Kris B.

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Is The Obama Administration Under Siege From All Sides?

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 2:46 pm
Despite the intense political media focus on Sarah Palin this week, the Brown Man found time to talk to my man Sean Yoes, a senior reporter at The Afro American. Yoes is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO Fi...
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Queen High Flush: Round Of Senate "Holdem" Results In Healthcare Debate

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 7:22 am
Senator Mary Landrieau deserves an Oscar for her performance leading up to last night's Senate vote on cloture to officially open the Senate floor to debate over the long awaited healthcare legisl...
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Brown Man Has His Say On BBC Radio

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 6:18 am
I joined a panel yesterday on "World Have Your Say", a BBC Radio show that focuses on hot topics from around the world, to try to answer the question "if it’s not racism, why do some Americans hate ...
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Suffering In The Name Of Freedom

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 7:40 am
It's bad for this president to bow to the Japanese, but it's good for the last president to kiss the Saudis. With that kind of logic, I'd hate to think what President Obama should do for ...
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Senor Dobbs: Adios!

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 6:48 pm
It just so happens that I was on the phone yesterday with a staffer from www.RedBrownandBlue.com, asking her about the reception they'd gotten from the black bloggers they'd reached out to rec...
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Watching By The People: The Election of Barack Obama

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 7:45 am
I've been toying around with some comments on the Obama campaign documentary that aired last week, but every time I got started on them, something else came up. Election Night. The Fort Hood sho...
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Can Kasim Reed Leave Maynard Jackson "Amen" Corner Out Of Mayor's Race?

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 6:55 am
Miles Davis might have had the right idea. Sometimes you just need to turn your back to the audience and blow. Bwwwwwwaaaap! What is going on behind the scenes in the city of Atlanta's mayoral ...
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Saturday Night Special: Healthcare Bill Passes House

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 3:20 am
It looks like the Affordable Healthcare For America Act, better known as the "healthcare act" if you support it, or "Obamacare" if you are against it, will live to see another day as it moved forward ...
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The Silent Halls Of Death

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 6:38 am
It is a cruel kind of sadness that the families of the dead at Fort Hood will have to endure. I would not want to see the story of the military gunman who opened fire on his fellow soldiers yesterday...
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Political Spin: The Media's Election Night After Party

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 6:28 am
The perennial stereotype of the horse racing gambler has been recounted in books and movies as the kind of person who is able to see attributes in the horses that they inevitably lose money on that ju...
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Why Is Newt Gingrich On The Cover Of My Alumni Magazine?

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 7:10 pm
Newt Gingrich and I have the same alma mater. I had no idea that we both graduated from Emory University. The publication the school put out for alumni was in the mail today. Emory Magazine, wh...
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AUDIO for November 1st AFRO/First Edition Interview

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 4:04 pm
This is the audio from the radio interview I did with Sean Yoes on November 1st on WEAA, an NPR afiliate in Baltimore. Healthcare reform, Joe Lieberman's latest antics, the race in New York Distr...
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AFRO First Edition: Sean Yoes And Kris Broughton Talk Politics

Kris B. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 6:01 am
Between all of the pomp and circumstance of homecoming weekend at S.'s undergraduate alma mater, I found time to get back on the radio for an interview with Sean Yoes, a senior reporter at The Afr...
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Black Dynamite And The Atlanta Mayor's Race

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 6:00 am
S. and I flew the coop for a few days this morning. I was riding shotgun in the AM through the slow as molasses Atlanta traffic after we dropped the dog off. Seeing him enter the facility is always ...
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Joe Lieberman: There's An App For That

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 7:37 am
After spending a couple of hours wrestling with Microsoft's latest version of Outlook to try to get it to do something it used to do - switch between multiple email identities with two simple clic...
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Where Should I Begin Today?

