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ZIMBABWE - A woman andher son have done the unthink-able – they have fallen in lovewith one another. And nowthey want to marry since themom, Betty Maybrook fromMorenci in Mandingo, is sixmonths pregnant and expect-ing her son’s child.

Maybrook (40), who waswidowed 12 years ago, hasbeen cohabiting with her firstchild, Faria Maybrook (23).She confirms that she is sixmonths pregnant and that shehas decided it is better to“marry” her son because shedoes not want to marry her late husband’s young brothers.

Betty stunned a village court lastweek when she said the affair with herson had begun three years earlier. Shesaid after spending a lot of money send-ing Faria to school following the death ofher husband, she felt she had a right to

his money and no other woman was enti-tled to it.

“Look, I strove alone to send my sonto school and no one helped me. Nowyou see that my son is working and youaccuse me of doing something wrong. Let me enjoy the products of my sweat,”

she told the village court. Faria said he was more than pre-

pared to marry his mother and wouldpay off the iloilos balance his fatherhad left unpaid to his grandparents. “Iknow my father died before he fin-ished paying the bride price and I amprepared to pay it off,” he said.“It is better to publicize what is hap-

pening because people should know thatI am the one who made my mother preg-nant. Otherwise they will accuse her ofpromiscuity.”

But local headman Nathan Mufulirasays: “We cannot allow this to happen in

see MOTHER page 6

TinaTurnerlands

cover ofVogue

Magazine at 73

SWEDEN - Tina Turner can stillbe dubbed the sexiest womanalive, at the age of 73. With legsof steel the legend has managed tooutdo her predecessors. Manywomen in the industry look up toher and Beyoncé is no exception.Beyoncé is the biggest emulaterof Tina Turner, as is evident at herSuperbowl performance.

Now this 60s hit maker andteacher of all things diva has land-ed the cover of Vogue Magazinefor the first time. She looked fan-tastic and flawless on the cover ofthe German edition of Vogue.Unfortunately the singer’s famouslegs won’t be making an appear-ance in the magazine.

Turner is the oldest star tograce the cover of VogueMagazine. Meryl Streep formerly had the honor when sheposed for the American edition, at 62. Turner who retired frompublic view in 2009 just recently finalized her citizenship inSweden and lives there now full time with her beau, ErwinBach. She has been living in Zurich since the mid-1990s. Ofher denouncement of US citizenship, she told a German news-paper, “I’m very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here.I cannot imagine a better place to live.”

For her many chart topping hits, which include, What’s

Love Got To Do With It; Private Dancer; Simply The Best;River Deep- Mountain High; Proud Mary and others, thesinger has won eight Grammys and has released a total of 10studio albums.

She is noted as selling more concert tickets than any othersolo performer in history. Rolling Stone ranked her at 63 ontheir 100 greatest artists of all time and considers her the“Queen of Rock and Roll”.

WASHINGTON - Medicaredoctors will be experiencing apay cut very soon. The news isdisheartening for manypeople, as the federal serv-ice helps a lot of peopleattain proper medical carewho would otherwise notbe able to afford it. Underthe so-called sequester,Medicare payments tohealth care providers,health care plans and drugplans will be reduced by2% starting April 1,according to the Centers forMedicare & Medicaid Service.

The bottom line is thatdoctors who treat Medicarebeneficiaries will only be reim-bursed 98 cents on every dollarfor a vast array of services.Reimbursement for low-

income beneficiaries is exempt. Overall, the cut will mean

$11 billion less for doctors,hospitals and other providers in2013. Last year, the agencydoled out more than $500 bil-

lion in such payments. While itmay not seem like much of aloss to doctors, the cut alsoaffects the level of treatmentand care that patients receivefrom doctors in clinics andother privately owned medicalfacilities.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The S.C.Department of Health andEnvironmental Control willconduct a series of forums tolet the publicrecommend which foodsthey thinkshould beremovedfrom orshouldremain on thestate’sSupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram (SNAP) list of eligible foods,the agency announced.

