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Black Commenter, Criticizing Obama, Causes Firestorm By Darryl Fears washingtonpost.com Tavis Smiley, the bestselling author of the "Covenant With Black America," is in a world turned upside down. He said he's being "hammered," "barbecued," and is "catching hell" from black Americans for suggesting that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) made a major mistake by declining to speak at the State of the Black Union event that Smiley plans to host next week in New ...More

What started as a response to question by a commenter on a blog turned into something too big to post as a comment. I decided to combine some of my other thoughts closely related to the question. The question was "I want all the people who voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 to tell me what it was about Bush that made you feel he would make a good president." For ...More

Church Encourages Members To Have More Sex YBOR CITY, Fla. -- Feeling frisky? A southwest Florida church is encouraging all its married members to have sex every day for 30 days. The Rev. Paul Wirth of Relevant Church said the 50 percent divorce rate was the catalyst for the 30-Day Sex Challenge. What is the flip side of the challenge? No rolling in the sheets for the unwed. (more...) Believe it or not, there ...More

Shooting shows why Obama strikes a chord So many of his supporters are tired of feeling hopeless Mary Mitchell suntimes.com If you're wondering why Sen. Barack Obama's message of hope has resonated with so many voters across the country, consider the shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University. Despite a decade of school shootings, we are never prepared for the horror of someone opening fire on innocent people, then taking his or her own life. On Thursday, ...More

...you know it is happening elsewhere. Schools cut secret deals with abusive teachers They call it "passing the trash," and it's a common practice that lets child abusers resign and move to another district AMY HSUAN, MELISSA NAVAS and BILL GRAVES The Oregonian Staff It would take months for the agency that licenses Oregon teachers to discipline a Salem-area teacher for inappropriately touching at least eight girls. To get Kenneth John Cushing, then 44, away from ...More

NBA players' financial security no slam dunk Dave Feschuk thestar.com Reported 1/31/08 "Sixty per cent is a ballpark. But we've seen a lot of guys who've really come into hard times five years after they leave the league," said Roy Hinson, the former NBA forward who's a representative for the players' association. "The problems are, for a lot of guys, they have a lot of cars, they have multiple houses, they're taking care of ...More

Great African Queens Found on African-American Empowerment Blog AMINA QUEEN Of ZARIA (1588-1589) This queen of Zazzua, a province of Nigeria now known as Zaria, was born around 1533 during the reign of Sarkin (king) Zazzau Nohir. She was probably his granddaughter. Zazzua was one of a number of Hausa city-states which dominated the trans-Saharan trade after the collapse of the Songhai empire to the west. Its wealth was due to trade of mainly ...More

Number of US Primary Care Doctors Down WASHINGTON — (AP) Fewer American doctors are focusing on primary care, but the decline is being covered by physicians from other countries. The General Accountability Office said Tuesday that as of 2006 there were 22,146 American doctors in residency programs in the United States specializing in primary care. That was down from 23,801 in 1995, the research arm of Congress told the Senate Health, Education, ...More

Montell is a bright, sociable, and energetic child who loves playing sports and being outdoors. Montell is very imaginative and artistically inclined. His favorite subject in school is Art! He also enjoys playing video games and watching television. Montell has good fine and gross motor skills and likes to be a part of the action! Montell needs a great deal of support and guidance in learning to express his feelings and ...More

Bill Clinton: We Need New Experience in Washington (1992) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlrSG1xb5k&rel=1] More

Peg over at the blog 'What if..' just did a post on a book that I have been wanting to get for a long time, but it has slipped my mind until now. In short, it is a true account of a young man who decided to give up most of his possessions and start from the bottom. He left himself with only $25 and a backpack (I believe) of a ...More

Wireimage 1 My neighbor and his wife attended this event, so I guess I will be hearing all about it this weekend. More

Checking In with the Investor Class We went back to a group of voters BusinessWeek profiled four years ago to see which Presidential candidates are speaking to their concerns With the U.S. economy souring and stock markets down, where are voters in the so-called investor class turning? American voters who identify themselves as investors—those who own stocks and bonds directly or invest in them through 401(k)s, mutual funds, or other accounts—have been a ...More