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The following is a comment I posted on Afronerd’s site (note–I added one more sentence in my blurb):
I think one of the biggest complaints I heard against J.W. commentary (“Taylor’s death a grim reminder for us all“) was the fact that he laid part of the blame on hip hop. Personally, I would not have [...]

Gregory Kane writes…
Young (Sen. Larry Young) said that after he first learned of Philadelphia’s efforts, he was driving to work one day when the inspiration hit him: If Philadelphians can pull together 10,000 men to hit the streets and curb that city’s homicide rate, why can’t Baltimoreans? (The Sun ran two articles about the late-October [...]

Immigrants, illegals use welfare more often
By Stephen Dinan
washingtontimes.com
Both immigrants and illegal aliens are more likely to be poor and to use welfare programs than native-born Americans because they come to the country with lower levels of education, according to a new study looking at U.S. Census Bureau data.
“The problem here is not work, or a [...]

British teacher tried for inciting religious hatred with teddy bear named ’Muhammad’ (AP)
KHARTOUM, Sudan – A British teacher went on trial today on charges of inciting religious hatred by letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad, a crime punishable by up to 40 lashes and six months in jail.
Gillian Gibbons walked in without handcuffs, [...]

While I may have been just a glimmer in my mother’s eye when the movie “Planet of the Apes” first came out it theaters, I do remember all the reruns of the entire series that came on television throughout the 70′s as well as the cartoon and the miniseries. I even had the lunchbox [...]

CAGW Uploads Database of Labor-HHS Earmarks
Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today makes public a comprehensive, searchable database of the 2,243 earmarks worth $1 billion in the Fiscal 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Act, H.R. 3043.
“CAGW provides taxpayers with the information that Congress wants to keep under wraps: [...]