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With the current National Football League Collective Bargaining Agreement scheduled to expire on March 3, 2011 at 11:59 pm, the sports world is bracing itself for what appears to be a potential lockout of the 2011-2012 football season. The topic has been brewing for years, ever since the original labor agreement was signed in 1993 and...
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As yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, many reflected on the devastation it left behind and the rebuilding that remains to be done. While the damage and human casualty estimated was overwhelming, the excruciating anguish and misery it caused is immeasurable. Haiti, by all means, has been destroyed by this disaster and...
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Currently, America is in an economic bind. We are no longer leading the production of products, we lack the jobs necessary to allow people to spend for the services that drive our economy and politically this only means one solution can be brought to the table, tax cuts. Tax cuts seem to be a...
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The Sesame Street video “I Love My Hair” has almost 200,000 views and while many may be from young children a significant amount of the views are black women who have fallen in love with the song. Since the iconic children’s show aired in 1969 – during the Civil Rights Movement – up until today’s...
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Politics is one of the past times in America that we celebrate on a bi-annual basis. We love to hear and talk about political subjects during mid-term elections and when it’s time to place a new person in the White House. So any angry or bigoted behavior that we exhibit usually quells the day...
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Wouldn’t it be great if we lived in a world where politicians were judged for the laws they have passed instead of how many people they have helped get re-elected? Wouldn’t it be even better if we actually were informed about the substance of laws instead of the political relevance and strategic timing of...
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This past Saturday Fox News TV host Glenn Beck held his “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington D.C. where tens of thousands of people arrived to hear Beck’s message of faith, honor, and respect. Beck’s rally was held on the National Mall where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream”...
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Political hip hop duo, Dead Prez, once had a song entitled, It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop. But they weren’t talking about the diamonds on their necks or the size of their bank accounts. The controversial music group was instead describing their mission to empower their listeners to think outside the box and find ways to...
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Is President Obama’s race or religion too polarizing for America? Back in 2006 when then Senator Barack Obama was just a regular black guy from Illinois, no one really cared about his skin color. At the time he was the only black Senator in the United States and people had a horrific time trying...
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The hot-button topic in politics over the past week has been the proposed mosque near “ground zero”. Emotions have run high over a perceived slap in the face to some Americans by Islam because of their inconvenient worship of God taking place just two blocks from the site that terrorist, who happened to be...
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