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Coolio has died at age 59 The rapper who achieved enormous success in the 90s was visiting a friend late Wednesday afternoon when he passed away. Coolio’s longtime manager, Jarez, says Coolio went to the bathroom at his friend’s house, but when he didn’t come after a while … the friend kept calling for him, and eventually went in and found him laying on the floor. We’re told the friend called EMTs, who arrived and pronounced him dead on the scene — and Jarez tells us the paramedics suspect he suffered cardiac arrest.

Clearly, we the people are not in charge. Liars and deceivers are in charge. A tiny minority believe every lie. They are the true believers who have no sense of self worth beyond the blandishments of their seducers. This makes them irrational fanatics, unphased by reason, reality, or truth. They cling to lies as their only hope. They believe lies knowing they are lies but believing that only in lies can they find any truth. They are madly, wildly insane and will not tolerate any challenge to their convictions. I know women like this who will only believe the fraud...

Between the red-cloaked handmaids, topless women in nuns' habits, dead baby dolls, bloody pants, and half-naked green-breasted obese women, the protests are more like a nightmare of apocalyptic, zombie, nuns-ploitation films with scenes from Carrie, It's Alive, and The Walking Dead. Most of the privileged, bored women go home and share photos of their day dabbling in politics on social media. However, for some of the younger women, the protests are a type of gateway drug to the next level of activism. They join more militant feminist groups in which protest involves vandalism, arson and more. Jane’s Revenge is an...

Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, there has been an increased number of men seeking 'temporary' vasectomies — but this South Florida doctor offers an opposing viewFollowing the overturning of Roe v. Wade, there has been an increased number of men seeking ‘temporary’ vasectomies — but this South Florida doctor offers an opposing view After the overturning of Roe v. Wade ended the constitutional right to an abortion, many have offered an unconventional solution to temporarily preventing pregnancy: vasectomies. While the idea has jumped off of the web and into urologists' offices across the nation, one South Florida doctor...

There was less of a baby bust than expected because of COVID-19 — but that doesn't reflect changing family planning dynamics in the United States. Instead, it's indicative of shrinking access to abortions and birth control across the country, especially for low-income women. That's according to a recent paper published by the National Bureau for Economic Research, which found that the 2020 COVID-19 recession was much different than earlier recessions, in that the number of babies born barely changed. The Brookings Institute predicted in 2020 that the pandemic would likely lead to a large, lasting baby bust, projecting 300,000 to...

In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because her name was redacted from the records, we call her Bertha. She was a single mother with one child who lived at the segregated O'Berry Center for African American adults with intellectual disabilities in Goldsboro. According to the North Carolina Eugenics Board, Bertha had an IQ of 62 and exhibited “aggressive behavior and sexual promiscuity.” She had been orphaned as a child and had a limited education. Likely because of her “low IQ score,” the board determined she was not...