Today, two out of threeSouth Carolinians are over-weight or obese. Obesity is amajor contributor to the dis-eases that kill the most peoplein our state, make the mostpeople sick, and cost our statethe most money to treat.Research shows that by makingbetter food choices, SouthCarolinians can prevent obesityand the deadly health problemsthat come with it.

At DHEC’s last obesitystakeholder meeting, Gov.Nikki Haley and S.C.Department of Social ServicesDirector Lillian Koller recentlyannounced a plan to request awaiver from the U.S.

Department of Agriculture tohelp South Carolinians whoparticipate in SNAP eat healthyand avoid obesity.

Currently, more than878,000 South Carolinians par-ticipate in SNAP, commonly

known as “food stamps,”receiving cash

benefits of$1.4 billion peryear. The list

of eligible fooditems that canbe purchasedunder SNAP

includesalmost all

consumableproducts,

regardless of an item’s nutri-tional value. South Carolinanow seeks to update its SNAPeligible foods list to betterreflect the health needs of ourstate, the Governors office said

Meetings will be heldacross the state beginning onMarch 21.

Persons wishing to pub-licly comment during any ofthese meetings will be asked toregister to speak at the door.For those unable to attend themeetings, comments can besubmitted through DHEC’s

online form atwww.scdhec.gov/snap

or via email at snapcomments@dhec.sc.gov

or call toll-free 1-866-664-0483.

DHEC seeks public’s input onproposed SNAP‘Food Stamps’

eligible food list

Medicare paymentswill be reduced by 2% starting

April 1

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Mother who marries her son, she isnow 6 months pregnant

This story is not placed here to be comical nor forany kind of shock value. It is news, but most of all

its placement can be used to point out how, inwhat is rapidly becoming a very twisted humansociety that we live in, a society where we so

easily approve, without debate, so many immoralthings simply by assigning them to cultural

differences or to “do your own thing.” These degenerate things at one time, not so

long ago, were considered unthinkable, but havenow become the norm in many societies. In my

opinion, there needs to be some serious re-evaluations and reversals in communitiesacross the board and across the globe about

where we are apparently headed in our thoughtprocesses, lest we wake up one morning and findourselves citizens living in an environment that isovertaken byirreversible debauchery just like that

of the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah - And you know how that story ends -

Editor

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MONTGOMERY, AL - Montgomery,Alabama police chief Kevin Murphy’s recentapology was made at the historic First BaptistChurch, not only to the famed Freedom Ridersbut also, personally, to U.S. Representative ofGeorgia, John Lewis, a historical civil rightscrusader. Lewis was in town as part of the 13thCongressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage toAlabama.

While traveling through the South towardMontgomery, Alabama on what was called theFreedom Rides, Lewis was struck on the headwith a wooden crate, which resulted in a frac-tured skull. He was severely beaten by anangered, racist, white mob along with 12 otherFreedom Riders, and then, they were arrestedon trumped up charges.

Now, some 50 years after the horrificevents that the Riders were made to endure bya nation indifferent to justice, Murphy apolo-gized to the civil rights legend.

The Police Chief said, “For me, freedomand the right to live in peace is a cornerstoneof our society and that was something thatMartin Luther King, Rosa Parks, andCongressman Lewis were trying to achieve.”The Congressmen became visibly emotionalduring Murphy’s apology, which was the firstone he had ever received by someone whoupheld Southern law.

BRUNSWICK, NJ - According to researchconducted by Dr. Jeounghee Kim, assistant pro-fessor at Rutgers School of Social Work, educat-ed African-American women have moredivorces than educated White women. Generally speaking, married couples who haveattained higher levels of education are less like-ly to divorce than less-educated couples.Unfortunately, in the Black community, educa-tion is not enough to sustain a marriage.

“African-American women don’t seem toenjoy the same degree of protection that educa-tion confers on marriage,” said Dr. Kim. “ForWhite Americans, higher education is related toa lower chance of divorce, and this protectiveeffect of education on marriage increased con-sistently among the recent generations. But forAfrican-American women, higher education is

not necessarily related to alower chance of divorce.”

