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Aug 31 2009
I just came back from a journey abroad. My travels took me to two continents. But it was one question that followed me all through: what happened to America? Those stuck on the superficial level will tell you that it is Obama that happened to America....
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Aug 30 2009
I was in the airplane, flying from Lagos to Paris, when I heard the news that Senator Edward Kennedy passed away. I had gone to Nigeria to burry my father. At Charles de Gaulle international Airport, I discovered that Robert Novak and Don Hewitt had...
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Aug 10 2009
“What happened to America?” asked a regular visitor to the United States. He has not been here in a year. He was hoping to see Hope and Change but instead he saw a country in despair. “What did y’all do to my beloved America?” he asked...
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Aug 6 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009: I am back at school studying how to write. It is a very expensive proposal. I recently saw my student loan bill till date and it was not funny. I may not be able to pay back the money for another ten years. Which is the more...
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Jul 31 2009
Now that the ‘beer summit’ is over, let us look at what really happened when Prof. Henry Gates Jr. came in contact with Cambridge police officer, Sergeant James Crowley. In one sentence – the post- racial America was aborted. It used to...
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Jul 30 2009
Life is not fair. Why is Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. the one at the White House having beer when in actual fact, I am smarter than him? Like Collin Powell and other minorities in America, I know there is racial profiling. I have been a victim of it....
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Jul 21 2009
I understand that Republicans are desperately searching for a way to break Obama. Sen. Jim DeMint while speaking on Obama’s healthcare plan said “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” Well,...
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Jul 18 2009
Chances are that you have read, somewhere, the obituary of longtime CBS Evening News anchor, Walter Cronkite. He died yesterday at the age of 92. When Glenn Beck, the host of Fox News’ Glenn Beck show dies in 2056, what will his obituary say? I...
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Jul 17 2009
[For Hon. J. C. Okonkwo (1932 -2009)] When life is done With its interruptions, Our journey continues. Only those afraid of knowing Have trepidation about leaving. Hugging the sky Is yesterday’s dream, Taking our place Along heaven’s receiving...
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Jul 14 2009
You can distill all the arguments of today to this simple line: it is a fight for the future of the United States. Be it deficit, immigration, health insurance, environment, education or what have you, the future of the United States is the driving...
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