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For starters, the fact that the Michael Richards incident is still being churned throughout mainstream media is just too funny for me to just ignore it at this point. In some way, I feel like I did back in high school when my friends and I would sit on the top bleachers and crack on [...]

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Democrats Reject Key 9/11 Panel Suggestion
Neither Party Has an Appetite for Overhauling Congressional Oversight of Intelligence
(washingtonpost.com) It was a solemn pledge, repeated by Democratic leaders and candidates over and over: If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement all of the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that examined the attacks of [...]

(forbes.com) As more and more employers conduct criminal background checks on applicants, critics have charged that such screening is unfair to blacks, who are more likely to have criminal records.
But a new study published in The Journal of Law and Economics argues just the opposite. In fact, employers who perform criminal background checks “are in [...]

WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Jamestown 2007, the organizers of America’s 400th Anniversary, in partnership with Tavis Smiley Presents, Inc. announced today that the “State of the Black Union 2007″ will be held at the Hampton University Convocation Center on February 10, 2007, as part of America’s 400th Anniversary.
The symposium is free to the [...]