Colin Powell Jokes He’s Happy To Be Anywhere But The White House
Mount Pleasant, Mich. – Retired four-star general and former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was used to having everything; a private jet, security guards and attention from millions of Americans. Now he has none of that stuff. At some point in his life, Powell was okay with with all those things, but not anymore. “I [...]
Awkward: Barbara Walters Asks The Obamas How They ‘Keep the Fire Going’
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock all your life, you know that Barbara Walters is all fluff and no substance. So nobody expects her to ask tough questions, but we don’t expect her to make us all cringe. And that’s what the 83 year old journalist did when she asked the president and first [...]
U.S. Prison Population Has Grown 27 Times Faster Than the Rate of Population Growth
In America, there is a rush to lock people away in cages, evidenced by the prison population in this country. America has 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s prisoner’s, and it’s not getting any better. AllGov reports: Driven by an ever-escalating “war on drugs,” the number of federal prisoners incarcerated [...]
Woman’s Boyfriend Hid Crack in her Attic: She Got Life in Prison without Parole
If you don’t think that the War on Drugs has had a terrible impact on American families, you only need to look at the case of Stephanie George. If your boyfriend is a dope dealer and he hides his crack in your attic without your knowledge, you would expect that the courts would understand. But [...]
NFL Player Kissed His Girlfriend, Daughter after Homicide
The Kansas City Star released a detailed report on the final moments of the life of NFL player Jovan Belcher. Belcher, who played for the Kansas City Chiefs, shot himself and his girlfriend after an argument this weekend. According to the Star, Belcher kissed his girlfriend after shooting her and apologized. He also kissed [...]
Julianne Malveaux Speaks on Public Policy that Hurts the Poor
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Discussions of the fiscal cliff also include discussions about ways to change Social Security and Medicare benefits in order to save money. One of the proposals is to raise the Social Security retirement age to 70. After all, some argue, there is nothing magic about 65 or 67, so why [...]
Virginia Republican Party Official: ‘Obama Will Go to H*ll’
Virginia Republican party official Bob FitzSimmonds is, apparently, no different than the rest of his Party; consumed with hatred of President Obama and fixated on a Bible he doesn’t understand. To demonstrate just how unhinged FitzSimmonds is, consider that FitzSimmonds, a good friend of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, posted on Facebook that Obama would live a [...]
The Black Community: The Oppressor’s Playground
by Maria Lloyd This past weekend, four African-American-male juveniles were arrested for shooting and killing a 54-year-old vietnam veteran in Granite City, Ill. I send my deepest condolences to the family members and friends of the victim, Charles Weiss — a man who survived physical war for the United States of America, but died in [...]
Morons and Idiots Lost Big Last Night
Last night was a bad night for both low IQ voters or candidates. In Missouri, Todd Akin, the man who believes that a woman’s body can purge a pregnancy if the pregnancy is the result of a “legitimate rape”, went down in flames, ushering Senator Claire McCaskill to a second term. Dead beat dad Joe [...]
How to Talk to Your Kids About Their Online Life
With 1.6 million children running away from their homes each year, it’s crucial that parents understand the critical need to monitor their children’s social media use, keeping track of who they are talking to online, what they are sharing and when. For many parents, the main barrier to monitoring their children’s online life is [...]
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