Archive for June, 2010

OBAMA CRITICIZES GOP WHILE CALLING FEDERAL DEFICIT CONCERN, Wired from CNN
RACINE, Wisconsin (CNN) – President Barack Obama acknowledged Wednesday that the federal deficit is a significant concern, but he also criticized Republicans for obstructing what he called commonsense legislation and siding with big business. In a campaign-style speech and in answering questions from a crowd [...]

VAN DER SLOOT INDICTED ON WIRE FRAUD, EXTORTION CHARGES. Wired from CNN
(CNN) – A U.S. federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Joran van der Sloot on charges of wire fraud and extortion in connection with a plot to sell information about the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway’s remains in exchange for $250,000, officials said. An arrest [...]

JAMES IS THE TARGET OF MANY NBA TEAMS. WHERE WILL HE GO? Wired from ESPN
CLEVELAND – How will it all go down? We asked our experts for their best guesses on where the top-10 free agents will land this summer.
Where will LeBron James sign?

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop: Chicago Bulls. Though if playing with Wade and Bosh [...]

UN SAYS DOLLAR SHOULD BE REPLACED AS INTERNATIONAL STANDARD, Wired from CNN
NEW YORK – The dollar is an unreliable international currency and should be replaced by a more stable system, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs said in a report released Tuesday. The use of the dollar for international trade came under [...]

TEXAS TECH’S TUBERVILLE QUESTIONS BIG 12’s ENDURANCE, Wired from ESPN
LUBBOCK, TX – First-year Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville broke ranks with those inside the Big 12 who laud the efforts that kept the conference together and speak of a bright future for the 10-team league. In an interview Tuesday on Rivals Radio, Tuberville said [...]

WOMAN FACES JAIL FOR DISTURBING NEIGHBORS WITH LOUD SEX, Law.RightPundits.com
UNITED KINGDOM – Caroline Cartwright is in hot water  with British authorities and could go to jail for noisy sex with her husband. Yes, you read that right, jail for noisy sex. This isn’t the first time Cartwright has been in trouble for her loud love [...]

SOUTH CAROLINA DEFEATS UCLA TO CLAIM 1ST EVER WORLD SERIES TITLE, the Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. – Whit Merrifield’s RBI single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning gave South Carolina its first baseball national championship with a 2-1 victory over UCLA in the College World Series on Tuesday night. The Gamecocks (54-16) [...]

CAN WHITES EVER REALLY UNDERSTAND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE? by Deborrah Cooper
CONFUSED IN THE BLACK LOVE: Dear Deborrah, I have been in a relationship that I would like to think of as a healthy one, but there are things that I just do not know about him. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area [...]

Charles Rouse III, Sports Editor
BUTLER, DEJESUS BOTH DESERVING OF ALL-STAR HONOR, by Charles Rouse

KANSAS CITY – With the 81st major-league All-Star Game a fortnight away, fans in big league cities across this vast country are generously casting votes for spots in the starting lineup for their favorite American and National League stars. Because fan balloting [...]

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COLLEGE UNNECESSARILY, by Karen Ditko
(Money Central MSN.com) – When I was younger, the plan for my future was pretty straightforward. You go to high school to learn, get good grades, and get into a good college. You go to college to get good grades and then get a [...]