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 6:38 am
Where should I begin today? I'm not so sure. But that's never stopped me before, so let's get this thing started with the topic that is on the tip of everybody's tongue in - healthca...
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I Didn't Vote To Have A Weatherman In The White House

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 3:28 pm
Sometimes, when you are playing both sides against the middle, you can forget where you are. But since Barack Obama is supposed to be one of the smartest presidents we've ever had, I won't be...
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Colson Whitehead Reading In Atlanta TONIGHT

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 2:40 pm
S. and I are going to see Colson Whitehead tonight at 6:30 pm at a reading on the campus of the Atlanta branch of Savannah College of Art and Design. The last time I saw him here was about five years...
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Wall Street's Laughing Hyena's Hysterical Over Record Profits

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 7:14 am
One of the more annoying things I've been hearing the last few weeks is the phrase "free enterprise", especially as it pertains to the way modern businesses are supposedly being run these days. P...
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Police Chiefs Gone Wild

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 10:45 am
Chief Wayne Yates Chief James Preacher I've been in South Carolina for the last couple of days in my hometown, a small burg that doesn't have any outlet I know of that carries the New York T...
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Rush Limbaugh Plays The Victim After Rejection From NFL

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 5:49 am
I am back in my hometown again this week, which means that I couldn't help but listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show again yesterday as I drove down the highway from Atlanta to South Carolina. As I wa...
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Wanda Sykes: "That's Not What We Do"

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 12:53 am
I guess I should have been watching the political pundits battle it out tonight after the historic vote on healthcare reform that took place in the Senate today. Instead, I watched Wanda Sykes new HB...
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Pirate Fest Pulls Brown Man Away From Politics For A Few Days

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 9:22 pm
The Brown Man went to Pirate Fest at Tybee Island last weekend and he is still tired. No one who attended seemed to be concerned, at least for the weekend, about politics at all. The restaurants w...
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Sarah Palin Is Giving Obama Foreign Policy Advice?

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 7:13 am
Sarah Palin is giving President Obama foreign policy advice from her Facebook account... ...and the news media is eating up every word her ghostwriter writes. In a nation of three hundred million pe...
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Glen Beck Targets Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 1:56 am
Glenn Beck's latest witchhunt target is Valerie Jarrett, the special adviser to the president/homegirl to the First Lady/dyed-in-the-wool Chicagoan who is one of Barack Obama's closest profess...
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General McChrystal Needs To Run For President If He Doesn't Like His Orders

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 6:19 am
General Stanley McChrystal needs to decide whether or not he wants to run for president. Once he figures that out, he needs to pack his bags. There are a number of ways built into military proto...
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Why Me And Chris Rock Think Roman Polanski Needs To Be Behind Bars

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 8:12 pm
I hadn't really formulated any thoughts on this Roman Polanski thing other than the usual one I have when someone famous wants a pass for a crime they did commit - what would happen to ME if I as ...
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Will Florida Brawler Inspire Democratic Crybabies?

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 5:23 am
Alan Grayson (D) Orlando How do you get everything you ever asked for as a political party - popular president, significant majority in the House, a majority a hair away from achieving critical mas...
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Blind Arrogance: Governor David Paterson

Kris B. posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 6:15 am
Sean Yoes, the host of the AFRO First Edition talk show I appear on from time to time at WEAA, shot me an email a couple of days ago asking for my thoughts on the recent dust up between Obama and New ...
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I'm No Foreign Policy Expert...

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 10:42 pm
I'm no foreign policy expert... ...in fact, I know next to nothing about what kinds of policies we have regarding individual nations with whom we are either allies or enemies. But after watchi...
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What If Rush Limbaugh Ran The Country?

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 6:55 pm
On the way to South Carolina on Friday to see my mother, who is recovering from hip replacement surgery, I listened to talk radio. I got to hear Glen Beck, Neal Boortz, and Rush Limbaugh, all of them...
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Is Barack Obama More Like W.E.B. DuBois or Booker T. Washington?

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 27, 2009, 11:58 am
Last week, before rolling out to my hometown of Orangeburg, SC, I did another radio interview with Sean Yoes, who is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Balt...
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Has Anyone Seen Any Dems Besides Obama This Week?

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 11:22 am
Or last week, for that matter? I know why you haven't seen me until now this week - between my sick, my shut in, and my recently departed family members, I really haven't been able to really ...
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If You Call Me By My Real Name...

