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5 Things to Watch This 2016 Election Year
The first week of the New Year is the perfect time for political predictions, trend-spotting and a whole host of other prognostications about the upcoming year, only half of which will likely come true. However, 2016 won’t be like most election years. It’s an open-seat election; we’re definitely getting a new president-elect by November, unless…
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President Obama Just Made Gun Control an Election Issue in 2016
About 15 seconds after President Barack Obama delivered a heartfelt, emotional series of proposals for gun safety, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released a statement. Within five minutes after President Obama finished speaking, Reince Priebus, the head of the Republican National Committee, released a statement. The swiftness with which these statements were released means that unless the…
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She Botched the George Zimmerman Trial, but Will Angela Corey Get Re-Elected in Fla.?
If you live in one of the 10 or so swing states for the 2016 presidential election, about 12 hours ago, you started getting bombarded with zillions of ads. Whether they’re ads suggesting that Marco Rubio is an absentee senator or ads in which Donald Trump is promising to build a wall against Mexicans or…
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Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy Founder Shows Off His Slick Dance Moves With Students
If you glanced at Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy, you’d think you were in the middle of Hogwarts and might expect to see Harry Potter and his crew sitting in the classrooms. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. What you will see is a group of talented fifth- through eighth-graders, learning not only math…
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Nnedi Okorafor Is Putting Africans at the Center of Science Fiction and Fantasy
“In postapocalyptic and apocalyptic narratives when they show the whole world freaking out about something that is happening to the Earth, they never show Africa,” says Nnedi Okorafor, the author of 11 books of science fiction and fantasy, among them the award-winning Zahra the Windseeker, The Book of Phoenix and Who Fears Death. “I wasn’t…
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Shocking Findings in Probe of Ga. Police Shootings
Atlanta Reporters Uncover Fate of Victims of Ga. Police “Nearly half the 184 Georgians shot and killed by police since 2010 were unarmed or shot in the back, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News investigation has found,” Brad Schrade and Jennifer Peebles reported Monday for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Those findings emerged from the most extensive…
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Concussion: Meet the Real Doctor Who Took on the NFL and Changed Football Forever
Baseball may still be billed as the national pastime, but football actually surpassed it in popularity a long time ago. So for anyone born and raised in the United States, challenging the NFL is just unthinkable. Dr. Bennet Omalu wasn’t born and raised in this country, however. Had he been, it’s doubtful that the forensic…
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Wheaton College Suspends Professor After Facebook Post Supporting Muslims
Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian institution, has put one of its professors on administrative leave. The move apparently stems from remarks that the associate professor of political science made in solidarity with Muslims, the New York Times reports. The Illinois liberal arts college released a statement explaining that it suspended Larycia Hawkins for “significant questions…
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Zack Morris, Religion, and Me
Have you seen Truth Be Told? It’s the new Zack Morris sitcom on NBC in the doomed Friday night slot when all of the people that might watch this show are out doing way cooler shit. It’s not the best show, but it’s also not the worst show, either, but I like Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris) and Tone…
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Muslim Student Reportedly Singled Out by Teacher Who Asked if She Had Bomb in Backpack
A Georgia father is claiming that his 13-year-old daughter was singled out at Shiloh Middle School in Snellville, because of her religion, and he’s demanding answers, CBS46 reports. Abdirizak Aden said that his daughter was in her science class when her teacher asked her, in front of the entire class, if she had a bomb in…