• Check It Out: Censoring the 'N' Word is Wack

    Got this video from Washington City Paper’s The Sexist and was expecting something a bit more outrageous, but you can judge for yourself. You don’t have to agree with his religious beliefs, but the guy’s point is not the worst ever, though The Buzz might be inclined to argue referring to people who definitely exist…

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  • BREAKING: Nidal Malik Hasan Charged

    Nidal Malik Hasan, this is the beginning of your dirt nap. From CNN: “Maj. Nidal Hasan will face 13 preliminary charges of premeditated murder stemming from last week’s shooting at Fort Hood Army Post in Texas, U.S. military sources say. The charges are expected to be announced at a noon news conference at Fort Hood,…

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  • Check It Out: Rep. Steve King Calls Out Jarrett, "Gangster Government"

    The Buzz is disappointed in Rep. King. Not for what he says in the clip below, but because he’s biting off other people. As Think Progress points out, he’s more than capable of coming up with his own material For example, he has said Obama will make America a “totalitarian dictatorship,” that Obama was raised…

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  • BREAKING: Obama Announces December Job Creation Summit

    President Obama wants to put his shoe in joblessness. The White House announced Thursday that in December, it plans on holding a summit to tackle the joblessness issue. From The Washington Post: “President Barack Obama says he’s organizing a wide-ranging White House jobs summit to “talk about how we can work together” to create jobs.…

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  • Condi's Comeback? Rice Rumored to Be Launching Consulting Firm

    Looking for a do-over? After the tumult of the Bush years, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley may be taking their professional expertise into the private sector. From TPM Media: In September, the RiceHadley Group LLC was registered as a business in California, under a San Francisco address.…

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  • Fort Hood: Who Messed Up?

    Questions swirl in the days following the deadly shooting at Ft. Hood and people are getting their pointing fingers ready. The main question: Who failed where and how did it happen? From the Washington Post: [F]inger-pointing in Washington intensified Tuesday about whether officials at several agencies had failed to coordinate as they tracked the suspect’s…

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  • Chicago Woman Charged with Murder After Running Teen Over with Car

    Timera Branch’s son got in a fight and, as any parent might, she felt the need to intervene. Branch, 33, did so one night later by finding John Keyes—the boy who’d fought with her son—and running him down with her car as he tried to run away. After having done so, she watched as people…

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  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Battling Leukemia

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer is currently battling with chronic myeloid leukemia that was diagnosed last December. From ESPN: “Abdul-Jabbar is taking an oral medication for the disease. He is a paid spokesman for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, which makes a drug that treats the illness. “I’ve never been a person to…

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  • Check It Out: Obama Honors Fallen at Fort Hood

    Obama honoring the thirteen soldiers killed at the Fort Hood. From MSNBC: “One by one, President Barack Obama spoke the names and told the stories Tuesday of the 13 people slain in the Fort Hood shooting rampage, honoring their memories even as he denounced the “twisted logic” that led to their deaths. “No faith justifies…

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  • Dropped Call: White House Communications Director Steps Down

    Anita Dunn is calling it quits. Dunn, the White communications director who made the (reasonable though regrettable) assertion that Fox News was a wing of the Republican Party, has stepped down from the position. Taking her place will be her deputy, Dan Pfeiffer. From the Washington Post: “Dunn, a longtime Democratic media consultant, took over…

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