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Buffalo Bills Receiver Stevie Johnson Says He Wasn't Blaming God for Loss
Fresh from our “Is this for real or for play-play?” file, Buffalo Bills receiver Stevie Johnson (13) is playing down the post-game Tweet he sent after losing the game to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. Johnson dropped the winning touchdown pass in a 16-19 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shortly after leaving the stadium,…
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Maxine Waters Slams House Ethics Committee
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is admonishing the House Ethics Committee for “lacking decency.” The storied congresswoman says that the committee denied her “due process” and had a case so weak that they had to postpone it indefinitely. The Ethics Committee stated that it was postponing the case in…
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger Lands at Sirius XM Satellite Radio
Say what you will about controversy and talk-show hosts, but it seems to us that they always land on their feet. Billy Bush, Don Imus, Howard Stern, Bill Maher, Rush Limbaugh and now you can add Dr. Laura Schlessinger to the list. The talk-show host who admonished an African-American caller while using the n-word 11…
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Cyber Monday Continues to Attract Consumers
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Cyber Monday sales are expected to pass $900 million this year and could reach $1 billion, which would be the first time ever that online sales have topped that mark on a single day, said comScore Inc. Last year, Cyber Monday sales were $887 million, and the biggest…
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The High Cost of HIV/AIDS to the Black Community
Excerpt: As World AIDS Day approaches, black advocates say the deadly disease continues to inflict a staggering human and financial toll on the African American community. The AIDS epidemic has claimed the lives of more than 230,000 over the past three decades. And although black Americans constitute just 12 percent of the U.S. population, they…
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Rio de Janeiro: Photos From Last Week's Drug War
You’ve heard the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Well, during the Thanksgiving holiday, war broke out between hundreds of drug dealers and police officers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Various photographers captured photographic images of the conflict. In a shantytown complex dubbed Complexo do Alemão, drug gangs attacked police stations and staged…
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Obama Freezes Pay for Federal Workers
President Barack Obama has announced that he is freezing pay for federal workers for two years. Citing growing concerns about the deficit and Republican pressure about federal pay and benefits, the president announced that he will stop pay increases for most of the 2 million people who work for the federal government. The freeze applies…
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U.S. Senators Call for Criminal Charges in Latest WikiLeaks Incident
Who would have thunk it? Members from opposite aisles of Congress are joining together to denounce the latest WikiLeaks debacle, in which the whistleblower released 250,000 classified documents detailing information from U.S. diplomats. The Telegraph reports that Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Republican, told Fox News, “Leaking the material is deplorable … the…
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AIDS Activist Plans to Row Boat From Africa to NYC to Fight Disease
The New York Daily News is reporting that AIDS activist Victor Mooney is rowing a boat solo from Africa to New York as part of his campaign to fight AIDS. Mooney has already attempted to do this two previous times and failed, although he is determined to make the 5,000-mile journey safely. Mooney, 45, is…
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Oregon Muslims Fear Retribution After Plot
The Associated Press is reporting that patrols around mosques and other Islamic sites in Portland have been stepped up as Muslim expressed fears of retribution, days after a Somali-American man was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during the city’s Christmas-tree lighting ceremony. The move followed a fire Sunday at…
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