(Delaware Online) — Jon Conner and Blu Chip are household names to the hip-hop community of Delaware, but their 25 collective years of experience reach far beyond the first state.  Blu Chip had a successful record in California, and Jon Conner, who is also a writer and producer, has worked with record and production companies [...]

(New York Times) — Dan Tolleson, a researcher and writer with a Ph.D. in politics, has been out of work since 2009, except for brief stints as a driver. Still, he opposes President Obama’s call for Congress to renew extensions on unemployment benefits.  “They’re going to end up spending more money on unemployment benefits, while less [...]

(Smart Money) — In a 2011 decision, the U.S. Tax Court ruled that an unmarried taxpayer could not deduct home mortgage interest that she paid until she became an equitable co-owner of the property with her boyfriend and was legally obligated to make the mortgage payments. On her 2007 Form 1040, the taxpayer had attempted [...]

(New York Times) — Here’s a way to save money: Move in with relatives.Lots of Americans have done just that during the economic downturn, an analysis of census data from the Pew Research Center finds.  In fact, the trend helped touch off the largest increase in the number of Americans living in multigenerational households in modern history, [...]

(New York Times) — Anti-Wall Street protesters marched past the gates of the White House on Thursday, bringing their message of economic injustice to the capital and posing an opportunity, but also a threat, to President Obama, who presents himself as a fervent defender of the middle class.  Brandishing placards that said “No More Wall Street [...]

(Black Enterprise) — Anyone who reads this blog with any frequency knows that I am no tech-geek. To the contrary, I have dragged myself, with great reluctance and way too much whining, into the digital age. It took me months to actually use the cell phone I was given as a gift, to adopt email [...]

(The Grio) — Today Oprah Winfrey sits comfortably at the top of Forbes list as the highest earning women in entertainment, bringing in an estimated $290 million between May 2010 and May 2011.  Although she is raking in the cash, her endeavor to launch a cable network has been an uphill battle. But this season, she is proving [...]

(Reuters) – Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said on Friday the award was recognition of the West African state’s “many years of struggle for justice, peace, and promotion of development” since a brutal civil war.  Johnson-Sirleaf shares the award with fellow Liberian Leymah Gbowee, a peace activist, and Yemeni activist [...]

You know the drill — white is right.

(Washington Times) — Why the media insists on referring to Herman Cain as the chief executive officer of a pizza company, as if that were all that were on Mr. Cain’s resume, is highly questionable to me. Mr. Cain’s resume contains many more accomplishments. For example, he is a past chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and the [...]