It hasn’t been an easy road to redemption for Kanye West. After snatching the microphone from sweet little Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the big, bad rapper was vilified by a nation. That one Hennessey-inspired impulse to storm the stage, declare his love for Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” video, and interrupt the [...]
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Senate Republicans Block Debate On Campaign Finance Bill
Posted by on September 30th, 2010
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday stood fast in blocking legislation requiring special interest groups running campaign ads to identify their donors. Mirroring a Senate vote on the bill last July, all 39 Republicans who voted stopped Democrats from bringing the campaign disclosure bill to the Senate floor. The 59-39 vote fell one short of [...]
Wajahat Ali: Fighting Wells Fargo and Foreclosure
Posted by on September 30th, 2010
Could it be that the best chance to save a young family from foreclosure is a 28-year-old Pakistani American playwright/attorney who learned bankruptcy law on the internet? I was late when I first met my clients, the Lipkin family, outside my office. I was very late. I couldn’t believe I was late. I felt like [...]
Nancy Doyle Palmer: Real Housewives of DC Season Ender – She said, She Said
Posted by on September 30th, 2010
With Thursday’s first of the two-part season-ending finale focusing on the White House gate-crashing episode on Bravo’s” Real Housewives of DC” it’s time for an update – what the Washington Post is saying about them , what Bravo is saying about them and what they’re saying about each other. (The Post accuses Bravo of time [...]
Alberto Contador Tests Positive For Steroid
Posted by on September 30th, 2010
PARIS — Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain tested positive for a banned steroid in winning this year’s race and has been suspended by cycling’s governing body. A World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited lab in Cologne, Germany, found a “very small concentration” of clenbuterol in Contador’s urine sample on July 21 at the Tour, [...]
