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  • Pedophile Advice Book Stirs Controversy

    The latest controversy burning up the Internet is the availability of Phillip Greaves’ book, The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure, which he self-published and was available on Amazon. No, we are not making this up, and yes, you could have gotten it through your Kindle. Customers went crazy and threatened to boycott Amazon unless…

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  • Gina McCauley: What Would Happen If Black Women Walked Away?

    BV Money’s Gina McCauley poses a very real scenario: Suppose black women got tired of the litany of bad statistics and frequent character assassination in popular culture and decided to throw up the deuce? What if they walked away and took all of their resources with them? McCauley suggests that the black church, civil rights…

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  • Kanye Tweets 'I Don't Mess With Matt Lauer or the Today Show'

    Kanye West is hopping mad yet again. This time his target is Matt Lauer of the Today show, who interviewed West about his comments about Bush during Hurricane Katrina. You may recall that Kanye shouted during a telethon that “George Bush doesn’t like black people.” In case you’ve been asleep at the wheel, W. has…

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  • NOPD Post-Katrina Shooting Trial Begins

    Colorlines is reporting that the trial for five New Orleans police officers charged with killing a black man in the days after Hurricane Katrina, and then later covering up his death, has kicked off this week. On Monday, attorneys gathered in New Orleans to begin jury selection, which is expected to continue today. Opening arguments…

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  • Lawsuits Challenge Defense of Marriage Act

    According to the Associated Press, gay civil rights groups trying to build momentum for a possible Supreme Court showdown filed two lawsuits Tuesday that seek to strike down portions of a 1996 law that denies married gay couples federal benefits. The lawsuits, which were filed in federal courts in Connecticut and New York, come just…

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  • Woman Fights Termination for Facebook Postings

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  • Rapper Shyne Living as Orthodox Jew

    The New York Times is reporting that former Diddy protégé Shyne is now living as an orthodox Jew in Jerusalem. Shyne, who now goes by the name of Moses Levi, spent time in prison and then was deported to Belize, his birthplace, upon his release. The troubled rapper has surfaced in Jerusalem, shuttling between sessions…

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  • 600 Women Raped on Congo-Angola Border

    News One is reporting that more than 600 women and girls were recently raped along the Congo-Angola border during a mass expulsion of illegal immigrants, according to the United Nations. Many of the victims said that they were locked in dungeon-like conditions for several weeks while they were raped repeatedly by security forces. At least…

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  • Global Chocolate Crisis on the Horizon

    If you just heard the collective sigh of women all over the world, the reason may be that AOL’s Dave Thier is reporting that there is a chocolate crisis looming. It seems that the supply cannot keep up with the demand for chocolate, for a variety of reasons. The simple economics of cocoa cultivation is…

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  • Republicans Angling to Oust Michael Steele

    Well, well, well. It looks like the chickens may be coming home to roost. It appears that some senior Republican Party officials are maneuvering to put pressure on Michael Steele, the controversial Republican National Committee chairman, not to seek re-election when his term ends in January — or, failing that, to encourage a challenger to…

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