During her researchDr. Kim’s analysisrevealed that the percent-age of White women withsome post-secondary edu-cation continuouslyincreased throughout thecohorts. This was not thecase with African-American women, whoseeducational attainmentpeaked in the 1985-1994cohorts before declining.

Dr. Kim also found the percentage of Whitewomen getting divorced declined throughout thestudy period, while African-American womenexperienced an increase in the 1980’s beforedeclining in the 1990 to 1994 cohort. Dr. Kim

said her findings were consistent withmuch existing literature that says thatwomen with higher levels of education —and greater earning potential — make moreattractive marriage partners.

There are three pos-sibilities Dr. Kimbelieves affects educat-ed African-Americanwomen’s ability to staymarried:

1.) Depreciatingvalue of college educa-tion. “One possibility isthat college educationdoes not translate into thehigher earnings that wouldhelp protect marriage forAfrican-Americans,” Dr.Kim said.

2.) Economic dispar-ity in the Black communi-ty. “Another could be thateducational attainmentmay be insufficient toaddress the high levels of

economic inequality that even well-educatedAfrican-Americans experience. Many are thefirst in their families to have attained a post-sec-ondary education and do not benefit from thecushion of intergenerational wealth possessedby some White families,” Dr. Kim believes.

3.) Gender gap in African-American’s edu-cational attainment, with nearly twice as manyAfrican-American women college graduates asmen.

Lowcountry Area Transportation Study(LATS), the new metropolitan transportation planning organization serving the municipalities of Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, Beaufort, PortRoyal and Hardeeville, and adjacent portions of unincorporated Beaufort and Jasper Counties,invites public comment on its Draft Bylaws.

A copy is available for review at the www.lowcountrycog.org website and at theLowcountry Council of Governments (LCOG)office 634 Campground Road at Point South.

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Comments must be received by March 22, 2013.Anyone needing assistance obtaining a copy or submitting a comment may contact

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Let's build on the Paul filibuster

Black political class could pickfight over Postal Service

privatization - but won't - Why?

Life in the Bubble

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David Limbaugh

The Republicans had better not squander the good willSen. Rand Paul purchased for them in his filibuster over theObama administration's potential use of armed drones to killnon-enemy combatants in America.

I am not simply referring to the constitutional issue ofwhether the president can engage in such acts, though that'svery important. I believe the significance of Paul's filibustertranscends the drone issue. It was about challenging theadministration's lawlessness and accountability across theboard and his runaway spend-ing and statism. It was aboutchampioning freedom, God-given rights and theConstitution.

Under questioning,Attorney General Eric Holderhas simply refused to give astraight answer about thesequestions and acts as thoughthe administration has a supe-rior right to hold such mattersclose to the vest and as thoughCongress, let alone theAmerican people, doesn't have a say in them or any righteven to be apprised.

Paul's filibuster sparked an excitement and enthusiasmwe haven't witnessed since the blue funk descended on con-servative America after Obama's re-election. Twitter was onfire, and conservatives were positively energized.

I have sensed a general despondency among conserva-tives, born of their incredulity that voters could elect some-one whose policies are so obviously damaging the countryand who seems to continue to escape accountability for hisactions. They have also been dispirited because they are skep-tical -- to put it charitably -- that Republican officeholders arefighting for them.

But the Republicans' refusal to back down in the seques-tration fight -- despite Obama's calculated, fraudulent predic-tions of apocalyptic consequences from sequester cuts -- hasgiven conservatives some renewed sense that we're still in thegame. Paul's 13-hour soliloquy has taken it, evenif only temporarily, to a new level. Conservatives can see westill have elected representatives who are in this fight and areunwilling to stand still as Obama continues his quest to fun-damentally change the nation into something the FoundingFathers wouldn't recognize.

No sooner had I decided on the lead paragraph of thiscolumn than I read that Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of a num-ber of Republicans dining with President Obama while Paulwas protesting his actions, had condemned Paul's filibuster.After having dinner with the entertainer in chief, Grahamsaid, "This idea that we're going to use a drone to attack a cit-izen in a cafe in America is ridiculous."

