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Either Go to Bed, Or Eat Everything in the House
I want birthday cake. Maybe a big dish of ice cream. Nachos with lots of jalapenos would be good right about now, too. My eyes are closed as I type this because it’s midday and I’m fading, fast. I swore I’d never pull another all-nighter, but a client’s grant application was due, and it’s for…
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Richard Prince's Book Roundup
Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: Compelling Nonfiction After 44 years behind bars, the nation’s most famous prison journalist tells his story. A black journalist reaches the highest reaches of the New York Times newsroom, only to topple in a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions. Women examine their multifaceted status in 21st century journalism. Now it can be…
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Two Black Women Vie to Diversify Arkansas
Arkansas has never elected an African American to a federal office — ever — much less a black woman. That could change this year as two candidates — one Democrat, one Republican — attempt to diversify the congressional delegation of this Old South state. Democrat Joyce Elliott, 59, a state legislator and retired schoolteacher, is…
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Neil Armstrong Isn't Very Pumped About Obama's Space Plans
Neil Armstrong believes President Obama’s plan for the space program may doom NASA to fall behind in this generation’s space race: “If the leadership we have acquired is simply allowed to fade away, other nations will surely step in where we have faltered,” said the Apollo 11 commander. “I do not believe that this would…
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GALLERY: Black Republicans Running for Congress
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Mississippi’s 1st district After founding a conservative political consulting firm, McGlowan went on to analyze business and politics for Fox News. In her own words: “President Barack Obama and San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi are implementing policies that are destroying our conservative…
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We Need More Than Obama's Trust To Support Kagan
Today, as expected, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Kagan, the first female solicitor general (and also the first female dean of Harvard Law School), is by all accounts brilliant and extremely qualified. And to hear President Obama and some of his supporters tell it, Kagan…
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Memo to Congress: Save TRIO
How do we ensure that motivated students from low-income backgrounds pursue higher education? Since 1964, a major part of the answer to that question has been the existence of the TRIO programs: six programs with a goal of getting economically disadvantaged students into college to help end cycles of poverty. The programs include Upward Bound,…
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Pregnant and Covering the Crisis in Haiti
Shortly after the earthquake, I stood in the open courtyard of a badly damaged downtown Port-au-Prince hospital in Haiti, in a makeshift maternity ward pushed outdoors by necessity, taking in the crying newborns and the laboring women moaning in pain. I scribbled in my notepad, taking detailed notes as I interviewed a Haitian-American nurse, a…
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How the Govt's Complicit in Obesity Epidemic
Agricultural subsidies are making Americans fat, or so sayeth one blogger on Mercola.com I believe many of our society’s chronic health problems could be resolved if attention was paid, at the highest levels of government, to the root problem – our agricultural subsidies. If growers of subsidized fresh vegetables were in a clear majority, you…
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NEWS STAND: Obama Takes On Gulf Spill; Taliban Claim NY Car Bomb, Usher, Mariah and Nick (again) and more..
President Obama to do everything `humanly possible’ on spillhttp://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hIfwUDeBxbANKX2GATS6YOiMTnJQD9FEVEB01 As if we needed to hear this. We think it’s interesting that folks are trying to lay this disaster at his feet. The Obama administration should have responded more quickly to the spill? Which is it? More government or less government? Oversight on this but no…