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The NFL is here and with that comes spreads, over/unders and totals. Indeed it is a billion dollar industry for Las Vegas. While I’d recommend sitting out Week 1, this is what I’d do if I were a betting man this Week 1 2016. Tampa Bay at Atlanta...
They’re not sending their best. They’re bringing crimes. They’re rapists. And some of them, I assume, are good people.” – Sioux Chief Sitting Bull regarding the European/American illegal immigration into the First Nations territory. No, Sitting Bull didn’t say that. What he did say sounds much more like the words...
We all make the world a better place. Some when we enter it, some when we leave. Phyllis Schlafly is dead. The 92-year-old conservative writer and founder of the Eagle Forum helped torpedo the Equal Rights Amendment 40 years ago. In the case of Phyllis Schlafly, Nils Bohr applies. Progress...
In an interview with Billboard, Yachty revealed that he “honestly couldn’t name five songs” from the two rappers who are widely regarded as the best to ever do it: Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. Lil Yachty doesn’t see his lack of knowledge about the two late greats as an issue....
In any discussion of injustice or oppression faced by black people in America, inevitably black on black crime is brought up. The question is, “what about it?” Constitutional Rights Due process means that laws must be applied fairly and equally to all people, especially to a citizen accused of a...
A few years back Killing The Breeze explained a simple bit of logic — if you’re against the labor union, you taking off for Labor Day makes about as much sense to me as Colin Kaepernick celebrating the 4th of July would for you. The holiday that ends summer, the...
Colin Kaepernick, a mixed race man adopted by white parents, is not standing for the national anthem because of the historical and ongoing treatment of people of color in the United States. As a black man, let me be the first (I’m sure I’m not) to stand up and give...
As the greatest smear-campaign in American history sneaks into its 4th year, you can’t help but be impressed at the scumsucker dream team assembled to see it through. Never before has a single person been the target of a 23+million dollar congressional witch hunt, a right-wing news (propaganda) website whose editor works for her political opponent, a...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) After JFK’S assassination, the nation was left in a state of shock and despair. LBJ was sworn into office...
(Continued from CONGRESSIONAL BATTLEGROUND SPOTLIGHT: BERN DOWN THE HOUSE, PEOPLE) I get it. It’s tough to get passionate about down-ticket items. But real change isn’t all piss and vinegar. The Berners scream up and down about Hillary but seemingly don’t want to transfer that energy into the more difficult and...