15 Oct 2009

Interracial couple denied marriage license due to JOP’s concerns

Well, it's happened, despite the fact that interracial marriages are legal: A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it

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12 Jul 2009

Young Republican election proves the GOP will continue to be the party of Palin

Over at The Daily Beast, John Avlon has a couple of stories about the Young Republican's Chair, Audra Shay, and how she managed to be elected to the position.  Per Avlon, conservative Shay's 470 – 415 win over “center-right”  Rachel Hoff was spurred on by her laugh out loud endorsements

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10 Jul 2009

NJ Assembly unapologetic about use of the N word

Republican State Assembly candidate Lee Lucas dropped the N word during a 2006 dispute with neighbors.  When questioned by police, Lucas not only freely admitted to using the epithet, he was completely unapologetic about his decision to use a word that most can agree ispretty darned offensive: “Yeah, I said

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29 Jun 2009

The role of the Governor is to learn to be a better person and serve G-d?

Mark Sanford is tellin his PAC that he's refusing to resign because being Governor is what's best for him regardless of what's best for his state: “I would ultimately be a better person and of more service in whatever doors God opened next in life if I stuck around to

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16 Jun 2009

funniest comment to escape the mouth of that schmuck Spencer Pratt

A complete diversion but a funny one  (either that or I'm so beaten down by the economy I can find humor anywhere).  As I'm sure you've all heard, despite trying to avoid all news Speidi, there was a little smackdown between Al Roker and Heidi Brat Pratt the other day.

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13 May 2009

FDA cracks down on corporate drug dealers

In this case, the renegade drug company is none other than General Mills purveyors of such nasty contraband as Cheerios®. My first reaction was to crack up hysterically at what, on the surface, appears to be histrionics in the face of overblown health claims for something that is no more

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05 Jan 2009

Child disappears, parents don’t care until they’re questioned 10 years later

Twenty-one year old Adam Herrman has been missing since about 1999.  Unfortunately, his parents who adopted him after fostering him failed to notify the authorities of the boy's disappearance. . . for 10 years. Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise, who is representing Adam's adoptive parents, said the couple “really rue the

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02 Jan 2009

2009 Predictions

All one has to do to confirm that I have absolutely no psychic abilities is to look at the decisions I've made in my life about men and more than 1 job, however, I'm pretty confident predicting that AirTran will lose (or quickly settle) one lawsuit that has yet to

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25 Dec 2008

The War On Christmas: The War Within

Every year at Christmastime which, sometimes, starts as early as Halloween, I start what seems to be a tradition of posts on the so-called “War on Christmas.” The now annual battles start with Christianity's biggest loudest, most obnoxious and, by default, morally superior defenders throwing down the gauntlet to challenge

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21 Dec 2008

The only thing that’s attractive about Ne-Yo is his bank account

and in this economy, maybe we can hope that Ne-Yo's ode to High Yellow hits his biggest asset. Ne-Yo recently made the following comments to a couple of radio DJs during an interview All the prettiest kids is light skinned anyway . . . Essence (and a bunch of other

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