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WASHINGTON — United States Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stated that there was no evidence that anyone in the upper echelons of Pakistan’s leadership knew that Osama Bin Laden was hiding in their country. The New York Times reports: “I have seen no evidence at all that the senior leadership knew,” Mr. Gates said. “In […]
DALLAS, Tx. — A Dallas mother alleges that her 12-year-old son was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by classmates even as a teacher stood by and ignored the attack. VIDEO: The NY Daily News reports: The woman said his hands were taped to the chair, he was wrapped with a telephone […]
A recent article on the New York Times is about the way in which college graduates are facing greater and greater difficulty in finding employment after leaving school. The New York Times reports: Employment rates for new college graduates have fallen sharply in the last two years, as have starting salaries for those who can […]
ILLINOIS – Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno used lyrics from the Wu-Tang song “C.R.E.A.M.” from a letter supposedly from Wu Tang rapper, Raekwon. She used lyrics from C.R.E.A.M. to address the state’s budget crisis. “The most precious thing in the world is the financial security and wellbeing of your family…You want to send your little […]
Sugar Ray Leonard was sexually abused by his coach, the boxer reveals in an upcoming memoir Big Fight. In a week, where numerous sports figures have admitted to either being gay or being sexually abused, the Hall of Fame boxer joins the list. At age 15, Leonard and another teenage fighter were instructed to take […]
The first African-American to own a NASCAR racing team will link up with the organization again in an executive role for one of its most important foundations: The NASCAR STEM Initiative. As part of a larger education program called the Ten80 Student Racing Challenge, the NASCAR STEM Initiative uses its powerful name brand (and extremely […]
NEW YORK – Marie Lauradin plead guilty to first-degree assault charges for lighting her 6-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual to get rid of evil spirits. The New York Daily News reports: Lauradin, 30, admitted pouring rum over daughter Frantzcia Santil’s head during the June 2009 incident in the basement of her Queens […]
Princeton professor Melissa Harris Perry wrote an op-ed on The Nation’s website today speaking about what she believes to be the “thin, personal” criticisms being thrown the way of President Obama from Professor Cornel West. Here is some of the piece: West’s sense of betrayal is clearly more personal than ideological. In Hedges’s article West […]
Dominique Strauss Kahn may have more to worry about than just the sex assault charge a hotel maid levied on him. The West African maid who was allegedly assaulted by Kahn lived in an apartment in the Bronx rented exclusively to people with HIV/AIDS. It is unknown whether the maid has AIDS. The woman has […]
If a man is offered a piece of stale bread for dinner, he’s probably not going to want to eat it. If you were to then say, well, “stale bread is better than horse manure,” this won’t make the stale bread taste any better. When given the choice between bad food and horrible food, some […]