By Robert Kutner
December 6, 2009
It was the best of Obama; it was the worst of Obama.
I was pleasantly surprised to be invited to the White House jobs summit last Thursday, where I got to watch President Obama engage with about 130 people off ...
Posted Wednesday, December 9th 2009 at 1:12PM
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Movie producer Tyler Perry announced on his Web site that his mother, Willie Maxine Perry, died Tuesday. "My mother is the wisdom of Madea, " Perry said. She was 64.
"Thank you for all your prayers," Perry said on the "e-mail messages from Tyler" ...
Posted Tuesday, December 8th 2009 at 9:55PM
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While going through some of my old things this weekend, I came across a ticket stub from a 2000 Teen Summit. I attended the summit in September 2000, sponsored by the New Orleans Public Schools system and hip-hop/R&B stations WQUE-FM and KMEZ-FM in N ...
Posted Tuesday, December 8th 2009 at 3:17PM
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The following is an actual question given on University of Arizona chemistry mid- term.
The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasur ...
Posted Sunday, December 6th 2009 at 5:51PM
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By all accounts, Disney's animated fairy-tale "The Princess and the Frog," which opens next Friday (Dec. 11) in New Orleans, is a warm, family-friendly affair, telling the story of a New Orleans girl named Tiana who puckers up for an amphibian in a t ...
Posted Saturday, December 5th 2009 at 8:53PM
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Jameshia Conner, 12, was found strangled and dumped in an alley near her home after being missing for two weeks.
Authorities believe that Jameshia was only dead one day before her body was found, although she had been missing two weeks.
The f ...
Posted Friday, December 4th 2009 at 3:46PM
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MADISON, Wis. – A Wisconsin teen has accused her father of choking her and ordering her to eat cockroaches and a dead mouse.
The 15-year-old Madison area girl testified Wednesday during her father’s child abuse trial in Dane County that she wa ...
Posted Friday, December 4th 2009 at 3:38PM
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From FinalCall.com
December 1, 2009
The nation's attention has been captured by the cell phone video of 16-year-old honor student Derrion Albert being beaten to death.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and I believe G ...
Posted Thursday, December 3rd 2009 at 12:36PM
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It came a week later than planned, but little Jasmina Anema's wish was finally granted Wednesday.
The leukemia-stricken Manhattan girl met President Obama in the White House - and spent 10 magical minutes with him.
"It was like they were reall ...
Posted Thursday, December 3rd 2009 at 11:46AM
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A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed.
She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front him. He appears deep in thought, just ...
Posted Tuesday, December 1st 2009 at 3:53PM
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CHICAGO (CBS) ¯ It was a violent and deadly holiday weekend in the Chicago area, with nine people reported slain between Wednesday and Sunday nights.
The violence began around 5 p.m. Thanksgiving eve, when Shannon Moore, 18, was found lying on ...
Posted Tuesday, December 1st 2009 at 3:40PM
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WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to lay out a time frame for winding down the American involvement in the war in Afghanistan when he announces his decision this week to send more forces, senior administration officials said Sunday.
Although th ...
Posted Tuesday, December 1st 2009 at 3:08PM
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1. Why is it called the World Series, when it is only played in America?
Other nations play baseball.
2. Why is it called the Black National Championship in football?
There are several whites that play on the teams that win.
3. Why is i ...
Posted Sunday, November 29th 2009 at 6:49PM
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PARKLAND, Wash. - A gunman walked into a coffee shop and shot and killed four police officers Sunday morning in what sheriff's officials described as a targeted "execution."
The officers were sitting in the cafe at a strip mall near the Tacoma sub ...
Posted Sunday, November 29th 2009 at 6:22PM
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They made a love connection in cyberspace, two lonely strangers in their 40s, each long divorced and yearning for new romance.
By all accounts, Jose Rodriguez-Cruz and Pam Butler were a happy couple for most of their five months together. “This ...
Posted Thursday, November 26th 2009 at 5:15PM
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An Obituary You Really Must Read.
An Obituary printed in the London Times
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were ...
Posted Tuesday, November 24th 2009 at 1:32PM
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Panel discussion featuring Minister Farrakhan and others at Thorton Township High School on June 20, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Posted Monday, November 23rd 2009 at 11:35AM
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GIRLS want to control the man in their life.
GROWN WOMEN know that if he's truly hers, he doesn't need controlling.
GIRLS check you out for not calling them.
GROWN WOMEN are too busy to realize you hadn't.
GIRLS are afraid to be alone.
GROWN ...
Posted Monday, November 23rd 2009 at 10:36AM
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Dozens of African-American churches in California have allegedly fallen victim to a scam involving computer kiosks. The scheme cost the churches hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Up to 30 churches in California may have fall ...
Posted Sunday, November 22nd 2009 at 9:26PM
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Calling the ruling “huge,” New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday reacted to a federal judge finding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to maintain a shipping channel led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina.
Nagin said ...
Posted Sunday, November 22nd 2009 at 9:23PM
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