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Princeton professor Melissa Harris Perry wrote an op-ed on The Nation’s website today speaking about what she believes to be the “thin, personal” criticisms being thrown the way of President Obama from Professor Cornel West. Here is some of the piece: West’s sense of betrayal is clearly more personal than ideological. In Hedges’s article West […]

WASHINGTON D.C. – In a move to ridicule the right wing “birther” movement, the Barack Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign is selling t-shirts with “Made In The USA” on one side and Barack Obama’s birth certificate on the other. RELATED STORIES Colin Powell On Birthers: “Obama Blew Them Away” Obama Slams Media On Birther Issue: “No […]

NEW YORK- The NYPD is placing bags in public view full with items such as IPods and cash and then arresting people if they take the bag or its contents in an initiative called “Operation Lucky Bag”. The New York Daily News reports: Attorney Norman Siegel said people who are arrested through Operation Lucky Bag […]

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas opened up to an audience of attorneys in his home state of Georgia on Tuesday, comparing critics of the bench to die-hard sports fans and wondering aloud whether they suffer from a “disease of illiteracy or laziness.” Thomas, who was born in nearby Pin Point, told the […]

Dominique Strauss Kahn may have more to worry about than just the sex assault charge a hotel maid levied on him. The West African maid who was allegedly assaulted by Kahn lived in an apartment in the Bronx rented exclusively to people with HIV/AIDS. It is unknown whether the maid has AIDS. The woman has […]

MEXICO — Mexican authorities said they detained more than 500 illegal immigrants from Central America and Asia who were crammed inside two tractor-trailers heading toward the United States. CNN reports: X-ray equipment detected the immigrants at checkpoints in the southern state of Chiapas, the state attorney general’s office said. The drivers of both trucks sped […]

MINNEAPOLIS –GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista were hit with glittery confetti by a protester Tuesday during the couple’s appearance at a book-signing.

NEW YORK–The mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s lovechild has been identified as Mildred “Patty” Baena, a family housekeeper for the now estranged couple for nearly 20 years.

A recent article appearing in the New York Times focuses on the growing trend of weaves stolen from beauty shops across the country. Just last month, a pair of robbers stole close to $90,000 worth of weaves from a Chicago beauty shop. The robbery is just one of many which illustrates how quality hair weaves […]

CHICAGO, Il. — A homeless man in Chicago named Curtis Jackson has given  thousands of dollars he earns panhandling to a struggling single-mother who lives out of a hotel room with her 10-year-old son. Fox Chicago News reports: Sandy’s Good Samaritan is Curtis Jackson, who’s been homeless since 2004. He pays for Sandy’s hotel room […]

CALIFORNIA — A woman was escorted off an Amtrak train on Sunday for speaking too loudly on her phone. Huffington Post reports: Lakeysha Beard, 39, was charged with disorderly conduct after she wouldn’t stop talking on the 16-hour trip from Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon. The train was stopped short of its destination. Train operators […]

WASHINGTON — The government is giving Haitian immigrants who fled their island nation after last year’s devastating earthquake more time to live and work in the U.S. legally while their country rebuilds. The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday it was extending a temporary protective status for qualified Haitian immigrants for another 18 months. It […]