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Hillary and Bill Clinton Take the White House
No, that’s not a flashback to 1993: Hillary Clinton, current Secretary of State and former president Bill Clinton are meeting separately with president Barack Obama to discuss foreign affairs. Hillary, fresh off a female-focused ten day trip to sub-Saharan Africa, is keeping her standard weekly appointment at the White House, while her husband will have…
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First Black Ref in NFL Passes Away
From BET: Burl Toler, the first African-American official in NFL history who went on to work one Super Bowl in a distinguished career, has died. He was 81. The University of San Francisco says Toler died Sunday at a hospital in Castro Valley. Toler was a star player on the Dons famous “Undefeated, Untied, Uninvited”…
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Gaming The Debt Away
Would you rather trust your financial future with Howie Mandel over Tim Geithner? If you answer yes, take an odd comfort in knowing you’re not alone. According to USA Today, a growing number of Americans have decided to take their chances with game shows with the hopes that they can win big to pay off…
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What Our Modern Era of Greed Looks Like
Between the beach and the birthers-turned-death panelists, you probably missed this one last week: Income inequality in America became more pronounced at the end of the Bush era than it had been since, well, ever. The closest comparison to the gap between the super rich and everybody else are the years just before the Great…
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Breaking: Conservative Columnist Robert Novak Succumbs to Cancer
From Main Street Monroe: Robert David Sanders “Bob” Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009 was a syndicated columnist, journalist and conservative political commentator who wrote the longest-running current U.S. syndicated political column (45 years, as of February 2008).Over his career, Novak became well-known as a columnist (writing Inside Report since 1963) and as…
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Obama "Joker" Artist is NOT a Conservative
From the ABC News: The Los Angeles Times tracked down the artist of the evocative, unflattering depiction of President Obama as The Joker from The Dark Knight and he may not be whom you pictured. Firas Alkhateeb, a 20-year-old senior history major at the University of Illinois, took a TIME cover photo of the President…
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Prisons, Prayer and Budget Cuts
Standish Maximum Security Prison may shut down in October. That’s an interesting blow for the good people of Standish, Michigan. One, it was just announced that the Standish facility was being considered for the relocation of Guantanamo detainees. Two, it’s the largest employer for the town and that means folks won’t have a means to…
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Man Makes It Rain…on California Freeway
From NewsOne: California authorities say a man caused a traffic jam when he threw money onto a Los Angeles-area freeway and people dashed into the lanes to grab the cash. California Highway Patrol Sgt. Kurt Stormes says the man tossed money from his car on Interstate 210 in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora shortly…
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The NFL on Vick: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
From Deadspin: Michael Vick spoke with the creases of James Brown’s forehead yesterday. Again we were treated to the spectacle of a man who has profited off a brutal, inhumane sport nonetheless claiming the moral high ground. I refer to James Brown. A flock of father confessors has surrounded Vick since his release from prison,…