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Former NBA star Lamar Odom was on a days-long bender before he fell unconscious at a brothel on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said Wednesday… Love Ranch employees confirmed that Odom had taken at least 10 sexual performance-enhancing herbal supplements over a three-day period at the brothel, and that he’d taken cocaine on Saturday. Odom, 35, was reportedly… Read more.
Throughout his career, Quentin Tarantino has been dogged by criticism over his Tourette’s-like use of the word “nigger” in his films. Therefore, it’s noteworthy that he decided to finally address this criticism. He did so in an interview with Bret Easton Ellis as part of a lengthy profile for the October 12 edition of the… Read more.
P.T. Barnum had an uncanny knack for getting poor people to part with their hard-earned money just to marvel at his “elaborate hoaxes.” His rival huckster, David Hannum, famously scoffed at this with the cynical observation that, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Tens of thousands of Black folks vindicated Hannum’s observation when they heeded Minister Louis Farrakhan’s… Read more.
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Frankly, the only thing I found shocking or disappointing about this viral tweet is that it provoked so much genuine outrage. After all, here is how I presaged this years ago in “Twitter Rant: Take 2,” November 27, 2012. ___________________ What is surprising, however, is that erstwhile pillars of Western civilization are taking to Twitter like… Read more.
For years, CARICOM leaders have been demanding billions in reparations from the British government for slavery. For just as long, I’ve been trying to disabuse them of their legally, politically and morally unsustainable demands. I tried in such commentaries as “The Fatally Flawed Demands for Reparations for Slavery,” February 16, 2007, and “CARICOM Demands for… Read more.
Move over, Barack and Michelle Obama! Apparently, America just got a new first family… According to Cosmopolitan, the Kardashians are the new reigning family. The magazine recently unveiled the cover for its November 2015 issue, featuring the [Kardashians]. (NBC TODAY, October 5, 2015) Not that the Obamas, America’s real first family, have anything to worry… Read more.
The world has been preoccupied in recent months with the man-made devastation still unfolding in Syria, which has triggered an unprecedented migration crisis in Europe. But Hurricane Joaquin is Mother Nature’s way of reminding us that she is capable of wreaking horrific devastation too. And, when Mother Nature charts her path of wrath, all one can do… Read more.
Pope Francis ended his historic ten-day visit to America on September 27. Just days later, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis began testifying about how he had invited her for a private audience and blessed her grandstanding defense of traditional marriage. No doubt you recall the media spectacle Davis created last month, when she “martyred” herself by… Read more.
A Volkswagen board member has admitted that some staff acted criminally over the emissions cheat tests. Olaf Lies, who is also economy minister of the German state of Lower Saxony, said those who allowed the deception to happen must take ‘personal responsibility’ for the fall-out. German prosecutors are leading probes by several countries into the scam… Read more.