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 20, 2009, 11:53 am
9/12 Washington Tea Party Picture by NineTwelvePhotos If you call me by my real name, the legal middle name that I was given at birth, I won't hear you at first, because it is used so infrequentl...
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Staring Wide Eyed At The Evening News

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 6:14 am
9/12 Washington Tea Party Pictures by NineTwelvePhotos These white Americans you are seeing on your TV every night hollering and yelling and screaming about our president's Kenyan roots need to b...
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Kanye West Was Jackass Way Before President Obama Said So

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 10:27 am
I woke up this morning to see President Barack Obama's face next to Kanye West's face on Huffington Post, underneath the headline Obama: Kanye Is A "Jackass". I wouldn't give a damn mysel...
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"I Got 99 problems, But Tea Baggers Ain't One"

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 12:17 am
Dayum! Maybe Michelle Malkin meant 2 million INVISIBLE protestors showed up. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you've got a two million word essay here today. See you Tuesday.
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WEAA Features Kris Broughton AGAIN This Sunday Night On "First Edition"

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 13, 2009, 6:06 pm
Last Friday, in between moving the Resident Diva into her dorm and getting a new air conditioning unit installed at home, I did another radio interview with Sean Yoes, who is the host of "The WEAA/AFR...
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The Resident Diva Goes To College

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2009, 7:45 am
It is an ending and a beginning, all in one day. It is a ritual that has become as American as baseball and apple pie. Moving away from home and into a college dorm is the beginning, for many teenag...
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Rounding Up Support For Healthcare Reform "Like Herding Cats"

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 12:04 am
I fast forwarded through the president's address to Congress on the healthcare initiative last night, only to discover that the DVR that comes with our cable service had only recorded an hour of t...
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Where Are The White People With Good Sense?

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 11:02 pm
... stay on the curb of his cul-de-sacs for the rest of his life. Since our TV producers can't seem to come up with any other creative ways to get you ... claim that the truth is what they ar...
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WEAA Features Kris Broughton This Sunday Night On "First Edition"

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 9:06 pm
Last Friday I did another thirty minute radio interview with Sean Yoes, who is the host of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Baltimore's WEAA-FM (88.9 FM), which a...
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Audio Of First Edition Interview With Sean Yoes September 13th

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 8:19 pm
This is the audio from the second interview the radio interview I did with Sean Yoes that aired on WEAA on September 13th. My blog article "Where Are All The White People With Good Sense?" was the to...
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Reading The Healthcare Bill Part 2

Kris B. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 5:50 am
I figured I'd pick up where I left off reading "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009", better known to the rest of us as "the healthcare bill". The style in which the document was ...
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Reading The Healthcare Bill

Kris B. posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 6:06 am
I've been beating around the bush long enough. It's time to tackle "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009", better known to the rest of us as "the healthcare bill". The beginni...
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"The Windshield Is Bigger Than The Rearview Mirror"

Kris B. posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 2:13 pm
My buddy from Alabama called my today, upset at a local newspaper columnist who had painstakingly written an account of the healthcare protest he attended yesterday that, according to him, completely ...
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Picking Up A Prescription Turns Into A Healthcare Conversation

Kris B. posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 4:20 pm
Thursday, while I was in the drugstore, picking up a prescription for S., I ended up in a conversation about healthcare reform with the pharmacist. It was early evening, a time when most of the peopl...
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"Republicans Are Struggling Right Now To Find The Great White Hope"

Kris B. posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 8:01 am
"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope." Rep. Lynn Jenkins, (R) Kansas August 2009 You probably won't see this on your TV much, since Ted Kennedy retrospectives wil...
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Maybe We Should Follow These Health Care Protestors Home

Kris B. posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 7:06 am
Bob Collier of Montezuma, Georgia Maybe what some of us need to do is go to these town hall meetings, not to ask any questions, but with the express intention of following some of these people who ar...
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Will The Real (Chris) Kris Broughton Please Stand Up?

Kris B. posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 7:51 pm
I was tooling around the internet Sunday night after chronicling my weekend adventure with our local healthcare protestors, clicking on a few links here and there, when I saw the picture that had tick...
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