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Iran Rounding Up Foreign Nationals in Connection with Protests
The haps on the caps from CNN: -The Iranian government has arrested several foreign nationals, some holding British passports in connection with the post-elections unrest -Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ezhei told reporters that some with links to the West and Israel had planned bombings ahead of the June 12 presidential election -Mohseni-Ezhei said to reporters of…
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Spike's Woman Problem
Cinematically speaking, it’s one of those “oh, that scene” moments: suffocating heat, an ice cube tray, Rosie Perez’s naked, heaving breasts. An exceedingly tight close-up of Rosie Perez’s naked, heaving breasts. And you’ve got Spike Lee—clearly enjoying his auteur/actor privileges—rubbing an ice cube over said breasts, paying crooning homage to “the right nipple” and “the…
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UPDATE: Nine Killed in DC Metro Crash
Nine people have been confirmed dead in the DC metro crash from yesterday. Check out the WASHINGTON POST for ongoing coverage of this tragedy. POSTED THIS MORNING: A collision between two rush hour commuter trains resulted in the deaths of at least six people and injured seventy-six others in the late afternoon Monday. The accident…
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Prosecutors Say Burris Didn't Lie, Merely Bungled Re-Telling the Truth
Senator Roland Burris is no longer under investigation for perjury. According to BET, Illinois state prosecutors say that though the senator was not terribly open about conversations with disgraced governor Rod Blagojevich’s brother Robert, he didn’t lie about said conversations. Said State Attorney John Schmidt in a letter: “It is clear from the conversation that…
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God's Work? Baptist Minister Prays for Obama's Death
From the mouth of Rev. Wiley Drake, a minister in the Southern Baptist church, regarding the president: “If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around, I am asking God to enforce imprecatory prayers that are throughout the Scripture that would cause him death.” According to the Baltimore Afro American,…
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Justice Thomas Dissents
1 Cite as: 557 U. S. ____ (2009) Opinion of THOMAS, J. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 08–322 NORTHWEST AUSTIN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DIS- TRICT NUMBER ONE, APPELLANT v. ERIC H.HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL, ET AL. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA [June 22, 2009] JUSTICE THOMAS,…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Exempts Texas District from Voting Rights Act
From the New York Times (via the AP): “The Supreme Court has ruled narrowly in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas governing authority from a key provision of the civil rights law. The court, with only one justice in partial dissent, avoided the major constitutional questions raised in the…
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The Media Needs to Stop Fawning Over Obama
Barack Obama enjoys his relationship with the media and certainly uses it to his advantage. But it’s reaching ‘Fatal Attraction’-like levels and if the groupie love trend from the media doesn’t stop soon, it’ll only be a matter of time before he comes home to find his pet rabbit boiling on the stove. The sometimes-troubling…
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Buggin' Out on DTRT's Haters
In this vintage footage from 1990, film critic Armond White sounds off on the mainstream coverage of Do the Right Thing, dissecting how American racial angst affected the film’s critical reception. Arguably the country’s most famous black film critic, Armond White has served as staff film critic at the New York Press since 1994. He…
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Black Immigrants Overrepresented in the Ivy League
Blacks native to America—or JBs are we are sometimes wont to call them—are not well-represented in the Ivy League. Black immigrant student or those who parents are immigrants are, by contrast, overrepresented in relative to their figures in the general population. Few are aware of this fact because both groups are ostensibly Black. On the…
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