Wait, I Thought POTUS Wasn’t Dancing With The Ones Who Brought Him? And That He Needed To Go To Georgia And Learn About The “Black Experience”? And That He Doesn’t Care About Black People? News: President Barack Obama appointed DeKalb County District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming to be the next regional Environmental Protection Agency administrator. Fleming announced her resignation Wednesday. [...]
Hey, Tony. Remember When I Told You When You First Started Working For Me, The Guys That Last In This Business, Are The Guys Who Fly Straight. Low-Key, Quiet. But The Guys Who Want It All, Chicas, Champagne, Flash… They Don’t Last News: Authorities in Mexico revealed additional details Tuesday about an accused American-born drug kingpin [...]
WEE Don’t Believe You, You Need More People News: The attorney for Michael Enright, the New York City college student charged with attempted murder as a hate crime for allegedly stabbing a Muslim cab driver Tuesday, denied that his client had acted out of hatred for Muslims. Read more here. (Side note: Why does it [...]
Hurricane Katrina- 5 Years Later News: A mother of four feels trapped in the same New Orleans public housing complex from which she was rescued when flood waters ravaged the city. Ninety miles to the east on U.S. 90, an elderly couple in Biloxi, Miss., are resigned to life in a government-issued cottage surrounded by [...]
Housing Market News: Sales of previously owned homes plunged 27.2% nationally in July — fallout from the expiration of a popular federal tax credit that had fueled the market for much of the year. The big drop, which was worse than what many analysts had expected, sent stock markets tumbling Tuesday morning as investors feared [...]
Y’all Still Owe Us Some More Money News: In its single biggest repayment of bailout loans so far, American International Group said Monday that it is paying back $3.95 billion in taxpayer loans with proceeds from a recent debt sale. The insurer’s aircraft leasing company, International Lease Finance Corp., completed the sale of $4.4 billion in debt. [...]
First Family News: President Obama and the first family today escape from life inside the Washington beltway and retreat to the summer vacation island of Martha’s Vineyard, where they’ll soak up the sun and enjoy time together as a family. Read more here. J-O-B-S Where Are The Jobs, Bitches? News: Applications for unemployment benefits in the [...]
They Are Who We Thought They Were News: Rupert Murdoch’s News America Inc has donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association ahead of November’s US mid-term elections. The donation from News America Inc, the parent company of Fox News, helped the RGA more than double its fundraising in the second quarter of 2010. The association [...]
POTUS/2010 Mid-Term Elections News: President Barack Obama painted Republicans as obstructionist allies of corporate America on Monday as he crossed the United States campaigning for his fellow Democrats fighting to keep control of the U.S. Congress and for state governorships in November’s elections. Read more here. Israel/Palestine News: White House denies giving Turkey ultimatum over [...]
Say A Prayer For The Family News: Skeletal remains found Monday in a remote area of California’s Malibu Canyon are those of Mitrice Richardson, who has been missing for nearly a year, a family friend told CNN Thursday. Rhonda Hampton said the coroner’s office called Richardson’s mother, Latice Sutton, Thursday morning to report that a positive [...]
POTUS News: President Barack Obama Tuesday signed a $26 billion aid package to states hours after the U.S. House passed it and sent it to his desk. The vote on the bill, which provides money to pay for public service workers such as teachers and police officers and funds medical care for the poor, was 247-161, [...]
