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From Oh, That Liberal Media: This was from an Associated press story: WEST ALLIS, Wis. - President Bush (news - web sites) on Friday wished Bill Clinton (news - web sites) "best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery." "He's is in our thoughts and prayers," Bush said at a campaign rally. Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them. There's just one problem: the ...More

I just came across this article today. Walter Williams does an excellent job in presenting the dark side of socialism. Here is a piece of his article: What is socialism? We miss the boat if we say it's the agenda of left-wingers and Democrats. According to Marxist doctrine, socialism is a stage of society between capitalism and communism where private ownership and control over property are eliminated. The ...More

This is no doubt in my mind that America is in the middle of a revolution. No matter who wins this coming election, it will not change the fact that America has entered into a new era. Going to the movies now will no longer be the same. In the years ahead of us, we can expect to see increased political ideologies in just about everything around us. ...More

Since the release of the recent U.S. Census Bureau report on poverty, the media has ran with the perceived fact that poverty in this nation is growing at an astonishing rate. I find the following article a very interesting find because when I heard the numbers of this report, I knew that there was more to the story. This article does a very good job presenting the rest of that ...More

This is a picture of my cousin, Trevor. Right now, he is somewhere in Iraq fighting for the liberation of millions of people that he has never met. Trevor made the decision around the beginning of the war to enlist. No one came to rural, southern home to "trick" him into joining the armed services. He made the decision on his own. When his leadership told him that ...More

An article from the website Blackamericaweb.com entitled More Blacks Going to Prison in 17 Key Election States covertly makes that claim. The institute examined prison spending in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington (state), West Virginia and Wisconsin. Considered neither solidly Republican nor Democratic, those 17 swing states will be pivotal in whether Republican President George W. Bush is re-elected ...More

This is what the Miller Brewing company is saying after leaving African-Americans off of their rock and roll commemorative cans (I comment about this here). The olive branch that they are giving to African-Americans is a concert (that you still have to pay for to get in as far as I know) that will highlight Wyclef Jean, Bo Diddley, James Brown, Lenny Kravitz and others. So I guess for ...More