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According to USA Today, the House and Senate have agreed to fundamentally change the way sexual misconduct allegations are handled in Congress, making legislators bear the financial burden for settlements instead of taxpayers. The new bill is an update of the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA) which has governed how lawmakers and their aides report sexual […]

A white teen who killed four innocent people last June during a drunken joy ride in Texas is having his rehab treatment largely funded by the public. Ethan Couch was spared jail time by a judge after a doctor diagnosed him with “affluenza.” The “condition” is defined as having a sense of entitlement so extreme […]

According to the Daily Kos, the mass school closings in Chicago will cost taxpayers $1 billion, including $676,000 per school to bolster safety programs. Many are deeply concerned for the safety of students forced to traverse gang territory to get to class.

The White House and its GOP conspirators are cheering the passing of a bill which many experts have warned will only benefit those who are at the top of the American tax brackets, worsening the economic outlook of the (working) poor and middle class. White-folk-President has already hailed his plan as the “largest tax cut” […]

  A Texas-based city council member is standing by racist remarks made public during a taped conversation in a parking lot despite calls for her resignation. La Marque City Council member Connie Trube’s comments were made public Monday evening. 

Last week, The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the Obama Administration’s latest initiative. Not to be outdone by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the administration has announced a sequel of its own featuring children competing. The POTUS et. al. has ponied up an addition $100 million in federal funds to public high schools. […]

This past week I became the facebook user that monotonously began searching through the lives, thoughts, and ideas of my fb friends through the convenience of my fb wall. I came upon a status update from a person that will remain nameless, that said “I make HIV look soo good.” A few thoughts cross my […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaU_pE0fv-s The first TV ads have been launched by the Obama campaign to generate support for the 2012 election. It is estimated that the cost of his re-election bid could be somewhere between $750 million and $1 billion dollars. That is a lot of money. Especially for a country that is in such a stressful […]

The number of Beast is a term in the Book of Revelation, of the New Testament, that is associated with the first Beast of Revelation chapter 13, the Beast of the sea. In most manuscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible, the number of the Beast is 666. Those who […]

Afternoon RoundUp September 9, 2011 The internet has been freaking out today at the prospect of fast food chains like McDonalds, Wendys and Taco Bell accepting food stamps from customers. You’ve got one side arguing that nobody, rich or poor, should be utilizing a tax payer-funded program like food stamps to buy junk food like […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG_Gvd4PFFo&feature=related As a follow-up to The Viral Video, EBT: We Have Failed You Chapter…An Open Letter, I want to talk about a comment that I received frequently about Chapter’s character in the EBT video. Many people have emailed me saying that they agree with my blog, but that they also know black women who do […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII&feature=youtu.be Dear Chapter, Once upon a time when I was a little brown girl and the economy was really bad because of Reganomics, my “employed” and single black mother received food assistance to help feed her two daughters because her minimal wage check could not fully cover rent and the daily luxuries of milk, eggs, […]