The Sun Finds a New Bandwagon to Jump On

This happens to be the "Make Barack Obama less Attractive to Black Voters with Meaningless 'Research' " bandwagon. Let me just say, its one hell of an ugly and silly bandwagon.

The whole dust up is about new "research" showing Obama's relatives may have once owned slaves. This is the same research that the writer of which has attached this disclaimer to:

"The following material ... should not be considered either exhaustive or authoritative, but rather as a first draft."

Well, I am so glad it made it into a Sun, in that case.

The article itself spans two pages, overkill I would say for what is admittedly a rumor. White people once owned slaves in America. Anyone with any sort of white American blood faces the chance of their ancestors once being slave owners. Not the best conversation starter at a Hopkin's Frat Party, but still, a widely known and undisputed fact.

And what if it isn't a rumor? It still means nothing at all. The only thing it accomplishes is to make more voters, particularly Black voters in Maryland, call into question Senator Obama's "blackness." I find this tactic a little more than offensive, and all readers of the Sun should as well.

The Sun Fails to Look Ahead On Global Warming

The Sun's Tom Pelton, this past Sunday asked Baltimore to look at it's future. Mr. Pelton asks that we consider floods, the migration or extinction of local species, and smog filled air as a distinct part the near future of Maryland.

Mr. Pelton considers this disastrous future and concludes that we, as a State, can and should do nothing. This is completely incorrect, and it's an attitude that fails to look to future of both our State and our Nation.

Whether you accept or deny the established science supporting Global Warming as a man made problem it is harder to deny the genuine social, scientific and political movement that now swirls around the issue. I can say with some certainty that soon enough we will seen Federal action on carbon emissions, "clean car requirements", etc.

Maryland would do well to play the game and get a head start on what will possibly become a state inspired program. Why let Arnold and California be the innovators when it comes to combating global warming at the state level? Maryland has it's own challenges to deal with when it comes to becoming carbon-neutral. Why should we wait to have the Feds impose their own ideas on us? Lets get a head start and create our own Maryland focused program for combating greenhouse gases.

If Maryland takes the initiative, we will have the chance to do things our own way, and to give businesses in Maryland a head start in what I am sure will become another lucrative virtual market, carbon emissions trading. Be warned, the global warming legislation will be coming. It is Maryland's choice whether we will be in control of our own carbon-neutral destiny or not.