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Gov. Bobby Jindal: Uncle Taj Could Save the GOP
Despite his apparent dissection from reality and a genral bad showing, I predict Gov. Bobby Jindal will be the GOP’s Barack Obama, and not for nothing. Jindal is America’s Uncle Taj: an Indian Uncle Tom who is way more deferential, intentionally blanched and non-threatening than Obama could ever be: Jindal is uncool, unsure, overeducated, earnest…
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The Tie That Binds
A small South Carolina town at the intersection of our nation’s history. Two men, Darrell Crawford and Marty Cann, who share not only reputations as fine men and upstanding citizens, but also bloodlines that land them on opposite sides of a tragic day nearly 100 years ago. Unspeakable Buzzonians, what, if anything, does Marty Cann owe…
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Learning, One Lyric at a Time
Gabriel Benn, a D.C. rapper cum school teacher, believes hip-hop and higher learning go hand in hand. Click below to see what he and others are doing to make rhymes and word play part of a balanced curriculum. Reading, Writing, Lyricmetic Those who have a command of the language very often control the flow of information…
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Police Who Taser Children
Last September a Los Angeles police officer used his Taser to subdue an unruly and autistic 12 year old. When Officer Vincent Arias walked into the Hawthorne California middle school the 5’7” boy was violently assaulting a security guard. After a bout of kicking and cursing, the student decided to flee through an exit door…
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What Chris Brown Can Learn From Mike Tyson
To watch “Tyson,” the former heavyweight champion’s self-produced mea culpa on all things Mike, is to unpack two decades’ worth of crazy: the rape conviction, the prison conversion, the chewed ear, the DUI arrest, the bankruptcy, the Don King dustup … that Barbara Walters’ train wreck of an interview with Robin Givens. The documentary feels…
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Besmirch and Destroy
Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, is horrified that President Obama has become the “world’s best salesman of socialism.” He grimly argues that conservatives will have to “take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.” And if that is not alarming enough, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has shrilly declared that the…
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Lost Decade? We Just Had One
” ‘Jesus,’ he said to himself. ‘Drunk for ten years.’ “—F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Lost Decade” For months, the “lost decade” meme has been wending its way through blog posts, economics journals, cable news shows, and newspaper think pieces until, like a minor leaguer on a hot streak, it finally reached The Show, the White…
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While You Were Out: The Week In Review
The New York Times: ‘Slumdog’ Smashes at Oscars, Buzz Still Has Not Seen It The Los Angeles Times: Obama Likely To Act As President of Whole Country, MoveOn.org Has Collective Stroke Think Progress: Rick Santelli Throws Down Gauntlet at President, Is Shook Upon Realization of What He Did The New York Times: President Delivers Patented ‘Obama…
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Perry Bacon: Does Michael Steele Really Think He Can Win Black Votes In the Age of Obama?
Newly-elected Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele flew to Los Angeles over the weekend for The Tavis Smiley Festival (better known as the annual “State of the Black Union” conference)—the latest sign he is determined to tout the GOP to every black audience he can. He had pledged this during his campaign for the job,…
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Rihanna and Chris – Back Together
So it looks like Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together. A source tells People Magazine that the loving couple was seen together at Sean Combs’ mansion. So, after the world was throwing daggers at Chris Brown for being a horrid, classic abusive black man, little Mz Rihanna was somewhere in Guyana, in between healing…