Tami Roman stopped by the Wendy Williams show to address the controversy surrounding her reality show, “Basketball Wives.”

First Lady Michelle Obama weighed in on recent revelations about her husband’s past drug use on Tuesday, acknowledging that President Obama realized at a young age that he “could do more with his life.”

During an appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” to promote her new cookbook, the First Lady was asked by host Jon Stewart about the president’s high school and college years. An excerpt released last week from David Maraniss’s forthcoming biography of the president contained details about Obama’s marijuana use as a teenager. Stewart joked that the stories about the president as a young man resembled the “script of a Cheech and Chong movie.”

While the First Lady didn’t directly address the claims in Maraniss’ book, she did say that her husband underwent a change during his college years.

“By the time he was in college, like so many young people, he realized that he could do more with his life,” Obama told Stewart. “He had a mother that was always saying you’re so gifted, you’re so talented, slap him on the head, ‘get yourself together.’”

She continued: “When he lost his father, that was one of those click-in moments. And he really buckled down, he transferred schools, went to Columbia, and thought about how to use his life to the fullest.”

Obama also commented on her relationship with Vice President Joe Biden, who Stewart joked was like an uncle who brings guns to family events.

“I love Joe,” Obama said. “He’s a great vice president and he’s a great friend. My kids hang around him and I’m good with it.”

Tuesday marked Obama’s first appearance on “The Daily Show” since becoming First Lady. Her last stop was in 2008, when she spoke with Stewart in the final month of her husband’s presidential campaign.

Minister Louis Farrakhan recently responded to President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage calling him “the first president that sanctioned what the scriptures forbid,” according to a video posted by the Nation of Islam’s, Finalcall.com

During an address at the California Convention Center on Sunday, the Nation of Islam leader also ridiculed the media for its portrayal of Obama after the announcement, and chastised politicians and clergy for hypocritically supporting gay marriage despite the fact that the Bible forbids it, reports the Huffington Post.

This is the face of the naked homeless man who was gunned down by a Miami cop while eating the face of another nude man.

Rudy Eugene, 31, appears smug and defiant in an old police mug shot shown on a TV news station Monday night.

The real-life Hannibal Lecter was shot to death Saturday in one of Florida’s most bizarre crimes.

His victim, an unidentified homeless man, was clinging to life at a Miami hospital Monday.

His face was reported to be barely identifiable as that of a human.

Eugene’s criminal record showed he was arrested several times in the last few years, but none involved a violent crime. The only exception was when he was 16, when he was slapped with a battery charge.

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Despite the undisputed idiocy of the move, which was captured on a video gone viral, there are no plans to arrest the parents. “Right now we just want to make sure the child is OK,” Jason Laughlin, a spokesman for the Camden County prosecutor’s office, told the Associated Press. “We don’t believe there was any criminal intent. It was more of an accident.”

“From speaking with the owners of the Laundromat, they said the child’s father came back and told them the child was fine and they took him to the hospital,” said Laughlin. “We just want to confirm that.”

The incident occurred May 11 at the Federal Laundromat and was captured by a surveillance camera, which shows the drama erupting in the midst of the mundane chore of doing the family laundry. After a curious toddler peers curiously through the glass door of one spinning washing machine, his father playfully picks him up and places him into the empty machine next to it, then closes the door. The mother, standing nearby, does not appear concerned.

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Rock was reportedly straightening her hair when she then decided to clamp her child’s testicles with the straightening iron she was using. The infant had three burn marks which started on the inside of his right thigh and reach his testicles. But this incident was not the first instance in which the child was abused.

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Airlines are reserving a growing number of window and aisle seats for passengers willing to pay extra. That’s helping to boost revenue but also making it harder for friends and family members who don’t pay this fee to sit next to each other. At the peak of the summer travel season, it might be nearly impossible.

Buying tickets two or more months in advance makes things a little easier. But passengers are increasingly finding that the only way to sit next to a spouse, child or friend is to shell out $25 or more, each way.

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While the mainstream media made sure to report with exclamations and gasps that marijuana was found in Trayvon Martin‘s system on the night that he was killed, many outlets failed to also report that the level was well below what medical studies show cause “performance impairment.” The same can not be said for George Zimmerman. According to the paramedic report, the vigilante neighborhood watch captain was on the prescription drug Temazepam, reports MSNBC.com.

The United States of America is a much more diverse nation than it was a century ago. It is much more diverse than it was 50 years ago. And now it just may be the most diverse nation on the planet with the release of the latest U.S. population statistics.

The U.S. Census Bureau has made it official, whites for the first time ever, make up less than half of newborns in the U.S. Minority newborns have for the first time weighed in at just over half of the population.
The milestone was announced this morning and the Wall Street Journal reported:

Among the roughly four million children born in the U.S. between July 2010 and July 2011, 50.4% belonged to a racial or ethnic group that in previous generations would have classified them as minorities, up from 48.6% in the same period two years earlier, the Census Bureau said Thursday.

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Donnell Battie says Wal-Mart was negligent, careless and reckless and showed deliberate indifference by failing to properly control access to the P.A. system, reports MSNBC.

Battie’s lawsuit was first filed in Camden County Superior Court in March. It was moved this week to U.S. District Court in Camden, the New Jersey Law Journal reported Tuesday. The lawsuit stems from a March 14, 2010, incident at a Wal-Mart in the community of Turnersville in Washington Township, N.J. Shortly before 5 p.m., someone commandeered the store’s public address system and announced: “Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now.”

A store manager quickly went on the intercom system and apologized for the remark, and police were summoned, according to media reports at the time. A 16-year-old was later arrested on harassment and bias intimidation charges.
Battie says he was in the store and contends the announcement led to depression, anxiety, anger, loss of sleep and appetite, paranoia, anti-social tendencies and loss of enjoyment in activities. Battie’s attorney, John Klamo, says Battie had already been getting professional help for previous traumatic incidents.

“Mr. Battie is an individual who has been under care of a doctor for various disabilities dealing with his psychological makeup,” Klamo told the Law Journal. He’s in Wal-Mart and something of this nature presents its ugly head and it brings up past situations in his life that affected him.”

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