Fresh from our “Hypocrite” file, anti-violence advocate and motivational speaker Warren Jackson was charged with domestic battery for punching a woman in the face inside a parked car. Jackson, who lectures about inner-city violence, works for the charitable organization We Stop the Violence, which has recently come under fire for fraudulent activity. The Huffington Post…

AOL News is reporting that former American Gladiator star Debbie “Storm” Clark has been homeless for almost three years. Clark was one of the stars of the hit syndicated television series that matched amateur athletes against the show’s own elite team of “gladiators” with names like “Zap,” “Tower,” “Laser” and “Storm.” Clark was on the…

MSNBC is reporting that the Congressional Budget Office is estimating that the U.S. budget deficit will be $1.5 trillion thanks to the weak economy and bipartisan tax-cut legislation passed last month. The CBO analysis predicts that the economy will grow by 3.1 percent this year, but joblessness will remain above 9 percent this year. The…

Fresh from our “We’re not making this up” file, ColorLines is reporting that fledgling independent game developer Owlchemy Labs is releasing the game Smuggle Truck in March. Channing Kennedy believes that the game trivializes our current immigration policy. Kennedy says, “The player controls an old pickup truck crammed full of Latino caricatures, and attempts to…

While others have dismissed Tea Party darling Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capeheart is paying close attention to Bachmann, who gave the Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Bachmann, who has presidential aspirations and wants to cut NASA, public school funding and a host of other things,…

Can you say angry? If not, read Alveda King’s press release entitled, “Different Year, Same Lies from Planned Parenthood about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” In the press release, Dr. Alveda King, full-time director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life, objects to Planned Parenthood’s latest statements that imply that Dr. Martin Luther King…

Fresh from our “The pot calling the kettle black” file, The Wire creator David Simon takes Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III to task for singling out HBO’s The Wire for creating a “smear that will take decades to overcome.” In an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, Simon highlighted the disconnect between the Baltimore…

Convicted felon Kelley Williams-Bolar is sitting in an Akron, Ohio, jail right now for trying to provide a better education and safer environment for her children. Years ago, Williams-Bolar took her daughters from Akron’s public housing after their home was burglarized and placed them with their grandfather in Copley Township. Summit County prosecutors contend the…