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The year 2000 was a good time to be an Arab-American Republican. For the first time in the community’s history, a presidential candidate had come courting. Then-Texas Governor George W. Bush was determined to woo Michigan’s Arab-American voters in the run-up to that November’s election, which meant targeting Dearborn, the vote-rich Detroit suburb where one-third…
After Comedy Central announced yesterday that it’s decided to cancel The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, last night’s episode went from a typical election season episode to one of the last four episodes ever, and Wilmore opened the show with some thoughts on the sad news. After thanking Comedy Central, the Nightly Show staff, and…
Four years ago, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Gabby Douglas became the first black American woman to win gymnastics’ most prestigious title: Olympic individual all-around champion. She was 16 at the time, a bundle of flash and grace in a metallic leotard. Looking back at her best event, the uneven bars, is like…
The trailer for new film Hidden Figures debuted this weekend and, I kid you not, watching it gives me chills. The film, which is landing in theaters in January 2017, is based on the true story of African American women who worked as mathematicians and engineers for NASA in the 1960s. They were the original…
Historically, American fathers dreamed that their sons would grow up to be greater men than they were. That was before the dreaded “millennial” generation. http://deadspin.com/grip-it-good-6… Today, cold hard science proves that the “millennial” male is a weak and tepid creature with the handshake of a wilted lettuce leaf. A disgraceful new study finds that today’s…
Imagine my plight: I, a full-grown American male, would like nothing better than to do my own laundry. But where is the detergent for me? Everywhere, the scents are flowery meadow this, springtime seabreeze that. Finally, a new contender emerges—FREY enters the fray—and I am liberated at last. While reading Drug Store News, my trustiest…
Friends of Juanita Broaddrick protest on the sidewalk in front of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate campaign headquarters in New York, Aug. 19, 2000. Photo via AP BuzzFeed’s Katie J.M. Baker just published an excellent, nuanced and confounding profile of Juanita Broaddrick, the 73-year-old Arkansas woman who has said for years that Bill Clinton raped her….
Republican insiders are more convinced than Democrats that Donald Trump is so far behind Hillary Clinton that he can’t win in November. Roughly half of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states — believe that Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes is basically shut off after another…
SBJ/Aug. 15-21, 2016/On The Ground in Rio USOC exec Larry Buendorf has spent the last 23 years protecting Team USA, and the 23 years before that protecting the president. Photo by: BEN FISCHER / STAFF Photo by: AP IMAGES There’s no such thing as a low profile for Team USA at the Olympics, but Chief…
Almost 2 years ago, the website Nerd Approved posted a sneak peek at what could potentially be an animated series based on none other than the cult classic Joss Whedon show ‘Firefly’. Now, it looks like the show may actually become a reality. Created by artist Stephen Byrne, ‘The Animated Adventures of Firefly’ follows the…