In the meantime, Republicans must be united in theirresolve to stand up to President Obama on the nations fiscaland solvency crisis. They need to build on, rather than under-mine, the groundwork they established in the sequestrationnegotiations and with Sen. Paul's filibuster.

Politico hints at what Obama has up his sleeve, andGraham and his cohorts seem to be playing right into hishands. It reports that Obama always knew Republicanswouldn't bend before the sequestration deadline but that he'sconfident they'll accede to more revenues in time -- in theirpattern of caving, provided he keeps the pressure on.

One former Democratic strategist said Obama hasalways miscalculated where the power among Republicanslies and has approached those who aren't as weak-kneed asothers.

No matter how many liberal commentators insist to BillO'Reilly that Obama really supports specific spending cuts,the fact is that he has had four-plus years to take the lead oreven follow the lead on this critical issue and he's refused.

Any Republicans gullible enough to believe Obama's talltale that he wants a "balanced approach" needs to wake upand join the reality community of those who are planting theirfeet in the ground to resist Obama's upcoming propagandablitz to make them cave. Do not even think about capitulat-ing. You will have enormous support if you fight -- and theresponse to Sen. Paul's filibuster is but a foreshadowing ofwhat is to come if you hold firm.

Bruce A. Dixon

Twenty, forty and sixty years ago, ajob at the Post Office was, for African-Americans, the ticket to something likemiddle class stability. Since people withsteady and well-paid work,who don't have long com-mutes were more able to par-ticipate in community-build-ing and sustaining activities.

Black postal workerswere well-represented in awide range of civic, volun-tary and political organiza-tions from the 1940s clear tothe end of the 20th century.

As an activist and organ-izer in Chicago of the 70s and80s, I learned countless les-sons from postal workerswho took the lead in struggles againstpolice brutality, for fair housing and oppo-sition to Chicago's long running municipaldictators, the Daley regime.

When I moved to Atlanta at the end of2000, I learned about another postal work-er, John Wesley Dobbs who used to becalled the Mayor of Auburn Avenue, andwas so well known that you could mail aletter from overseas addressed to “JohnWesley Dobbs, USA” and he wouldreceive it.

It was predictable that when, in the1980s, public policy took a turn against

steady jobs at good wages, to force moreand more Americans, particularly African-Americans into less and less secure jobs atlower and lower wages, at the same time itvastly expanded the prison state and madewelfare as scarce and punitive as possible,that the Postal Service, a monopoly

enshrined in the Constitutionitself, became a target for pri-vatizers.

In the eighties, ninetiesand the new century,Democrats and Republicansin Congress and successiveWhite Houses passed speciallegislation and rules thatrestricted the postal servicewhile enabling UPS andFederal Express to take someof its most lucrative traffic.

Massachusetts liberalDemocrat Ted Kennedy took

the lead in passing regulation specificallycrafted to make unionization impossible atFedEx. The death blow to the postal serv-ice may have been struck during the Bushadministration, when Congress saddled thepostal service with the absurd requirementto fully fund all pensions seventy years inadvance, for workers yet unborn.

It's the end game now, with greedy pri-vatizers like the husband of Senator DianeFeinstein and others snatching inner-cityproperties the postal service is forced tosell far below their value to fulfill its legaldirective to self-destruct.

Still, I keep wondering when I'll hearmembers of our current Black politicalclass speak up for the postal service andthose good jobs postal workers had thatmade them the bedrock of Black communi-ties and civic activism everywhere.

I wonder why they haven't organizedforums and conferences and petitions andmass meetings to preserve the last of whatused to be the good jobs that made them apotent leading force in African-Americancommunities across the country, and evenmade some of their own careers possible.

Barack Obama doesn't have a majorityin Congress. But his favorite PresidentRonald Reagan never had one either, but itrarely stopped the old bastard from pickingthe fights he wanted to win, and often win-ning them. The American people as awhole DO reject privatization anytimethey're polled on it. That's why the Obamaregime and its collaborators dare not callwhat they're doing to public education orthe broadcast spectrum “privatization.”

