Samuel L Jackson : As real as it gets
TweetLeave it to Samuel L. Jackson to keep it real. In an interview with Ebony Magazine, the actor has no shame in his game that he voted for President Obama because of his race:
TweetTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mitt Romney routed Newt Gingrich in the Florida primary Tuesday night, rebounding smartly from an earlier defeat and taking a major step toward the Republican presidential nomination. Despite the one-sided setback, the former House speaker vowed to press on.
Continue reading …Finance Jedi Warren Buffett puts money where his mouth is … take that Congress
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TweetWarren Buffett will be writing a check made out to the United States Treasury for just over $49,000 to help pay down the national debt. He’s matching voluntary contributions made this year and last year by Rep. Scott Rigell, a Republican representing Virginia.
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TweetKim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, was named by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA as the “great successor” to his father, which lauded him as “the outstanding leader of our party, army and people.” Little is known of Jong-un who is believed to be in his late 20s and was appointed to senior political [...]
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TweetPANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — More than two decades after the U.S. forced him from power, Manuel Noriega returned to Panama on Sunday as a prisoner and, to many of those he once ruled with impunity, an irrelevant man. Some Panamanians feel hatred for the former strongman and rejected American ally; a few others nostalgia. [...]
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TweetA Black driver is seven times as likely to be stopped by police as a white driver in Milwaukee, a new study has found.
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TweetMILWAUKEE-Fourteen people were charged with running a massive drug ring in Milwaukee after a rap video called “Trap House Money” led investigators to indict them for drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun offenses.
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TweetThe Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or super committee, tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in cuts in government spending, has been a super failure. President Obama placed the blame for the failure squarely at the feet of Republican lawmakers. “They continue to insist on protecting $100 billion worth of tax cuts for the wealthiest [...]
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TweetForbes magazine’s inaugural ranking of Africa’s 40 richest revealed Nigeria’s cement king, Aliko Dangote, as the top earner. Dangote’s net worth was ranked at $10.1 billion.
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TweetAfrican-Americans are twice as likely to be foreclosed upon than whites, according to a new study from the Center for Responsible Lending and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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