NBA great, Charles Barkley sat down for an interview with Campbell Brown on CNN October 27, 2008 to talk politics and whether racism will once again divide us. Charles pointed out that race will be a factor in the November 4th elections. As he puts it, people will not tell pollsters that they will vote based on race. He further stated that some white people will vote for Obama on personal economic issues in the polling booth, totally disregarding race but they will not confess this to their friends.

Winnie Cooper recently asked if rap is getting lazy. This is a good question to ask not only from the rappers' point of view but the fans as well. If you ask me, the problem ain't if Rap is Getting Lazy but are we the music fans getting too frig gin' gullible?

We sit and wait to be forced fed the BS that mainstream is dishing out. The rappers observe that our culture has been watered down with nursery rhymes and that this is what's HOT right now. So they think that in order to get noticed it makes sense to jump on one of these tracks and try to show off their skills.

Barack Obama's audacity of hope is already starting to take shape. It seems that people around the world are indeed listening to Obama and are ready to take action based on his sound ideas.

A new car that runs on compressed air has been researched and developed in Nice, France by the inventor of this technology, Mr. Guy Negre founder and CEO of MDI SA, a company headquartered in Luxembourg.

I have been following the elections fervently to watch, listen and evaluate the plans that each candidate - Obama vs. McCain have for our country. Like most fans of rap music that deals with real life social issues, I have been feeling my own share of depression over the economic issues that have developed.

The political man-made economic crisis was fueled by deregulation and sub-prime mortgage problems that developed from around mid-February and earlier. The $700B financial bailout of wall street banks as last-ditched effort to save the stock market and our entire capitalist system from collapse was a source of my growing aggravation.

This is to publicly congratulate Paul Krugman, U.S. economist that won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity." Krugman was born on February 28, 1953 in Long Island, NY State, United States.

He has taught at Yale University, the London School of Economics, Stanford and MIT where he also earned his Ph.D in 1997 and is well known in academia for his work in trade theory. He has written text explanations about currency crises and the New Trade Theory. Altogether he has penned some 20 books and several papers in professional journals.