National

Though the release of thousands of Sarah Palin’s emails have done little to help her reputation as an airhead, an analysis of the former governor’s messages show her writing to be at an 8th grade level, higher then that of many corporate executives. HuffingtonPost.com reports: AOL Weird News brought samples to two writing analysts who […]

Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings’ nephew was killed Friday morning at his off-campus apartment near Old Dominion University in Virginia.

WASHINGTON — Ignoring calls from several top Democrats for his resignation, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) seems determined to keep his place in Congress. Recent reports indicate that Weiner would soon be checking into a treatment center. Huffington Post reports: Weiner’s office put out a statement confirming those reports and announcing that he had requested a […]

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has called for the resignation of Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner. The calls by Pelosi and other Democrats are the culmination to a week in which Weiner admitted to having inappropriate conversations with at least six women online. Just yesterday, Weiner admitted to exchanging messages with a 17-year-old girl, though he […]

TALLAHASSEE — President Barack Obama has problems in Florida that he didn’t have when he won the prized state in 2008. The state’s economy is worse than elsewhere. Foreclosures are high. Property values are low. As president, Obama could be blamed. Voters’ shifting attitudes show the degree to which the atmosphere has changed since his […]

If anyone can qualify for the phrase “stuck on stupid,” it’s Rep. Anthony Weiner. This story was a benign and silly one for me from the beginning. OK, the New York congressman said his Twitter account had been hacked, that he really wasn’t the one who sent that picture to the woman in Seattle. It […]

What do former US Secretary of State George Schultz, US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker, the former Presidents/Prime Ministers of Colombia, Greece, Mexico, Switzerland and Brazil (along with many other top world leaders) all have in common? As part of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, they issued a report late last week stating, “The […]

STOCKTON, CA– An outraged California man named Kenneth Wright is claiming that the United States Department of Education raided his home early in the morning, dragging him out in his underwear asking him questions about his and his estranged wife’s unpaid college loans.

While President Obama recently said in a speech that he doesn’t fear a double-dip recession, the same doesn’t hold true for the American public. In a new CNN poll, 48 percent of Americans not only fear a double-dip recession, but the second Great Depression. It is the highest percentage of respondents that have stated that […]

A recent study done by Northwestern University, titled “Children Media and Race,” shows that Black and Hispanic youth consume an average of four hours more of media every day than white children do — a difference that has increased tremendously in the past decade. Black Voices reports: The findings show Black and Hispanic youth consume […]