Arkansas Deputy Gets His Karma After Racist Video Spreads Online
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After Customer Got Caught In A Hilarious Braid Shop Brawl, She Recorded The Whole Thing
Meghan Markle Breaks Her Silence On Her Viral Twerk Video
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Valentine's Day By the Numbers
So here’s what drives me nuts about Hollywood, what sticks in my craw, frustrates me to no end, makes me want to swear off the multiplex after decades of devoted movie junkie-dom, throwing down my hard-earned, recessionally downsized cash at the box office: Movies like Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is the worst kind of cynically…
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The Ladies Clap Back at Dodge Charger Super Bowl Ad
Here’s the Dodge Charger Super Bowl ad And here’s a spoof pwn’ing it
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Muslim Group Issues Fatwa on Full-Body Scanners
Peeped this over on Slate. The Fiqh Council of North America has issued a fatwa on TSA’s full body scanners. The scanners, which have been promoted as a way of catching would-be bombers like Umar Abdulmutallab, have also been criticized as too invasive. The Transportation Security Administration claims the images they produce are more “chalk…
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CA Shop Owners Say Border Patrol Scaring Away Customers
Customer frisking is not helping small business owners near the border between California and Mexico and they want it to stop. Store owners at Alipaz Plaza at Del Obispo and Alipaz streets told Mayor Lon Uso during his Mayor’s Walk this week that they want the city to ask the Border Patrol to stop going…
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Read/React: President Still Suffering from "Let's Hug It Out" Syndrome
The White House scored a victory after a threat to make recess appointments caused Senate Republicans to confirm 29 people. According to Ezra Klein, the administration celebrated the victory by bungling it At this point in his presidency, George W. Bush had made 10 recess appointments. Over the course of his presidency, he would make…
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Check It Out: Should the Bush Administration Take the Blame For 9/11?
Over on The Plum Line, Greg Sargent offers an interesting question If, by your own lights, the Bush/Cheney administration’s record on national security should be judged by the fact that there were no massive terror attacks after 9/11, why shouldn’t it also be judged by the fact that 3,000 Americans were killed on your watch…
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Help! We Need Shovels!
Scooped this from FedBlog over on Government Executive Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who also sits on the House Oversight and Government Reform Federal Workforce subcommittee, is asking for it. I think she’s right to do so. The federal government’s operations are directly impinged by the storm, and DC’s ability to manage it, whether that means…
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Do Over! Obama to Help Pick Site for Terrorism Trial
The idea of trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City has gone over like a lead balloon and now the White House is stepping in to help pick an alternate trial site Obama initially had asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to choose the site of the trial in an effort to…
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Meeting Mandela
Twenty years ago, I was in Cape Town, South Africa covering the release of Nelson Mandela for TIME Magazine. It was one of the highlights of my journalistic career. Just hours after this great man walked out of Victor Verster Prison, I was sitting in the Cape Town City Hall just a few feet away…
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Bill Clinton Hospitalized with Chest Pains
Bill Clinton is resting comfortably after experiencing chest pains which sent him to the hospital “President Clinton is in good spirits, and will continue to focus on the work of his Foundation and Haiti’s relief and long-term recovery efforts,” said adviser Doug Band said in a statement. He is expected to stay the night at…