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Illegal Search or Unreasonable Citizen: California Family
Below the break you will see a video of a family declining a vehicle search by some sort of California Agriculture inspector. They are later pulled over by California State Police and arrested. The...
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Movie Reviews: Dirty Weekend, Kill The Irishman, Bad Teacher
Dirty Weekenddirected by Neil LaButeOK judging by this film Matthew Broderick may need to do some running, cut back on the carbs and hit the weight room. But you could say that about a lot of people...
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Black Women Win at the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
#AboutLastNightThis happened.This happened.And this happened.Just take a minute and bask in all of that glorious dark skinned Black womanness. Isn't it awesome.Just three years ago the interwebs were...
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Ben Carson is a bigot
Black conservatives often complain that people, by which they mean liberals and/or other black people (and those two groups are not mutually exclusive), try to question their blackness or expel them...
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Book Reviews: Off Color, Impaired Judgment
Off Color: The Violent History of Detroit's Purple Gangby Daniel WaughAlthough the Purple Gang has passed into infamy and is mostly forgotten now, for a brief period of time it was probably the most...
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Facebook Threat Posts: Pebbles and Bam Bam
Every time someone goes on a shooting rampage the people who knew the assailant are either shocked and heartbroken (usually the assailant's parents) or they are not surprised at all. The people who...
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George Zimmerman Tweets Trayvon Martin's Dead Body
I've wrestled with writing about this story since I saw it surface at work early yesterday morning. At this point it's a proven fact that George Zimmerman is a pretty despicable human being. He's said...
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Movie Reviews: Playing It Cool, The Impostors
Playing It Cooldirected by Justin ReardonRomantic comedies are usually pretty cliched. You (with the occasional exception of films like Annie Hall, 500 Days of Summer orDon Jon) pretty much know how...
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A House Divided
Facing yet another federal government shutdown due to the Republican Party's opposition to Planned Parenthood, House Speaker, John Boehner, shocked the political world when he announced his resignation...
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Book Reviews: Dead Men's Boots
Dead Men's Bootsby Mike CareyI like authors who work magic and the supernatural into the everyday mundane affairs of modern humans. Jim Butcher, Nicholas Kaufman and Neil Gaiman are some of the better...
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Deadly Police Shooting of 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Deemed Justified
12-year-old Tamir Rice was killed last November seconds after Cleveland police arrived to the park where he was playing with a toy gun. It is that toy gun, that no longer had its orange tipped cap,...
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Recap: The First Democratic Debate
Five democratic candidates for President of the United States took the debate stage in Las Vegas last night to face off over the issues for the very first time. Lincoln Chafee, Jim Webb, Bernie...
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Television Reviews: Power (Season One), The Strain (Season Two)
Power (Season One)This was a gift from my brother. I liked it more than I thought I would although it was crammed full of plotholes, unrealistic writing and leaps in logic. Nevertheless it sort of grew...
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Jim Webb Quits Presidential Race
Well that didn't take too long and really wasn't that surprising. Jim Webb announced today that he is dropping his race for President -- as a Democrat. He is not willing just yet to say no to the idea...
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#RIP Corey Jones
A Black man is killed by a police officer off of I-95 in Florida. Scratch that. Corey Jones, a drummer at his church, is killed by a non-white police officer who was in plain clothes in an unmarked...
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RushCard Ripoff and The Vampire State
Driving home the other day and being atypically uninterested in whatever show the Sirius old time radio station was playing I turned over to a station which was playing Karen Hunter and caught the...
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Television Reviews: The Last Kingdom
The Last KingdomThis new BBC America series is based on Bernard Cornwell's series of historical novels set in 9th century England around the time of King Alfred the Great. In some aspects it shares DNA...
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Ben Carson and Donald Trump Watch the Democratic Debate
It is possible, albeit not likely that either Trump or Carson will be the next President of the United States. For the first time in the race, Carson is moving ahead of Trump in the Iowa polls....
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South Carolina Cop Assaults Spring Valley High School Student
I used to work with high school students when I was an undergraduate in my 20's. As teenagers, they can be frustrating to work with and, on occasion, I'd have to have a few tough conversations about...
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Book Reviews: Detroit: An American Autopsy, Finn Family Moomintroll
Detroit: An American Autopsyby Charlie LeDuffCharlie LeDuff is a local "Caucasian" (more on that in a minute because it is relevant) Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, gadfly, pain in the a$$ and media...
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