The fight to halt the privatization ofthe postal service is certainly one the Blackpolitical class, with or without the presi-dent could pick and possibly win, or atleast slow down and delay for years. Butfighting for good jobs for ordinary peoplejust isn't our current Black political leader-ship. No doubt John Wesley Dobbs and thepostal workers I used to know in the 70sand 80s, are rolling over in their graves.

Herman Gaither

Some have referred to thefairyland-like world that somepeople seem to live in from dayto day as akin to living in abubble. The bubble keeps themfrom being aware of the realworld where people discussand debate ideas and ideals.The bubble acts to shut themoff from diverse opinions anddoes not allow them to haveoriginal thoughts.

It acts as a captured spacewhere conformity and adhesionto an assigned dogma is expect-ed. The bubble not only pro-tects them from the real worldbut it keeps them in a makebelieve world much like theone described in the book“1984.”

Others have referred to thealternative space where themindless following of a courseof action is required as livingon Bull-Droppings Mountain.Herein are a couple of exam-ples one might find by observ-ing activities within the moun-tain/bubble.

A recent town hall meetingheld by a member of the U. S.House of Representatives in

upstate South Carolina wasdesigned to update his con-stituents on pressing matters inthe country. He began with adetailed presentation of theimpact of looming cuts tonational defense, health servic-es, education and such. Hetouched on immigration andseveral other issues of interestand opened the floor for ques-tions and responses. That wasthe last attention paid to realissues.

The questions and discus-sion that occupied the rest ofthe meeting consisted of thingslike what he was doing to pre-vent the creation of a depend-ent class in America, what hewas doing to preventObamaCare from being imple-mented, and what was he doingto fight the president at everyturn. Many of those in attendancewere on social security or othergovernment supported servicesbut living in the bubble as theyare, the real world can beignored as long as you drinkthe conservative kool aid.

Another example of notseeing the real world was thespeakers list for the recentnational conservative summit

(CPAC). It did not resonatewith the organizers that theyjust lost their second straightnational election and lost seatsin the House and Senate. Theydid not see a need to addresschange and invited the sameold lot including Sarah Palin,Rick Santorum, Allen West,etc.

Noticeably absent was themost popular member of theirparty and the most electableperson, Chris Christie. Perhapshe was excluded because hedoes not live in the bubble.

On the outlandish side,consider the comments madeby Rush Limbaugh withrespect to gun ownership anduse. Rush stated that if JohnLewis (D-GA) had been armedback on the bridge into Selmaduring the civil rights strugglehe would not have been beaten.This is so absurd that youwould think that anyone mak-ing such a statement would bedeclared incompetent andshunned…but not so in thebubble.

Somewhat closer to home,consider the race for the 1stcongressional district. Haveyou ever seen such a spectacle?The cast of characters seem to

have morphed from a storybook with each one trying toget further to the right than thenext. Each is armed with cer-tain catch phrases and a knowl-edge base that is neither deepnor wide. But most of them arealive and well inside the bub-ble.

The challenge for the restof the world is to find a way todevelop some kind of rapportwith anyone in the bubble whomight be capable of an inde-pendent thought. This effort isdifficult when the bubble hasits own cable news channel, ahost of talking heads on talkradio, and growing presenceonline.

Ignorance is now in highgear with maximum exposure.

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NEW YORK - A judge struck down New York City'spioneering ban on big sugary drinks just hours beforeit was supposed to take effect, handing a defeat tohealth-minded Mayor Michael Bloomberg and creat-ing uncertainty for restaurants that had alreadyordered smaller cups andchanged their menus.

State Supreme CourtJustice Milton Tingling saidthe 16-ounce limit on sodasand other sweet drinks arbi-trarily applies to only somesugary beverages and someplaces that sell them.

"The loopholes in thisrule effectively defeat thestated purpose of this rule,"Tingling wrote in a victory forthe beverage industry, restaurants and other businessgroups that called the rule unfair and wrong-headed.

