By The Admin on August 29, 2010
CNN
- My job as an imam and outreach director for the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, located minutes from the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, was created September 11, 2001, to convey a more accurate image of the American Muslim community and to create opportunities for interfaith cooperation and understanding distinct from the stereotypical image of [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on August 29, 2010
USA Today
- Mississippi school board today ended a 30-year-old policy that dictated the race of class officers in a particular year. The old guidelines, which rotated candidates’ race each year, were intended to increase minority representation amid discrimination.
“It is the belief of the current administration that these procedures were implemented to help ensure minority representation [...]
Posted in Education, Race
By The Admin on August 29, 2010
Washington Post
- Various figures denote vexing social problems. They include 10,000 (the number of new baby boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare every day), 10.2 percent (what the unemployment rate would be if 1.2 million discouraged workers had not recently stopped looking for jobs), $9.9 trillion (the Government Accountability Office calculation of the gap [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on August 29, 2010
Miami Herald
- More than a quarter of the $20 billion in direct federal relief that was earmarked for Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina remains unspent five years after the storm, a fact noticed by at least one congressional leader who’s eager to spend it elsewhere.
In June, U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the top [...]
Posted in Louisiana, Policy & Issues | Tagged Hurricane Katrina
By The Admin on August 29, 2010
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, accused people who wrongly believe Obama is Muslim of catering to political enemies during a fiery speech Sunday in Arkansas.
In his sermon at New Millennium Church in Little Rock, Wright criticized supporters of the Iraq war and defended former state Court of Appeals Judge Wendell [...]
Posted in Featured, White House | Tagged Jeremiah Wright
