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Has Obama Kept His Promise to New Orleans?
President Barack Obama made a campaign promise that he would not leave New Orleans and the Gulf Coast hanging in their post-Katrina recovery. As the fifth anniversary of that tragic storm approaches, it’s time to take inventory of how much Obama has lived up to that promise. Since Hurricane Katrina and the levee-breaching floods that…
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Rudy Giuliani's Daughter Arrested for Shoplifting
Fresh from the “Those who throw stones” file, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s daughter Caroline was arrested on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge in a beauty-supply store. Giuliani was caught on videotape pocketing items for which she had not paid. A current student at Harvard, Giuliani was seen taking more than $100 worth of…
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‘Operation Beautiful’: Corny, Yet Critical
Little girls are starting to diet at age 8. That was the first thing that caught my attention this a.m. as I was half-listening to the Today show. I suddenly felt aggrieved. Age 8 means unicorns, rainbows, Barbie dolls and a closet full of pink dresses, pink jeans and pink sneakers. I rarely curse, but…
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Senate to Confirm Kagan's Nomination
Elena Kagan is on the brink of becoming the nation’s fourth-ever woman justice. The Senate is set Thursday to confirm President Barack Obama’s second nominee, whose addition to the court will mark the first time three female justices have served concurrently. Nearly all Democrats, the Senate’s two independents and a handful of Republicans are backing her.…
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Law Group Will Sue Over Michigan Oil Spill
The Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, a group of environmental lawyers based in Detroit, issued a 60-day notice of intent to file a citizen suit against Enbridge in connection with the oil spill into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. The intent notice is required by the Clean Water Act. The group sent the notice…
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Whoopi Goldberg Has Backstage Shouting Match With Infamous Party Crashers
The Salahis are on that stuff. Upset that The View host Whoopi Goldberg touched his wife, Michaela, during a segment of the show promoting The Real Housewives of D.C., Tareq Salahi had an “elevated and heated” exchange with Goldberg after the live telecast. Neither Goldberg nor Tareq Salahi were part of the interview, but Goldberg came…
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Soledad O'Brien Just Wants to Tell a Good Story
The CNN anchor and correspondent recently came to Washington D.C., along with celebrities like Magic Johnson, to fete the National Urban League on its centennial, then jetted to San Diego to accept the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. In between the engagements, she shared her thoughts on the…
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The Right Sees Quotas Where They Don't Exist
There are many legitimate reasons to critique the recently enacted Dodd-Frank financial-services reform bill. Most of its shortcomings fall into the “it doesn’t go far enough” category. And in one instance — the unfortunate decision by Congress to exempt automobile dealers from the bill’s new oversight requirements — it doesn’t go at all. The enactment…