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Henry Louis Gates Jr., previously believed to be an acclaimed white intellectual and professor of literature, was arrested at his home last week on suspicion of racial identity theft.

Stephen Colbert ripped into Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, and Tom Tancredo for claiming that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a racist who has dedicated her life to discriminating against white men. 'As a white male I am being reverse discriminated against,' Colbert said. 'Thank you reverse civil rights leader Pat Buchanan.' Colbert also noted, 'Now that white people are disadvantaged, that makes us the new black people.' Watch the video. This Just In: ? Jon Stewart does a dramatic reading of journalists' love letters to Mark Sanford ? Bill Maher compares Mark Sanford's emails to Mark Foley's IM's ? Watch the best moments of the Sotomayor hearings, including wise Latina lines, banal baseball metaphors, and crack! ? A new book claims that Jenna and Barbara Bush were a nightmare for the Secret Service, with Jenna purposely trying to lose her protection by running red lights and going on bar-hopping trips south of the border ? The Onion announced that it has been sold to

The body of a shark was left lying in the middle of a Miami street after two men apparently tried to sell it to several fish markets.

One southern Wisconsin homeowner is probably not in love with the Oscar Mayer wiener. The famed hot dog's Wienermobile crashed Friday into the deck and garage of a home in Mount Pleasant, about 35 miles south of Milwaukee. Police said the driver was trying to...

Following approved article contains: Detailed account of American selfishness in matters concerning the state; The multiple failures of Illinois resident Geoff Ross and how he has become a shameful hindrance to his community at large; Unwavering egoism.

A young woman who was several months pregnant boarded a bus. When she noticed a young man smiling at her she began feeling humiliated on account of her condition. She changed her seat and he seemed more amused.She moved again and then on her fourth move he burst out laughing. She had him arrested.When the case came before the court, the young man was as asked why he acted in such a manner.His reply was: When the lady boarded the bus I couldn't help noticing she was pregnant. She sat under an advertisement which read 'Coming Soon The Gold Dust Twins', then she moved under one that read 'Sloans Liniments remove Swelling'. I was even more amused when she sat under a shaving advertisement which read 'William Stick Did The Trick'. Then I could not control myself any longer when on the fourth move she sat under an advertisement which read 'Dunlop Rubber would have prevented this accident.'He won the case.

An Islamic court in Malaysia has sentenced a Muslim woman to be flogged with a rattan cane for having a beer in a nightclub, a court official said Tuesday. It is rare for a woman in Malaysia to be sentenced to caning _ a punishment usually reserved for men in...

In the first major land battle of the Civil War, a large Union force under General Irvin McDowell is routed by a Confederate army under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard.Three months after the Civil War erupted at Fort Sumter, Union military command still believed that the Confederacy could be crushed quickly and with little loss of life. In July, this overconfidence led to a premature offensive into northern Virginia by General McDowell. Searching out the Confederate forces, McDowell led 34,000 troops--mostly inexperienced and poorly trained militiamen--toward the railroad junction of Manassas, located just 30 miles from Washington, D.C. Alerted to the Union advance, General Beauregard massed some 20,000 troops there and was soon joined by General Joseph Johnston, who brought some 9,000 more troops by railroad.On the morning of July 21, hearing of the proximity of the two opposing forces, hundreds of civilians--men, women, and children--turned out to watch the first major battle of the C

Police have detained a Malaysian woman who allegedly stabbed her husband in the chest for coming home late after watching a soccer match between Manchester United and Malaysia. The man had promised to come back immediately after the match in Kuala Lumpur on...