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Once again, white Democrats and their very harmonious choir of black supporters are clearing their throats and sharpening their rhetoric to undermine the professional integrity of another black judge, Janice Brown, who has been appointed – by yet another President Bush (George W) – to be the first black woman on the Federal DC Circuit… Read more.

  Ted Kennedy stood like a bellowing tower of moral outrage as he appealed to the conscience of his fellow fat-cat Senators to grant the poor workers of America a measly raise in their minimum wages. Sen. Kennedy wasn’t asking for billions more for corporate welfare or billions more for unnecessary military procurements. And that,… Read more.

Dan Rather: I did it my way… Today marks the end of an era for Broadcast News in America. After 24 years, Dan Rather of CBS News reads his final news lines tonight as he bows to the decision of his corporate bosses to sign off, permanently. But, unlike the graceful exit of his rival… Read more.

Captain America? Australian actor Russell Crowe (Gladiator, Master and Commander, etc) revealed today that the FBI informed him in 2003 that he was the target of an Al Qaeda plot. Russell claims that Osama bin Laden planned to follow up his 9/11 strike on New York’s Twin Towers with the kidnapping of “an iconic American”.… Read more.

Today, in a redeeming and long overdue display of equal justice, the UN Tribunal in The Hague indicted the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, for war crimes committed against ethnic Serbs. But, there will be no justice if Haradinaj is treated to the same kind of farcical and interminable trial that is ongoing for… Read more.

Gay Anglican Bishop Gene Robinson can be forgiven his forlorn hope that – in singing ‘we shall overcome … someday’ – he will inspire black bishops to repent their homophobia and embrace him as one of God’s good shepherds too. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, is at his wits end trying to prevent… Read more.

Camille, why do you stay? Bill Cosby has now joined the rogue’s gallery of celebrity men who have betrayed their marital vows in ways that brought public humiliation, shame and disgrace on their families. Last Thursday he issued a written statement admitting inappropriate behavior and expressing regret that the whole damn thing had become such… Read more.

News junkies are salivating over the titillating prospect of a CNN Anchor – Anderson Cooper – being outed this week by Michael Musto, the gay outing crusader of the Village Voice newspaper. Musto distinguished himself by hounding celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres about their closeted lifestyles until they found the “courage” to come… Read more.

Out of sight, out of mind: America remains a dead-beat Dad to its bastard children Last week, Haiti erupted in unwieldy political violence and demonstrated, once again, that law and order remain elusive in that infernal paradise – despite (unfulfilled) UN peacekeeping mandates and (promises of) American economic assistance. Haiti was the first independent black… Read more.