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June 5, 2007 ATLANTA (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday that there is a "quiet riot" happening every day across America which could erupt like the riots in Los Angeles 15 years ago. Speaking to several thousand people at Hampton University in Virginia, Obama said: "Those 'quiet riots' are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths. They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. "Despair takes hold and young people all across the country look at the way the world...

Quiet Riot Singer Died of Overdose 1 day ago LAS VEGAS (AP) — The death last month of Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has been ruled an accidental cocaine overdose. Clark County coroner spokeswoman Samantha Charles confirmed the cause Monday after toxicology results were received Monday. Dubrow was found dead Nov. 25 at his Las Vegas home. He was 52. Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of "Cum on Feel the Noize." The song, featuring Dubrow's powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band's album "Metal Health" — which was...

Quiet Riot vocalist Kevin DuBrow was found dead at his home in Las Vegas on Sunday. Friends reportedly went to his home and found the singer. The musician was 52. DuBrow started the heavy metal band Dubrow in 1980 and later changed the name to Quiet Riot. The group released an album “Mental Health” that took them to the top of the charts. They were the first metal band to receive number one status on their debut album. Their latest album “Rehab” was released in 2006. Most recently, the group performed in July at glam metal festival “Rocklahoma” and at...

View larger image HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a "quiet riot" among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago. The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots. "This administration was colorblind in its incompetence," Obama said at a conference of black clergy, "but the poverty and the hopelessness was...

I’ve received several emails from readers about a near-riot by leftists and Islamists last night at George Mason University, where John Lewis was giving a speech on state-sponsored Islamic totalitarianism. Of course, there’s nothing in the media about it. If anyone has more detailed information, photos, or video, please contact me or leave a comment in this topic...

The chief suspect of the terrorist attack killing Western tourists in Egypt has died after suffering from self-inflicted injuries while in police custody. Egyptian Prosecutor General Maher Abdul Wahid reported Saturday that Ashraf Said Yusef hit his head on the wall several times, and was admitted to the hospital on May 11th dying May 19th. The first report by the government-financed Supreme Council for Human Rights reported that at least nine Egyptians died in detention during 2004. Police arrested Yusef late last month suspecting him of masterminding three attacks against Western tourists April in Cairo, in which three tourists were...