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"Common Language [Bookstore] Needs Your Support: There is no easy way to say this. Common Language is not making enough sales to support itself. Its very existence ( Read more... )

(ADOPTION) : What adopting a white girl taught a black family about race in the Obama era.

So-called transracial adoptions have surged since 1994, when the Multiethnic Placement Act reversed decades of outright racial matching by banning discrimination against adoptive families on the basis of race. But the growth has been all one-sided.An ( Read more... )

We'll have to watch and see if the "glitch" is fixed or not. This came to my notice when someone posted a link to Mark Probst's blog on the issue. If you want to act: Contact Amazon.ComUnderstanding that internet searches are governed by complicated algorithms (I barely know what that means) so things like this can happen. What matters is how ( Read more... )

Someone posted the question "What is your take on the Gaza situation ( Read more... )

Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, has had his bond revoked and been remanded to Wayne County Jail for violating bond by leaving the country without notifying the court.

edit: Listening to people here at work on this development, I can honestly say that I have not met a Republican who's main emotional response to the trouble of others isn't ( Read more... )

Jim D. Adkisson, 58, walked into a Knoxville, TN, Unitarian Universalist church yesterday during a children's production of Annie as fired a shotgun into the congregation. He is unconnected with this congregation ( Read more... )

I cannot stress enough, for those who want to compare Kilpatrick with Clinton...this isn't about sex. It's more like Nixom & GW Bush, people who think they're above the law.

Judge orders Kilpatrick to post $7,500 bond to remain out of jailJudge Ronald Giles of Detroit's 36th District Court changed Kilpatrick's bond from a personal bond in his ( Read more... )

Why Dunkin' Donuts shouldn't have caved in the controversy over Rachael Ray's 'kaffiyeh' scarf. By Lorraine Ali | Newsweek Web Exclusive

Let's face it, the real danger here is not the girly scarf charged with being a kaffiyeh, or that jihadists are purportedly using Dunkin' Donuts as a backdoor into America's malleable consciousness. It's that the ( Read more... )

The gas tax holiday is a joke, and an unfunny one at that ( Read more... )

12 criminal counts against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick...including several perjury charges carrying a maximum 15 year sentence ( Read more... )