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TJMS: Steve Stoute On Hip Hop, The Tanning Of America And The New Economy

Roland Martin talks with Steve Stoute about his new book, The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy. Stoute explains how the Hip-Hop culture has played a major role in developing a new economy, driving sales for various products and how Hip-Hop artists have become some of the leading marketers in the country. For more information about The Tanning Of America visit The Tanning of America.

FBI Searches Bankrupt Solar Energy Company Touted By President Obama

Source: CNN FBI agents on Thursday were searching the offices of a California solar energy company touted by President Barack Obama that recently halted operations, FBI spokesman Peter Lee confirmed to CNN. Search warrants were executed at the Fremont, California, offices of Solyndra, which recently filed for bankruptcy, in a joint operation involving the FBI and the Department of Energy, Lee said. Solyndra received a $535 million government loan guarantee from the Obama administration under the stimulus bill of 2009, [...]

President Barack Obama Is Being Lobbied To Include Gulf Of Mexico Drilling As A Jobs Creator

Source: Dave Levinthal and Anna Palmer / Politico Nearly 20 groups wrote to President Barack Obama asking him to include Gulf of Mexico drilling as a jobs creator in his speech before Congress tonight. CEO signatories include: Jim Adams of Offshore Marine Service Association, Luke Bellsnyder of Texas Association of Manufacturers, Barny Bishop of the Associated Industries of Florida and Don Briggs of the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association. Paul Cicio of the Industrial Energy Consumers of America, David Curtiss [...]

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Attorney General Eric Holder Announces 91 Arrests In $300 Million Medicare Fraud Sting

Souce: CBS News Federal authorities announced Wednesday what they described as the largest bust for Medicare fraud in U.S. history after conducting sweeps in eight cities for offenses totaling $300 million. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the arrests at an afternoon press conference. The arrests were carried out by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force under the Department of Health and Human Services. "At various positions, nurses and physicians violated their professions as well as the public trust," Holder told reporters, [...]

Allen West Shows Anti-Mosque Film To 9/11 Families

Source: Marin Cogan / Politico Politicians across the country are finding all sorts of ways to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but Rep. Allen West's event stands out for its unique twist: He invited family members of 9/11 victims to the Capitol to view a controversial film about construction of the Ground Zero mosque. West, a tea party favorite who has sparred with Muslim and other religious groups for his controversial statements on Islam, told the friendly crowd Wednesday that [...]

Andrea Mitchell Announces Breast Cancer On Air

Source: Melissa Bell/ The Washington Post Andrea Mitchell with husband Alan Greenspan, a former Federal Reserve chairman. Andrea Mitchell, NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent, announced on air Wednesday that she has breast cancer. The host of "Andrea Mitchell Reports" said that during her annual exam, she had been diagnosed as "one of the one in eight women in this country with breast cancer." She quickly went on to say that her outlook was very good and that the disease can [...]

CBS News: Online Video Game Turns Tea Partiers Into "Zombie" Targets

Source: Lucy Madison / CBS News A new online video game company has come up with a controversial new twist on the traditional zombie-killing gaming concept: The zombies targeted for kill are prominent figures in the Tea Party movement. The game, "Tea Party Zombies Must Die," features a handful of Tea Party members – including Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, and a blood-spattered, bra-clad Michele Bachmann – who the gamer is instructed to kill with either a "melee weapon" (in [...]

Rumsfeld: President Obama Has Embraced Bush's Post Sept. 11 Policies

Source: Eyder Peralta / NPR In a long interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, yesterday, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld looks back at Sept. 11. Rumsfeld recounts that day at the Pentagon; he rememebers feeling the building shake and watching the thickening smoke and leaving the building to find the lawn covered in pieces of metal from the airplane. One of the highlights of the interview is what he says about the Bush Doctrine, the set of policies enacted by [...]

Soulja Boy Apologizes To Armed Forces For Anti-Military Rap

Source: Jenée Desmond-Harris /The Root Twenty-one-year-old rapper Soulja Boy recently released a video of a song with lyrics about the military so offensive that they've inspired Army personnel and veterans to petition to have his music banned from bases around the country: "F–k the FBI/And f–k all the Army troops/Bitch, be your own man/I'll be flying through the clouds/With green like I'm Peter Pan," he raps on a new track titled, "Let's Be Real," which went viral on Labor Day. This morning, [...]