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Is Herman Cain a serious contender?
GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain is having the best week ever. Last week he won the over hyped Florida straw poll with 37.5% of the vote, nearly doubling the percentage of votes won by the second place candidate Governor Rick Perry. So it sounds like Herman is kicking ass and taking names right? What if [...]
Media Fail: Obama’s speech to Congressional Black Caucus wasn’t a lecture
If all you saw in the mainstream media about President Obama’s speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference Saturday night was the AP story, then you are woefully misinformed as to what the President actually said. As soon as the AP story, “Obama Tells Blacks to ‘Stop Complainin’ and Fight” hit the wire, [...]
Oh Please Tavis Smiley Cry Me A River
Talk show host Tavis Smiley and his sidekick Princeton Professor Cornel West are currently on their promotional “Poverty Tour” to 15 cities to raise awareness about poverty in America. And since poverty in America started on January 21, 2009, they are making very clear who is to blame for the current living conditions of the [...]
Amy Winehouse and the bystander effect
“The bystander effect [] is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases where individuals do not offer any means of help in an emergency situation to the victim when other people are present. The probability of help has in the past been thought to be inversely related to the number of bystanders; in other [...]
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Why the hell did Obama sign the indefinite detention bill?