By The Admin on May 25, 2011
Roll Call
- The mostly white crowd that turns up for weekly meetings at King Street Patriots is becoming a problem for tea party leaders.
The “monochrome composition” of the gatherings must change, they say, if conservatives want to keep this Texas county out of Democratic hands in 2012.
“The tea parties recognize the urgency. They want their [...]
Posted in Party Politics, Race
By The Admin on May 25, 2011
New America Media
- Back in 2006, when the 1965 Voting Rights Act was up for renewal, a number of Republican lawmakers protested that its time had passed; that the states and municipalities that once worked to keep blacks away from the polls and locked into second-class citizenry had learned their lesson.
But it’s a lesson in [...]
Posted in Florida
By The Admin on May 25, 2011
The Atlanta Post
- A recent article published by Chicago Now and written by Angela Caputo revealed that the cost to incarcerate a 16 year-old in Illinois is $72,384 per year, while the cost to mentor falls between $3,000- $6,000 per year and $1700 to employ them over ten weeks at a summer job.
We have stood [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Policy & Issues
By The Admin on May 25, 2011
Atlanta Post
- It appears Florida Gov. Rick Scott is a fan of the days when discriminatory voting practices were in place to discourage African Americans from voting because he recently signed into law a bill that blatantly disenfranchises those who are black and poor.
First, his new law has cut early voting days from 15 to [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on May 25, 2011
President Barack Obama says there will be no “let up” in the pressure that the U.S.-backed NATO coalition is applying to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power in Libya.
The coalition launched a withering bombardment on Gadhafi’s stronghold of Tripoli on Tuesday. Gadhafi remains in power two months after an air campaign began, but Obama insists that [...]
Posted in International News, White House
