By The Admin on May 28, 2010
EVAN WEINER, New Jersey Newsroom
- Intentional or not, Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Dr. Rand Paul has opened the door to a new discussion over the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This column is not about Dr. Paul, his candidacy and his beliefs. He will have a thorough chance between now and November’s election to go over [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on May 27, 2010
House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-SC) joined Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), and Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA) on Capitol Hill to announce plans for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Freedom Rides in Jackson, Mississippi, May 22-28, 2011.
“This will be a celebration, of course, but more importantly it will be [...]
Posted in Congress
By The Admin on May 27, 2010
Richard A. Serrano and Kate Linthicum, Tribune Washington Bureau and Los Angeles Times
- Top Justice Department officials have drafted a legal challenge asserting that Arizona’s controversial immigration law is unconstitutional because it impinges on the federal government’s authority to police the nation’s borders, sources said Wednesday.
At the same time, the government officials said, the department’s [...]
Posted in Federal Government
By The Admin on May 27, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010 marks the first Sunday of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s (The National Coalition) month-long push to encourage hard-to-reach residents in the black community to participate in the 2010 Census. The National Coalition’s Unity Diaspora Coalition (UDC) has partnered with the National African American Clergy Network for the “Count on [...]
Posted in Federal Government
By The Admin on May 27, 2010
KEVIN HELLIKER, Wall Street Journal
- Fourteen-year-old Cornelius Thomas slipped off a raft and drowned in a high-school swimming pool earlier this month in Alexandria, La. He had never been taught how to swim. There aren’t any “pools for kids to learn how to swim around here,” Forest Martin, the boy’s grandfather, said Tuesday as he [...]
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