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Official Sheds Light on Possible Obama Moves in Africa
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson is spilling some of the president’s beans regarding his African policies in the future. In Washington Monday, Carson told the African American Unity Caucus that Obama’s African policy would focus on four key issues. According to Voice of America, those issues are: 1.Promoting and strengthening democratic…
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Video: United We Serve
The First Family calls on Americans to lend a hand. Do you agree that “a summer of service initiative” helps to kickstart an economic recovery?
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Iran Rounding Up Foreign Nationals in Connection with Protests
The haps on the caps from CNN: -The Iranian government has arrested several foreign nationals, some holding British passports in connection with the post-elections unrest -Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ezhei told reporters that some with links to the West and Israel had planned bombings ahead of the June 12 presidential election -Mohseni-Ezhei said to reporters of…
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If Not You, Mr. President, Then Who?
Collectively, we prefer that our expectations be met on our schedule and not a second later. That explains why a new Washington Post/ABC News poll reveals that barely half of Americans still believe that President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus measure will boost the economy. While it’s interesting to read how Americans overall are struggling to…
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Spike's Woman Problem
Cinematically speaking, it’s one of those “oh, that scene” moments: suffocating heat, an ice cube tray, Rosie Perez’s naked, heaving breasts. An exceedingly tight close-up of Rosie Perez’s naked, heaving breasts. And you’ve got Spike Lee—clearly enjoying his auteur/actor privileges—rubbing an ice cube over said breasts, paying crooning homage to “the right nipple” and “the…
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Who's on Tap in the NBA?
Last summer, Brandon Jennings looked like a pioneer who would change the way that young men become professional basketball players. Now, he looks like just another teenager with NBA dreams. Jennings, a 19-year-old from Compton, Calif., had signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Arizona. He wasn’t planning on receiving a degree,…
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Going In-Sanford in South Carolina
Republican South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, infamous stimulus naysayer and presidential aspirant, has been missing since Thursday. Let’s just keep it one hundred and call it what it is: Sanford got “touched in the head,” as the old folks used to say. But is there anything wrong with that? Bob McAlister, chief of staff to…
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My House, Your Kids: Whose Mama Rules?
A little while ago, I was at a party where children were invited. It was held on the rooftop of a beachfront building, with a staircase to an observation deck. At one point, a six year old was scampering up and down the stairs—unsupervised, as his mother was enjoying drinks with her colleagues at the…
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The Lost Tapes: Nixon's Rants and Racism Now Public
Fifteen years after 37th U.S. President Richard Nixon passed away, thousands of papers and over 150 hours of tapes from Nixon’s oval office—made between January and February 1973—have been dumped, via the National Archives, into the American collective consciousness. (Check the audio files and some documents here). And as you would expect, they’re quite the…
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UPDATE: Nine Killed in DC Metro Crash
Nine people have been confirmed dead in the DC metro crash from yesterday. Check out the WASHINGTON POST for ongoing coverage of this tragedy. POSTED THIS MORNING: A collision between two rush hour commuter trains resulted in the deaths of at least six people and injured seventy-six others in the late afternoon Monday. The accident…