In September, Rep. Trey Radel voted for Republican legislation that would allow states to make food stamp recipients pee in cups to prove they're not on drugs. In October, police busted the Florida Republican on a charge of cocaine possession.

"'It’s really interesting it came on the heels of Republicans voting on everyone who had access to food stamps get drug tested," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told BuzzFeed Tuesday. "It’s like, what?'

Jerry Pippin and i duscuss the double standard by Rep Trey Radel

GW Bush "i am a painter"

Deputy Chief Information Officer Henry Chao of the Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services stated before  Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing"that up to 40 percent of IT systems supporting the exchange still need to be built.It’s still being developed and tested.” The consumer portion of the website, including account registration, plan shopping and enrolment functions, won’t be affected by the ongoing development effort, but that “back office” functions, including accounting and payment systems, were not yet complete. He called the 40% “just an approximation.”

George Zimmerman was arrested Monday after he cocked and pointed a shotgun at his girlfriend, shattered a glass-top table, then pushed her out of the house and barricaded himself inside after she ordered him to move out.Orlando Sentinel

Two neo-Nazis who carried guns through Leith last weekend while patrolling a town they're attempting to take over are being held without bail following a court appearance in Stanton on Monday afternoon.

Craig Cobb, 62, and Kynan Dutton, 29, are each charged with seven counts of terrorizing Leith residents and on five of those involving guns could face mandatory minimum sentences of two years in jail for each.BT

Zimmerman and Cobb are two in the same Masters of Deceit.

Jerry Pippin previews his JFK special on the events in Dallas,Texas Fifty years and What it means today.

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

Jerry Pippin (jerrypippin.com)the Redstate Liberal and i discuss the press conference and what it means to the American People.

"It's very striking to hear a president talking that way," said presidential historian Michael Beschloss.

As Clinton learned in 2008, a candidate that appeals to voters’ hearts can beat a candidate that appeals to their heads.  And Clinton, for all of her built-in advantages in a 2016 race, will be hard pressed to ever be the heart candidate of the party base. Elizabeth Warren would be that candidate the minute she signals her interest in running. That fact should scare Clinton and her political team.Chris Cillizza WP

“You’ve asked me about the politics. All I can do is take you back to the principle part of this,” she said. “I know what I am in Washington to do: I’m here to fight for hardworking families.”

Elizabeth Warren

I always liked jazz,” Baraka says. “And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that. But when I went to Howard, the great Sterling Brown was a great influence on many of us. A.B. Spellman and I, Toni Morrison … a lot of us sat up under Brown. And so, you can always tell that influence.

“We thought we knew so much about jazz. [Brown] said, ‘Why don’t you come on by my house, I’ll show you some things.’ We went by there, and he had the whole wall full of records, by chronology and genre, and he said to me, ‘That’s your history.’ So it took me a decade to find that those records told a story: Every voice, every title is telling you the story of Afro-American history. I really latched on to that idea. And I went back and started listening to the blues.” Amiri Baraka 

We talk with L A Bill Graham from Rutgers University on the life and works of  Newark's own and author of :Blues People    Professor Amiri Baraka.

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more