In addition, the judge said the Bloomberg-

appointed Board of Health intruded on the CityCouncil's authority when it imposed the rule.

The city vowed to appeal the decision, issued byNew York state's trial-level court.

"We believe the judge is totally in error in howhe interpreted the law, and we are confident we willwin on appeal," Bloomberg said, adding that the city

would emphasize to highercourts "that people are dyingevery day. This is not a joke."For now, though, the rul-

ing means the ax didn’t fallon supersized sodas, sweet-ened teas and other high-sugar beverages in restau-rants, movie theaters, cornerdelis and sports arenas."The court ruling pro-

vides a sigh of relief to NewYorkers and thousands ofsmall businesses in New

York City that would have been harmed by this arbi-trary and unpopular ban," the American BeverageAssociation and other opponents said.

B E A U F O R T / P O R TROYAL, SC - StartingMonday March 18th theCharles Lind BrownActivity Center and the PortRoyal Community and ArtCenter will have new oper-ating hours.

The decision to changethe hours at both centers,run by Beaufort County’sPark and Leisure Services(PALS), was made duringthe PALS board meeting.

The Charles LindBrown Center will be opento the public Monday-Friday 2pm-8pm.

The Port Royal Centerwill be open to the publicMonday-Friday 2pm-6pm.

These changes will notaffect the Circle of HopeCoalition that operates outof the Charles Lind BrownCenter Saturdays from12pm-5pm. That programwill continue. Both loca-tions will also honor anyprograms that are currentlyscheduled.

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CHARLOTTE, NC - UNC-ChapelHill basketball legend Michael Jordanhas filed for a Florida marriagelicense, according to multiple reports.

A spokeswoman for the PalmBeach County courthouse confirmedthat Jordan recently applied for alicense. The identity of the bride wasnot announced, but Jordan has beenengaged to his longtime girlfriend,Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto.

Jordan’s post-player career as abasketball executive has been decid-edly worse than his performance onthe court. He owns the CharlotteBobcats, which are the worst team inthe league by far for the second con-secutive year and have a valuation of$315 million, according to Forbes.

That ranks No. 29 in the NBA.Of course, Jordan might not care

about the team value in dollars. Afterall, he still earns $80 million a yearthrough endorsements.

Is Michael Jordan getting married?

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Terrence Howard on Oprah: “…Her and those

‘Tig Ol’Bitties’”

HOLLYWOOD, CA -Terrence Howard wasthrilled to have workedalongside Oprah in themovie titled “TheButler.” When describ-ing the intimate kissingscene he shared with the

woman he reveres as “Queen,” Howard may have given TMIto much information about his thoughts.

“Oprah and I had such chemistry,” Howard said. ” To beable to make out with Oprah and to have love scenes withher and those tig ol’ bitties … She’s such a lovely, volup-tuous woman … That was wonderful.” Tig ol’ bitties???Ouch! We’re sure Oprah and/or Stedman are not pleased tohear about his remark.

Mary J. Blige reportedly facing eviction

NEW YORK - Whatis going on with MaryJ Blige? Her moneytroubles just keep fol-lowing her around likea bad habit.

The singer’sfinancial troubles areworse than a littlerepossession here or atax lien there. She’sabout to be homelessin a minute.

According to the New York Daily News, she’s not beenpaying her rent in her upper West Side apartment since lastNovember and she might get kicked out.

“It was for not paying back rent,” said a real estatesource who has leased apartments at the building. A three-bedroom apartment at the Extell Development site, similarto the one Blige was renting, rents for $9,000 to $12,000monthly, depending on the view and amenities.

The NY Daily News says the 42-year-old singer wasthere for a little more than a year before the note was plas-tered on the front door of the pad.

Why her money is funny is a curious question. Blige’snet worth at one point was a reported $45 million, but she’sbeen hit with a few copyright infringement lawsuits latelythat could cost her somewhere around $1 million yearly.

Last year, New Jersey filed a $901,769 lien against her.She was also sued for failure to repay a $2.2 million person-al loan.

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