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BREAKING: Air America Signs Off
Air America Media is going off the air effective immediately. From the company’s website It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the…
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Chachi Catches Heat for Throwing First Lady Shade
Scott Baio, who somehow has time in his busy schedule to tweet, has been the target of Twitter hate after a tweet concerning First Lady Michelle Obama. From Popeater The actor, a staunch Republican, tweeted an unflattering photo of Obama and asked, “WOW He wakes up to this every morning.” Before long, he was receiving…
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Telethon Won't Let Kanye Be Great!
In honor of Kanye and his blog style, The Buzz will write this post IN ALL CAPS. AFTER HIS MTV SHENANIGANS AND CONSIDERING THE LAST TIME HE WAS ON A TELELTHON, GEORGE CLOONEY AND MTV DECLINED TO ALLOW KANYE WEST TO BE GREAT AT THE TELETHON RAISING MONEY FOR HAITIAN RELIEF. FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE…
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Check It Out: Playwright Hopes Quake Can Unite Island
Found this clip over on Urban Daily. Playwright David Wright, author of Platanos and Collard Greens, is hoping the tragedy in Haiti can unite the island’s Haitian and Dominican populations
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Supreme Court Fights for Rich People's Rights!
For years, federal campaign spending limits prevented corporations from influencing elections. Those days are over. Today, the Supreme Court has rolled back campaign spending limits for corporations. Now, after years of persecution, corporations can spending freely to support or oppose candidates for President or Congress. From The AP: By a 5-4 vote, the court on…
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Read/ React: "How to Help Rebuild Haiti"
Over on Foreign Policy, five experts tackle the question of what needs to be done to rebuild Haiti. A snippet from each below: Paul Collier and Jean-Louis Warnholz – “Endow a Multibillion-Dollar Haiti Fund” In Haiti, neither relief nor reconstruction will be enough: Restoration should not be the goal. The earthquake is not the first…
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Prez Blames Economic Pain for Senate Loss
Why’d Scott Brown win? President Obama explained his theory Wednesday. From The Washington Post President Obama on Wednesday blamed the Democrats’ stunning loss of their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate on his administration’s failure to give voice to the economic frustrations of the middle class, a disconnect that White House aides vowed to quickly address…
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Pay Up, Kwame!
Lessons to the text message generation: It can cost you BIG. Disgraced Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been ordered to fork over almost $320,000 after a judge found out that Kilpatrick had hidden money away following his 2008 conviction that required he pay a $1 million restitution. From The Detroit News udge David Groner ordered…
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Remember When Gitmo Was Supposed to Close?
While perusing Black Snob, The Buzz was reminded that a year ago this week, President Obama vowed to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. One year later, that has yet to happen, though its closure can’t be counted out just yet. Or can it?
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White Men *Can* Jump
Out of the “stranger than fiction” file from The Augusta Chronicle, it appears there’s a new basketball league trying to gain a foothold. It’s hook? Featuring only white American players. Yessss The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta…
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