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The Rev. Al Sharpton on Reclaiming the Dream
When National Action Network members gather at Washington, D.C.’s Dunbar High School this Saturday, the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s beatified “I Have a Dream” address, they’d like everyone to be certain of one thing: They’re not reacting to Glenn Beck. “It’s something we do every year,” says Rachel Noerdlinger, a spokesperson for…
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What's in Store at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally?
With Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally set to take place near the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, the Internet is buzzing with speculation about what Fox News’ seemingly unstoppable juggernaut has up his sleeve this time. Though Beck pulls stunts — both grand and small — as a matter of course, this weekend’s event is of…
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White House Black Media Liaison Resigns
It’s always on Friday afternoons. Shortly after 5:30 p.m. today, Corey Ealons, director of African-American media for the Obama administration, sent an e-mail saying he was leaving his post, effective immediately. “It is with some sadness, but also great anticipation for the future, that I make my exit from the White House today,” he wrote.…
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Glenn Beck Censors His Fans
For evidence of how little Glenn Beck trusts his biggest fans’ behavioral inclinations, look no further than the guidelines the Fox News host has established for his August 28 rally at the Lincoln Memorial, an event he’s calling “Restoring Honor.” Along with rules forbidding guns (“real or simulated”), knives and alcohol, Beck is also putting…
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Muslims in Lower Manhattan, American Evangelicals in Iraq
Something to consider as the Cordoba House Islamic Center continues to get attacked by cowardly pundits and politicians from both parties is the increasing abundance of American Christian missionaries in Iraq. As U.S. combat forces ready their withdrawal from Iraq, conservative estimates are that between 97,000 and 106,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the…
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Glenn Beck: God Put My Rally on 'I Have a Dream' Anniversary
As you may know, Fox News’s enfant terrible Glenn Beck is hosting a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s momentous “I Have a Dream” address. As you may not know, Beck is claiming that divine intervention, not the careful machinations of a marketing team, led…
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Feelings Mustn't Trump Reason When It Comes to Rights
President Barack Obama’s sober assessment of the Cordoba House controversy late on Friday — “Muslims have … the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan” — has, as you might imagine, been met with dissimilarly unrestrained caterwauling. Possible Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that…
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The Week in Obama for August 16
It’s a week of campaign stops for Barack. President Obama began this week with a visit to ZBB Energy Corp., in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, where he touted the benefits of clean energy. “For years, we’ve heard about manufacturing jobs disappearing overseas. Companies like this one are showing us how manufacturing jobs can come back,” Obama…
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What Dr. Laura Said Wasn't Racist
So here we go again — another tedious descent into the “n-word” hole. This latest ride is courtesy of radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who, while speaking with a black female caller about problems in the woman’s interracial marriage on Tuesday, said the following: CALLER: How about the n-word? So, the n-word’s been thrown around…
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Could More Minority Bankers Have Prevented The Mortgage Crisis?
As Politico put it late last month, one of the “little-noticed” sections of the Wall Street reform bill gave the government power to kill contracts with firms that fail to initiate diversity in the workplace. Saying that it expects “fair inclusion” of women and minorities, the new law “goes further than any previous attempt by…
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