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[15 May 2013 | One Comment]
Teenager Declines Michigan State Football Scholarship To Pursue Rap Career

Pennsylvania athlete, Jay Harris, has reportedly turned down a football scholarship from Michigan State University to focus on a rap career?


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[14 May 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Police ID 19-Year-Old Suspect In New Orleans Mother’s Day Shooting

Police in New Orleans have named a 19-year-old man, accused in the weekend shooting during a Mother’s Day parade.


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[3 May 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Boston Bombings Suspects Changed From White To Brown On Magazine Cover

Boston terror suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had their complexions darkened on a magazine cover.


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[3 May 2013 | Leave A Comment]
NYC Police Commissioner Says 75% Of Crimes In The City Are Committed By Blacks

New York City’s “stop-and-frisk” policy has drawn ire over alleged racial profiling.


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[22 Apr 2013 | 2 Comments]
Authorities Failed During The Hunt For Boston Bomber Suspects

For more than a decade after 9/11, law enforcement officials and our government have made this mantra something more than part of our culture.


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[19 Apr 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Boston Bomb Suspect’s Mother Says FBI Set Her Sons Up

With the death of Boston Marathon suspect Tamerlan Tsarnayev, and the manhunt still on for his 19-year old brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev


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[19 Apr 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Everything We Know About The Boston Marathon Bomber Suspect

Two suspects have been identified in the Boston Marathon bombing, two brothers of Chechen origin with the last name Tsarnaev.


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[15 Apr 2013 | Leave A Comment]
BREAKING NEWS! Boston Marathon Ends With Multiple Explosions Near Finish Line (Video)

The explosions occurred about 2:45 p.m EST., about an hour after the first runners had crossed the finish line, Frucci said. Authorities at 3:5pm EST confirmed that two bombs caused the explosions.


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[11 Apr 2013 | Leave A Comment]
White House Responds To Concerns Over Jay-Z’s ‘Open Letter’

Jay-Z’s latest song, “Open Letter”, which hit the airwaves Thursday (April 11), has spread quickly… even to the White House.


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[11 Apr 2013 | Leave A Comment]
U.S. Senator Rand Paul Visits Howard University

What was Rand Paul, a white Republican senator from Kentucky, doing at Howard University, a mostly black campus in Washington DC?


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[8 Apr 2013 | Leave A Comment]
The ATF Wants ‘Massive’ Online Database to Find Out Who Your Friends Are

The ATF doesn’t just want a huge database to reveal everything about you with a few keywords. It wants one that can find out who you know.


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[5 Apr 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Symbols of Bush-era Lawlessness Flourish Under Obama

Two of the most controversial elements of the so called Global War on Terror were the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation program and Guantanamo Bay.


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[3 Apr 2013 | One Comment]
Texas Student Suspended For Writing ‘YOLO’ On Exam & Tweeting It

“YOLO” is still a thing. The acronym for a You Only Live Once got a Texas high school student suspended when he wrote it on an exam and tweeted the evidence


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[1 Apr 2013 | Leave A Comment]
YouTube’s April Fools Prank Tricks Millions

Was it predictable? Yes, but Youtube’s April Fool’s prank still managed to trick a whole lot of people


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[26 Mar 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Anatomy Of America’s SuperMax Prison

A supermax security prison is not for any type of criminal. It is for the most dangerous types of criminals.


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[20 Mar 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Chart Proves Mainstream Media Lying About Unemployment

The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a “four-year low” of 7.7 percent.


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[3 Mar 2013 | One Comment]
Fresh Prince Theme Song Causes High School Lock Down

9-year-old Travis Clawson had a super shitty day on Thursday after his outgoing voicemail message was mistaken for a mass shooting threat.


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[27 Feb 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Titanic Replica Plans: Titanic II To Sail Across The Globe In 2016

The sunken ship that spawned a blockbuster film (and an uberdramatic Celine Dion ballad) is getting a resurrection, thanks to a Titanic replica plan.


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[25 Feb 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace

The point at which online higher education becomes mainstream is no longer in some fuzzy hypothetical future.


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[20 Feb 2013 | Leave A Comment]
Human intelligence is declining according to Stanford geneticist

Ever can’t help but think you’re surrounded by idiots? A leading scientist at Stanford University thinks the bad news is things aren’t likely to get any better.