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Happy Fourth!!!
Last week I had the opportunity to tour George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. My nieces, 11 and 6, and I spent the day learning about Washington’s life, viewing historical artifacts, visiting the mansion and the gardens and, most of all, marveling at the model of integrity and leadership he established as our nation’s…
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Debbie Rowe wants her kids back
You know, I hate being right so much of the time. Actually I don’t, but as regular readers of this blog and my own personal joint know, I have a talent for clairvoyance. So, not long after I told CNN’s Kiran Chetry that Debbie Rowe would almost certainly throw her hat into the ring ……
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VIDEO: Sarah Palin Quits
CNN has details of her announcement: “Palin added in a statement that she was “determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path. … Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional lame duck status in this particular climate would…
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Happy Fourth of July, Or Not
I’m keeping it simple today. The week has been crazy. From meditating on the death of MJ to witnessing a 9 year old black boy getting handcuffed for stealing a wallet to wondering why the weather’s so unsettled in NYC, I’m ready to light a firecracker and just chill. Wait, that’s a huge contradiction… anyway.…
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Blame It On The G-G-G-G-Gays!
As most social conservatives have long told us, gay people are the bane of God’s existence. God abhors gay folk, does not even claim gay folk like that, and can’t wait to send us son back to Earth to throw them in a pit of fire – in their hot pants, preferably. Now through relentless…
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Why Venus and Serena Own Wimbledon
UPDATE: Serena Wins In Straight Sets PHOTOS: How Beautiful Are The Williams Sisters? Venus and Serena Williams will meet in the Wimbledon finals on Saturday. This may not seem like news, but the context of the Williams sisters domination of their sport is changing. It’s no longer a matter of whether they are the best…
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What’s the New American Idea?
The United States of America celebrates its 233rd birthday this year, while its leaders try to refashion the “idea of America” for an increasingly complex and unpredictable world. The White House is burning the midnight oil deliberating on the extent to which American foreign policy should move toward national interests or national values, realism or…
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Can You Hear My T-Shirt Now?
T-shirts are a powerful form of American expression. The ’60s, ‘70s and ‘80s were chock full of chic, racially specific slogans and images on T-shirts that amounted to an ongoing protest rally. Who can forget “Black Man’s Time”? Or the equally iconic: “Happy to be Nappy”? But in the 1990s, that sort of in-your-face, activist statement…
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Michelle Obama's Sistah-Girlfriend Press Corps
Howard Kurtz’s recent claim that black female reporters are having difficulty covering the first lady because she is also a black female is a worthwhile topic of discussion, but his focus on “objectivity” misses the point. THE BUZZ has a pretty good summary of Kurtz’s analysis, and at TAPPED, Adam Serwer makes a characteristically smart…
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So…Black Women Shouldn't Cover the First Lady Because She's 'One of Them'?
From the Washington Post: “While Michelle Obama was meeting with doctors and patients at the Upper Cardozo Health Center, nearly two dozen journalists stood behind a white rope in a small room upstairs, most finally growing so tired during the hour-long wait that they sat on the floor. Finally the first lady emerged, read a…
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