Weekend open thread
I’m about to hit the road for a good bit of the day. I’ll check back in later 🙂
Why did it take Don Imus to ‘wake up’ Al Sharpton and the hip hop community?
I was just reading this story in the NY Daily News about how Al Sharpton is on a crusade of sorts now to get record companies to stop allowing the use of the “b” the “n” and the “h” words in rap music, and my first thought was, “Wow, look at Al Sharpton – he’s actually doing something to really help the black community for a change.”
Want to help an Iraqi man immigrate to the US?
ST reader Karl blogs about an Iraqi man who worked as a translator in Iraq, helping the US understand and interrogate Iraqis, who wants to immigrate to the US but is running into some red tape:
The countdown to Sarko versus Sego
I wrote back in November 2005 that a “French connection” friend of mine told me to keep my eye on French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy – that Sarko was the ‘man to watch’ whenever the French elections rolled around. Looks like my source was right on, because Sarko is the favorite to win this Sunday’s election in France.
Republican debate transcript
MSNBC has the transcript to last night’s debate posted. It looks a lot smoother than it actually was.