The wagons are officially circling around Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele. On the heels of reports that the members of the RNC are plotting to have him removed, former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis announced this morning that he will run to be chairman of the RNC. Anuzis, who also ran for the…

Most Americans know Manny Pacquiao as a boxer, but he is much more than that. He is also a congressman in the Philippines. Pacquiao, who will fight Antonio Margarito on Saturday at Cowboys Stadium, is focused on improving the livelihoods of those in the Philippines as he remembers his own impoverished youth. The Los Angeles…

First The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct. Now this. Perhaps Amazon doesn’t know, or maybe it doesn’t care, but the distribution of products that appeal to prurient interests of pedophiles is not a good look. MSNBC.com is reporting that books and videos depicting prepubescent Eastern European and Asian girls,…

It seems that many voters either didn’t care or weren’t paying attention to what it actually means with the Republican wins during the last midterm elections. Voters will not receive unemployment benefits, middle-class Americans will be taxed higher while wealthy Americans will have tax cuts, and job creation will be slower. In addition to those…

Excerpt (Frank Deford): A desperately favorite NCAA punishment is to require the offending college to forfeit the games it won sometime in its dark past. Oh, that smarts. That really scares cheaters. Changing old record books is like telling you that the vacation you had in Jamaica four years ago, when you were drinking rum,…

The CEO of an Atlanta-based data-security company was charged after police said he paid for sex with a child prostitute. The victim was only 12- years-old when she was “pimped out” to Reflex Security CEO Peter Privateer in early March 2008, according to a Gwinnett County police report. The victim said she was taken to…

Black America Web is reporting that the father of a black student has sued a Detroit-area school district, claiming that his daughter was racially harassed by a fifth-grade teacher’s reading aloud from a book about slavery. The suit claims that Jala Petree’s teacher at Margaret Black Elementary School in Sterling Heights read excerpts from Julius…

Last week, Arizona voters passed Proposition 107, which outlawed the use of affirmative action in state hiring and admissions processes, by a 60-40 margin. The state that brought us SB 1070, the harshest anti-immigrant piece of legislation to come down in recent memory; and HB 2281, the state’s new ethnic-studies ban, reminds everyone that if…

Fresh from our “Lawd, Jesus” file, a lawsuit has been filed against Jackson Public Schools in Mississippi on behalf of three Murrah High basketball players who say they were physically and verbally abused by coach Marlon Dorsey. Coach Dorsey has admitted to “whipping” students, although corporal punishment has been banned in Jackson schools since 1991.…