17/why-is-the-fda-forcing-tobacco-companies-to-market-to-minors/

Yes I said the FDA is forcing the tobacco companies to market their advertisements directly toward children. It may have been a long time since I was a teenager (I’m only 29 and some months, a lot of months; LOL) but I still remember how a teenager and especially a preteen thinks. [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2011/08/17/why-is-the-fda-forcing-tobacco-companies-to-market-to-minors/feed/ 0 http://www.thepolight.org/2011/03/11/was-obamacare-vote-illegal/ http://www.thepolight.org/2011/03/11/was-obamacare-vote-illegal/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:45:37 +0000 Lefty Bullington http://www.thepolight.org/?p=841 While watching the Wisconsin vote unfurl it made me think about the way the Democrats rammed through Obama care with only 51 votes.  They had to remove all budgetary items.  Well, didn’t the Senate have to do the same thing with the Obamacare bill?  If that is true for their bill then they [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2011/03/11/was-obamacare-vote-illegal/feed/ 0 http://www.thepolight.org/2010/06/10/where-is-all-the-religious-leaders%e2%80%99-outrage-on-presidential-cursing/ http://www.thepolight.org/2010/06/10/where-is-all-the-religious-leaders%e2%80%99-outrage-on-presidential-cursing/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:03:36 +0000 Lefty Bullington http://www.thepolight.org/?p=826 Maybe I’m just an old prude with outdated values but I believe the President of the United States of America should be Presidential.  Yes, I know the President is only human and I’m sure he says some choice words when he stumps his toe the same as I, but I don’t expect him [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2010/06/10/where-is-all-the-religious-leaders%e2%80%99-outrage-on-presidential-cursing/feed/ 1 http://www.thepolight.org/2010/06/03/amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants-that-will-work/ http://www.thepolight.org/2010/06/03/amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants-that-will-work/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:54:18 +0000 Joe http://www.thepolight.org/?p=809 Our country was founded by and for immigrants; and unless you are a full blooded Native American Indian then at least part of your ancestors were immigrants.  Our country would have never become the great world power it is without immigrants.  Immigrants have an intrinsic quality in the [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2010/06/03/amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants-that-will-work/feed/ 1 http://www.thepolight.org/2010/05/04/it%e2%80%99s-bp%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-bush%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-wall-street%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-not-my-fault/ http://www.thepolight.org/2010/05/04/it%e2%80%99s-bp%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-bush%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-wall-street%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-not-my-fault/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 22:27:44 +0000 Lefty Bullington http://www.thepolight.org/?p=793 President Obama has started sounding like a broken record.  Blame it on someone else, it’s not my fault.  (By the way, for those under the age of 30, a record was like a CD but made of vinyl and if it happened to become cracked or scratched, it would repeat a part of the [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2010/05/04/it%e2%80%99s-bp%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-bush%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-wall-street%e2%80%99s-fault-it%e2%80%99s-not-my-fault/feed/ 2 http://www.thepolight.org/2010/04/16/teaparty-violence/ http://www.thepolight.org/2010/04/16/teaparty-violence/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:45:41 +0000 Lefty Bullington http://www.thepolight.org/?p=777 Yesterday I attended the tax-day teaparty that was organized by the Midsouth Teaparty of which I am a recent member.  While standing with my sign (Obamacare is a Grave Mistake), a lady with a video camera came up to me and asked, “Where is all the violence?”   I asked her what she meant.  [...]]]> http://www.thepolight.org/2010/04/16/teaparty-violence/feed/ 1