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One of McDonald’s executive chefs has released the recipe for the burger chain’s Big Mac sauce. The secret recipe was revealed in the restaurant’s Canada campaign on YouTube. The campaign featured questions and answers given by the public including “What is in the sauce that is in the Big Mac?” Executive chef Dan Coudreaut provided […]
A new study measured the accuracy of using ‘Gaydar’ to determine if someone is straight or gay. Researchers at the University of Washington surveyed 129 students who reviewed pictures of men and women of both sexual orientations. Each picture was shown for 50 milliseconds. Students were asked to use a person’s facial features such as […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats blocked a Senate vote Wednesday on President Barack Obama's plan to extend expiring tax cuts for a year for everyone but the highest-earning Americans as the two parties maneuvered to try embarrassing each other on one of the election year's foremost issues. The move came just two days after Obama urged […]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Joe Paterno, in a letter written nearly a month before his January death, defends the integrity of the Penn State football program he guided for decades. In the newly public letter, the Hall of Fame coach also admonishes critics who equated the child sex abuse charges against ex-assistant Jerry Sandusky […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge is continuing to block a new anti-abortion law in Mississippi. If the law were allowed to take effect, it could shut down the state's only abortion clinic and make it nearly impossible for a woman to get an abortion in Mississippi. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House has voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. But the election-year move stands no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate. The vote Wednesday was 244-185. By the Republican count, it was the 33rd time in 18 months that the tea party-infused GOP majority has tried to scrap, defund […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The State Department should add housekeepers to a list of prohibited jobs for foreign college students who spend their summers in the United States as part of cultural exchange program that has left participants vulnerable to exploitation, an advocacy group said Tuesday. The State Department announced major changes to the J-1 […]
CLICK HERE to listen to Roland Martin talk with Tara Wall, Senior Communications Adviser to Mitt Romney about his speech at the NAACP Convention It’s an awkward time for former Gov. Mitt Romney to address the NAACP — whether it’s because of the “complicated” relationship between the African-American community and the Republican Party, or […]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A potentially explosive report into whether football coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials took steps to conceal that former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was a child molester will be released Thursday — online for all to see, officials said Tuesday. Attorneys for the university's deposed president, meanwhile, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans generally avoided talk of replacement measures on Tuesday as they mobilized for an election-season vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment. Instead, they lambasted the 2-year-old law as a threat to the nation's economic recovery and predicted some Democrats would join […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he opposes a new photo ID requirement in Texas elections because it would be harmful to minority voters. In remarks to the NAACP in Houston, the attorney general said the Justice Department "will not allow political pretexts to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious right." […]
So now, I’m seeing the Mitt Romney signs go up –and one that especially sticks with me is the one that says “Believe in America.” Wow. If ever there was a sign with racist code and rank hypocrisy rolled into one phrase, that one is it. That slogan resonates with people who believe that to […]
