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How Barack Obama Is Paving the Way for a Palin Presidency
It does not take a pollster, partisan or psychic to see a harbinger of things to come in Massachusetts voters’ choice of a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. If Barack Obama’s next three years in the White House are anything like his first, he will surely be a one-term president. And for black…
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Schizophrenia as Political Weapon
“There is a schizophrenia, as the psychologists or the psychiatrists would call it, going on within all of us. And there are times that all of us know somehow that there is a Mr. Hyde and a Dr. Jekyll in us….There’s a tension at the heart of human nature. And whenever we set out to…
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Tatyana Ali Misses the Target With "Love That Girl"
Just a few months after the premier of her BET.com web-series, “Buppies,” Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum Tatyana Ali is trying to recreate her 90’s sitcom magic with “Love That Girl” on TV One. Produced by Martin Lawrence and created by Bentley Kyle Evans (who produced “The Jamie Foxx Show”), the series features Ali as…
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Judicial Activism From the Right
It’s hard to appreciate the full measure of how aggressively the conservative five-justice majority imposed its will in Citizens United, the Supreme Court’s decision declaring limits on corporate political speech unconstitutional, unless you read it alongside another of the court’s decisions released the same day, Wood v. Alabama Department of Corrections. By now we all know that…
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Tell Me, Peggy Noonan, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin: What Does an American Look Like, Anyway?
“He’s a sort of new sort of Republican. Old style was a Boston Brahmin liberal Republican.… What followed that was the scrappy Reagan Democrats, ethnic and working class. This is something new now, regular guy, looks like an American…” —Wall Street Journal Columnist Peggy Noonan on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” This is the kind of thing…
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Requiem for Martin Luther King Jr.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has rightfully been celebrated as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century, but he doesn’t get the credit for his significant influence on African-American music. Most music lovers and civil-rights-history buffs know that James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul,” headlined an unforgettable concert in Boston on…
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In Defense of John Edwards
After months of media and suburban coffee-klatch speculation, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards confessed to fathering a love child with his ex-mistress, Rielle Hunter. In a statement released to NBC’s Today Show, the 56-year-old Edwards said, “It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day, when she…
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The Blackest White Folks We Know
The former U.S. president gets major props for traveling halfway around the globe to help out a brother in a bind: American teacher Aijalon Gomes, who had been jailed in North Korea since January 2010. Carter secured Gomes’ release Aug. 26, 2010. (In a side note, apparently Carter is distantly related to President Barack Obama, as…
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Oracle Prez Put on Blast by Mistress
YaVaughnie Phillips, former side piece of Oracle president and Obama advisor Charles Phillips, has decided to air Phillips out over their affair after he decided to return to his wife. How’d she do it? Billboards of course! She paid around £30,000 for each of the posters – three in New York, one in Atlanta and…