PRESIDENT OBAMA VS. HEALTH CARE
With his overall approval rating down to 48%, President Barack Obama didn’t exactly kick up his heels last week as the nation marked the one year anniversary of his historic election. Mr. Obama won 53% of the vote on November 4, 2008 and his approval rating rocketed up to 65% by Inauguration Day. Nobody expected the President’s numbers to remain in the statistical stratosphere, but how in the world did they nosedive to 48%? How in the world did that happen? Most of the blame lies with the stubbornly sluggish economy, but another cause is Mr. Obama’s inability to define himself as a strong, effective leader in the face of unyielding Republican opposition and relentless (often f

BEYONCE, YUNG JOC, BEANIE SIGEL, 50 CENT AND MORE…
STOP BY & CHECK OUT YOUR GHURL AT…….. WWW.LESLIESEGAR.COM $100 MILLION A YEAR DEAL FOR BEYONCE!!! Not that any of us will be surprised, but Ms. Beyonce is about to become the wealthiest woman in all of entertainment. B’s Pops, Mathew Knowles, ain’t playing & is close to finalizing a ginormous deal that would have Beyonce become the mainstay at the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Yes, Sasha Fierce would be the Wynn’s resident performer! And I hope you’re sitting down cause this deal is reportedly worth $500,000,000.00. Or $100 million a year for up to 5 yea

THAT’S WHY WE’RE HERE
A few years ago, as I grappled with daunting personal and spiritual challenges, I phoned my church and asked for an appointment with our pastor. The office manager explained that the pastor’s schedule was already loaded and that she didn’t know when he’d be able to see me. I asked her not to make a big thing out of it and said I’d be grateful if she could work me into calendar whenever it was convenient – next week, the week after that… Within half an hour my phone rang. The office manager told me that she had spoken to the pastor and that he would be happy to see me tomorrow. When I arrived at the church office the next day, I thanked the pastor for taking time to

A REVIEW OF… “THINGS FALL APART”
UTC Family, From summer to fall, and having moved from the Midwest to the South and back, I’m here with you again. And reading. I hope you have been, too. I was engrossed in “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill for a few months (which, by the way, is a POWERFUL book), but now I’ve gotten back to my love of African-authored novels. I’ve read a couple in a two-week time period, and ordered about 20 new ones that I can’t wait to share with you guys. But first, I wanted to get us talking about an old classic which I’ve mentioned before, and never expounded upon – “Things Fall Apart” by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. There have been a TON of critiques on th

PRAYING FOR RIHANNA
After getting beaten bloody by her ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown, I had hoped that Rihanna would return to the music scene with a message of courage and hope that would help strengthen the young women who admire her. Instead, Rihanna has come back with the most disgusting, demoralizing and potentially dangerous song about female victimization that I have ever heard. “Russian Roulette” is not a metaphorical song. It is literally about a woman pointing a gun at herself – and, judging by the gunshot sound at the end, shooting herself — in order to please her man. Rihanna sings about being afraid but still going through with this deadly act of self-violence… You