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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

…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 [...]

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 [...]

Great African Queens
Found on African-American Empowerment Blog
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bill Clinton: We Need New Experience in Washington (1992)
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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 [...]

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

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 [...]