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(sfgate.com) (09-02) 04:00 PDT Washington -- House Democrats are making headway on their goals of slashing pork-barrel spending in half and disclosing more information about spending on lawmakers' pet projects, known as earmarks. But while spending on earmarks may be trimmed and more closely scrutinized this year, top Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi aren't exactly suffering. The San Francisco Democrat raked in almost $100 million in earmarks in the spending bills ...More

Michael Fauntroy writes.. "Now that the PBS/Tavis Smiley candidates forum has come and gone, it is now the Republicans’ turn to speak to issues of importance to people of color. September 27 is the date and Morgan State University in Baltimore is the place where as many as one dozen Republican candidates may gather to make their pitches to a national audience. While many will be focused on the candidates and ...More

Ralph Anwan Glover from the hit show The Wire in a recent interview with Newsweek talks about his own experience on the street in a response to the murder of his youngest brother last month. Here is an excerpt from that interview: You go in there and tell the kids that it’s not cool, but do they believe you? Some of them do. I reach to a lot of them, through the ...More

(LA Times/kansascity.com) BAGHDAD, Iraq | Child fighters, once a rare presence on Iraq’s battlefields, are playing a significant and growing role in kidnappings, killings and roadside bombings in the country, U.S. military officials say. Boys, some as young as 11, now outnumber foreign fighters at U.S. detention camps in Iraq. Since March, their numbers have risen from 100 to 800, said Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone, the commander of detainee operations. Stone attributes ...More

(eurweb.com) Bishop Thomas Weeks faced serious financial trouble leading up to the alleged attack of his wife, televangelist Juanita Bynum, last month in Atlanta, reports the city’s FOX 5 news. According to the report, the 40-year-old bishop left several unpaid creditors behind when he and his wife moved to Atlanta from Washington, D.C. in 2006 to expand their ministry. FOX 5 News uncovered court documents that show Weeks led a ministry in ...More

The latest round of overkill commentaries center around the proposed King monument that is currently slated to be constructed by Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin. Here's another article: (palmbeachpost.com) The choice of a sculptor is a giant step toward beginning construction. Instead of widespread approval, however, the committee's choice of a Chinese artist has brought criticism from those who contend that an African-American - or at least an American - should have ...More