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Why Is President Obama Sidestepping the Immigration Issue?
President Obama has been criticized for not taking a more aggressive stance on immigration. His critics say he doesn’t want to be caught up in a contentious issue with important elections ahead. This author says it’s more complicated than that. With his crammed domestic agenda and teetering approval ratings, President Obama is moseying away from…
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Texas School Board Rewrites History
The Texas State School Board just won’t let well enough alone. The board voted 9-5 Friday to revise the curriculum of history taught in state schools to reflect a more conservative view. The guidelines will be used in teaching the state’s 4.8 million students over the next ten years. But the seven-member conservative bloc on…
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Aiyana Jones' Funeral: Hundreds Mourn Slain Child
Hundreds of mourners filled Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit to say a final good-bye today to 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones, who was cut down last Sunday by a police bullet when officers raided her home looking for a murder suspect. According to the Detroit News report from the funeral service: Teen music artist Justin Bieber’s…
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Payday Lenders Get Their Way in Financial Reform
Payday lenders won’t be limited in their shenanigans The legislation that now appears destined for President Obama’s desk won’t include an amendment that would have limited the number of high-interest loans payday lenders could make to cash-strapped consumers. The industry had mounted an aggressive “grass-roots” effort to sway lawmakers by having customers voice opposition to…
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Aiyana Jones' Neighbors Say House Was No Place for Child
Below is an excerpt of an exclusive from Black Voices: As they reconcile the senseless death of a young child at the hands of Detroit police, neighbors of the residents who live in the home, where 7-year-old Aiyana Jones was killed, also welcome a newfound peace on that block of the East Side neighborhood. Although…
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Rodent Makes Appearance During Obama Wall Street Presser
So what furry creature scurried across the Rose Garden steps while President Obama gave a statement on his Wall Street reform bill? Obama seemed not to notice the furry visitor, but his audience certainly did. After the statement, when Obama was out of earshot, reporters and photographers started arguing about the species of the creature, The Associated Press reported. Was it a rat? A mouse? A mole? “I would partially rule out rat,” said Russell Link,…
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NEWS STAND: New Rules for Banks and Borrowers, Zuma's Tears, ACLU Defends Kids Sexting, and more..
Better Late than Never: New bank rules for lenders and borrowers http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul From our better late than never file, new rules for banks and consumers have emerged following the housing bubble that burst and decimated the economy. After much debate, Congress is getting tougher on the lenders and borrowers by creating new bank rules. Banks…
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