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Should We Send Aid?
Stumbled across this blurb over on the Atlantic (which stumbled across it on The Independent Gay Forum). Writer Jamie Kirchick doesn’t think aid money should be given to Uganda, a nation with an entirely contentious relationship with its homosexual citizenry, even going so far as to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death. “When a…
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What? The Public Option Is a Point of Contention?
Somehow, it seems ironic that government-run health care is a matter of contention with Democratic majority of the Senate. Still, that is the reality Harry Reid faces as the health care bill moves to the Senate floor. From The Washington Post: “Despite the success in the test vote, the fragile consensus in the Democratic caucus…
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Congress Spazzes Out on The Obama and Friends
The Congress is none too pleased with the state of the economy and there are those calling for Treasurer Tim-Tim’s resignation. From The Washington Post: “Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home. They also underscored the stiff headwinds that the…
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Man Charged in Shaniya Davis Murder
Ready to shake your head? Mario Andrette McNeill has been charged with the rape and murder of Shaniya Davis, the five-year-old North Carolina girl who’d been reported missing by her mother last week. From The AP: “Authorities said Thursday that Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated before her body was dumped off a rural…
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Oprah to Call It Quits in 2011
A media juggernaut will be hanging up her spurs in 2011 (to possibly pick them back up again on her very own channel). From CNN: “Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday’s “Oprah Winfrey Show” that she is ending her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. CNN affiliate WLS in Chicago, Illinois, said…
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Dad Kills Son for "Inappropriate Contact" with Sister
A story of parenting gone wrong from The Detroit Free Press. “Lazette Cherry wanted only to help her son, Jamar Pinkney Jr., when she called his father, and shared some of the most disturbing news she ever had heard. Jamar, 15, had confessed to her that he had inappropriate contact with his 3-year-old half-sister in…
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Mr. Obama's Sweet Potato Pie
If it’s sweet potato pie that Barack Obama wants, then it is sweet potato pie that Barack Obama must have.
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5 Suspects Arraigned in Bronx Teen Shooting
Rest assured the beef wasn’t worth it and the girl they shot was a completely innocent bystander. Good grief. From WPIX in New York: “Carvette Gentles, 16, of the Bronx has been identified as the shooter. Bronx residents Rohan Francis, 18; Clivie Smith, 19; Dwayne Taylor, 23, and Manhattan resident Cleve Smith, 20 were also…
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Check It Out: AG Holder Says He's Not Scared
Eric Holder ain’t scared. He says as much in showing his confidence for the 9/11 conspirators being properly tried in civilian court. He also says, diplomatically, that those dudes are going to be doing hard time while in custody. Check it out
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