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  • Check It Out: Living Colour Frontman Talks 'Cult of Personality'

    A bit of history on one of rock’s great anthems. A refresher for those unfamiliar

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  • Whaaaat? Barack Obama Has White Relatives?!

    Barack Obama and Warren Buffett are kin folk. From Yahoo News: According to their family trees, the two men who at times shared the stage together during the 2008 presidential campaign are seventh cousins three times removed. Genealogists at ancestry.com announced on Tuesday that Obama and Buffett are related through a 17th century Frenchman named…

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  • DC Same-Sex Marriage Vote Tuesday

    Marriage equality in the District will likely take huge strides today as a vote to legalize gay marriage is expected to pass. From CNN: “The District of Columbia’s city council is scheduled to vote – and expected to pass – a measure that would recognize gay marriages as legal. The city council overwhelmingly passed the…

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  • Illinois Goes Gitmo: State to Receive Guantanamo Detainees

    Gitmo goes stateside. White House officials have announced that some detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be transferred to Thomson orrectional Center in Illinois, the first steps in an effort to shut down the prison complex in Cuba. From CNN: A limited number of detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison will be transferred to a prison…

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  • And the Side Eye Award goes to…

    With all respect to Ed Lover…C’Mon Son!

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  • Check It Out: Lieberman Endorses Medicare Buy-In

    Found this video over on The Plum Line. For a guy who doesn’t care for the current Medicare approach in the reform bill, he certainly seemed convinced 90 days ago. Quoth Lieberman: “My proposals were to basically expand the existing successful public health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid… “When it came to Medicare I was…

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  • Blog Noir: Disappointment Is the Recurrent Black

    Sister Tolda of The Beautiful Struggler read the WaPo profile of Helena Andrews with a tightness in her chest. While surprised at the backlash from the fellas, that the ladies seemed to fall into two camps was even more suprising. The sisters seemed to fall into two camps. Many expressed feelings of solidarity and shared…

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  • Obama Grades Himself During Oprah Christmas Special

    While talking Afghanistan, Obama grades the job he’s done so far as president. School’s in session around the 4-minute mark. The Obamas sit down and reinforce their awesome.

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  • Check It Out: Obama a Tad Lathered Up

    Barack Obama doesn’t appreciate people thinking he doesn’t care about soldier people. In a 60 minutes interview last night, Obama discussed the Afghan War, his belief that 2010 will tell the strategy and that fact that his address at West Point was far from detached. “You know, that was actually, probably, the most emotional speech…

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  • Rwandan Journalist Gets Life Sentence

    Valerie Bemeriki, a Rwandan journalist who publicly encouraged the genocide in 1994, has received a life sentence for her part in the atrocities. From the BBC: In one broadcast attributed to her she told her listeners: “Do not kill those cockroaches with a bullet – cut them to pieces with a machete.” She was one…

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