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Don't know who she is? Do a google search under Superhead (Hint: If you are under 18, ask your parent first). Read the title of this post s-l-o-w-l-y (for those who may not be too swift). More commentary that writes itself. Hat tip: rtkzradio.com More

Anytime there is a natural disaster, you can count on the fact that the finger pointing is just over the horizon. Before I get to the article, it appears that our community has been spared because the fire never came over the mountain peak behind our homes. As you can see from the third picture I posted yesterday, it came pretty close. Folks from the community began calling us because word was ...More

High Court Frees Wilson ATLANTA (AP) -- The Georgia Supreme Court ordered Genarlow Wilson released from prison today after ruling that his 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager is cruel and unusual punishment. The 21-year-old Wilson has served more than two years in prison. The state's highest court reached the decision after a split 4-to-3 vote. [SNIP] The state Supreme Court had turned down Wilson's appeal of his conviction ...More

SC State bringing 400,000 more textbooks to African school Leonard Haynes Appointed Executive Director of White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges New $100,000 Donor Joins FVSU Pioneers’ Group Associate Dean Authors New Book on Congressional Medal of Honor Winners of Color NSF Awards PVAMU $1 Million to Fund Research to Study Gifted Black Students Spelman College Lehman Brothers partnership More

Black Mayors Oppose Tightening Smog Standards Written By: Ralph W. Conner Heartland.org In a hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM) expressed their opposition to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan to tighten air quality standards. NAM and NCBM support the existing clean air quality standard of .08 parts per million for particulate matter emitted by cars, ...More

Former D.A. kicks out all White employees in favor of Blacks. Jury has found him guilty after numerous appeals and guess what? The city does not have the money in its coffers to cover the $3.7 million suit. Guess who is being considered to help cover the costs? New Orleans taxpayers. Nice! Jordan: N.O. needs to bail out DA The Times-Picayune By Gwen Filosa Staff writer Only the city of New Orleans can pay off District Attorney ...More

From Wikipedia: "Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) is part of the federal income tax system in the United States. There are two AMTs, one for individuals and one for corporations; the AMT for individuals is described here. The AMT is imposed under 26 U.S.C. § 55 and disallows many deductions and exemptions allowable in computing "regular" tax liability. (Regular tax liability is defined in 26 U.S.C. § 55(c)(1), with reference to 26 U.S.C. ...More

African AIDS Statistics Overblown, Experts Say By Pete Winn CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer October 25, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - With World AIDS Day just around the corner on Dec. 1, many AIDS activists continue to portray the 25-year-old epidemic as totally out-of-control. "This year, tell the truth on World AIDS Day," wrote former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on Oct. 9 in the Washington Post. "Admit that we are still losing." Holbrooke, president of the Global Business Coalition on ...More

Biden 'stumbles' over education question WASHINGTON (CNN) — In what the Washington Post is describing as a "stumble," Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said in an interview with the paper Wednesday that Washington's high minority population is one of the reasons for the city's education problems. [SNIP] "There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. ...More

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