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Want some old fashioned black helicopter, conspiracy goofiness? Check out the frenzied work of HufPoster Joseph Palmero who imagines that if Obama becomes president members of Blackwater security services or Haliburton would somehow decide to assassinate him.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—With a new home and an acting director, and groundwork laid by some of the nation’s leading experts, The University of Michigan National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) is poised and ready to launch a number of initiatives to move the discussion of diversity beyond the issue of representation, University leaders say. From the Center's mission statement "Following the successful planning conference in May, the University of Michigan is proud to launch the National Center for Institutional Diversity, which will bring together the most astute minds and accomplished practitioners to examine diversity in all its complexity," President Mary...

It is such a relief to hear the music swell up at the end of a Roland Emmerich movie, its restorative power giving us new hope. Billions of people may have died, but at least the major characters have survived. Los Angeles was wiped out by flying saucers in Emmerich's "Independence Day," New York was assaulted in his "Godzilla," and now, in "The Day After Tomorrow," Emmerich outdoes himself: Los Angeles is leveled by multiple tornados, New York is buried under ice and snow, the United Kingdom is flash-frozen, and lots of the Northern Hemisphere is wiped out for good...