Today’s video of the day is a Philly classic. Peep the teenage (and slim!) Jill Scott as she lives the “Glamorous Life”!!!!

Shout out to Cool C. Hold ya head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Thanks to AllHipHop.com for the inspiration)

Today, I’ll be appearing on Fox News’ “The Live Desk w/ Martha Maccallum. We will be discussing the news topics of the day. The show airs live from 1:00 to 2:00. My segment runs from 1:30-2:00.

John Ridley, author of the now-infamous “Nigger” article for Esquire magazine, recently challenged Ehrenstein’s “Magic Negro” piece in the LA Times. Although I think he’s too rough on left-leaning Obama critics –some of us half principled and important critiques!!– he makes some interesting observations.

The Hocus Pocus ‘igger
By John Ridley

My wife hates it when I use the word nigger.

Other people hate it, too.

I don’t care about other people.

Love my wife.

From now on I will use the word ‘igger. Mostly.

But that’s not really what I’m writing about.

I’m writing about the bizarre spectacle of left-leaning blacks cannibalizing Barack Obama, which I had long thought had reached its apogee.

Silly me.

Whether blacks vote Obama or not – I don’t yet know if I’ll be tossing my vote his way – there oughta be a certain glee that comes from seeing a black man build on other’s success and move toward a higher plain. Isn’t that how we’re supposed to function as blacks: each of us scaling the ladder, laying down a rung for those subsequent to us? But the self-haters don’t see it that way. They keep stockpiling future weapons of idiocy to go after the guy.

Why, I don’t know. The partisan hacks and far right attack poodles are in a prime position to do the work for them without being so obvious with their self-loathing.

But same as bounty hunters tracking freed men, the enablers of our race keep going after Obama.

Or, at least in a remix of an old song, they’re now going after whites that’d dare support a black man.

Some guy writing for the LA Times – and, yeah, he’s got a name but I’ll be damned if I’m going to give him any ink – whipped up a piece that actually begins with some interesting insight: defining the “Magic Negro;” a postmodern liberal caricature in fiction and film. A nearly angelic black who just shows in a story for no other reason than to guide white people to a better place through his innate goodness.

It is an overused character – often played, as the piece’s author notes, by such greats as “Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith” – who makes most ticket buying blacks want to puke. Show up, dispense a few yokle-isms, make whitey happy, assuage their liberal guilt, then get out of their suburb before sundown.

And I’m with the author to that point. It’s really a smart piece. Then the cat F’s it up by saying that Obama’s nothing but a “Magical Negro” incarnate and any white that casts a ballot for him is basically tossing him a guilt-lined sympathy vote.

For the rest of the story, click here.

Since 1972, U.S. taxpayers have spent well over $20 billion enforcing criminal marijuana laws and 16.5 million people have been arrested. It’s time to put an end to this waste.

It’s Been an ‘All Out War’ on Pot Smokers for 35 Years
By Paul Armentano 

Thirty-five years ago this month, a congressionally mandated commission on U.S. drug policy did something extraordinary: They told the truth about marijuana.

On March 22, 1972, the National Commission on Marihuana (sic) and Drug Abuse — chaired by former Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond P. Shafer — recommended Congress amend federal law so that the use and possession of pot would no longer be a criminal offense. State legislatures, the commission added, should do likewise.

“[T]he criminal law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal possession even in the effort to discourage use,” concluded the commission, which included several conservative appointees of then-President Richard Nixon. “It implies an overwhelming indictment of the behavior, which we believe is not appropriate. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only with the greatest reluctance.

“… Therefore, the commission recommends … [that the] possession of marihuana for personal use no longer be an offense, [and that the] casual distribution of small amounts of marihuana for no remuneration, or insignificant remuneration, no longer be an offense.”

Nixon, true to his “law-and-order” roots, shelved the report — announcing instead that when it came to weed, “We need, and I use the word ‘all out war’ on all fronts.” For the last 35 years, that’s what we’ve had.

Consider this: Since the Shafer Commission issued its recommendations:

Approximately 16.5 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana violations — more than 80 percent of them on minor possession charges.
U.S. taxpayers have spent well over $20 billion enforcing criminal marijuana laws, yet marijuana availability and use among the public remains virtually unchanged.
Nearly one-quarter of a million Americans have been denied federal financial aid for secondary education because of anti-drug provisions to the Higher Education Act. Most of
these applicants were convicted of minor marijuana possession offenses.

Total U.S. marijuana arrests increased 165 percent during the 1990s, from 287,850 in 1991
to well over 700,000 in 2000, before reaching an all-time high of nearly 800,000 in 2005. However, according to the government’s own data, this dramatic increase in the number of persons arrested for pot was not associated with any reduction in the number of new users, any reduction in marijuana potency, or any increases in the black market price of marijuana.

Currently, one in eight inmates incarcerated for drug crimes is behind bars for pot, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 billion per year

For the rest of the story, click here.