Rev. Keith Butler, founder of the major nondenominational church, World of Faith Internation Christian Center Church in Detroit. He won a race for City Council making him the first Republican to win a City Council seat in Detroit for several decades. Butler has entered into the race to run against Debbie Stabenow for US Senate. he had been seen as an also-ran for the most part, but that all changed with the endorsement of the sitting Republican Attorney-General.

Could Keith Butler be the one to break through the barrier and become the first Black Republican Senator since 1979? It is a possibility, if Keith Butler can seriously break off enough votes out of Detroit then Stabenow, already unpopular, would have a tough time winning re-election. In fact, Butler’s most uphill battle may come in just winning the GOP nomination. Either way, Butler’s religious based political activism may set the model for future GOP outreach to the black community. Most evangelical African Americans take political stands much more closely aligned with the Republican Party as opposed to the Democrats, and if the Democrats continue to wander off into militant secularism look for this to be the begining of the shift of atleast some of the black community back to the GOP.

A British film maker has provided another controversial film to the Cannes festival. This one, called The Power of Nightmares argues that the threat of terrrorism is wildly exagerrated and that US & UK politicians are using the fear of terrorism like they used the overblown fear of communism.

Wow what intelligence, read the full article here. Of course the Reuters article is glowing, but make no mistake these fundamentalist Muslim apologists are the same ilk as those who pretended the Soviet Union was not a threat.

Wow this is way out of left field. Apparently Vicente Fox is outraged by the increasingly “harsh” immigration laws in the US. Did I miss when we decided to actually enforce the law, and what business it was for some other countries President to be mad about it even if we did enforce the law, which we most certainly do not. I would hope this would be a wakeup call to the White House that no matter what they do short of handing over the White House to Mexico and becoming a colony, they will never be able to please the pro-migrant zealots.

They will however alienate most of their own base.