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Analyst foresees ‘Google Tunes’
January 26, 2006 2:50 PM PST
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Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck predicted on Thursday that Google would roll out

By ROGER CATLIN, Courant.com
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When he employed DNA testing to find the roots of prominent African Americans for a new genealogy show on PBS for Black History Month, Henry Louis Gates Jr. couldn’t resist looking into his own family’s past.

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Below, you will find a few excerpts from articles that I have gathered from around the net that explains some of the details of the welfare system here in America. I may comment from time to time, but as usual you will be provided links to the full article.

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First, the news…
Al Sharpton Criticizes ‘Boondocks
AP
NEW YORK — The Rev. Al Sharpton has asked for an apology from Cartoon Network for an episode of edgy animated series “The Boondocks” that shows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. saying the n-word.

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I know I am somewhat late on this one, but it is still worth the mention.
‘Chicago Defender’ Say It’s Profitable for First Time in Two Decades
By Mark Fitzgerald
CHICAGO Despite a tumultuous year in which an editor

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First, the news…
Another one that goes unnoticed by black and mainstream media.
‘I have a dream’ becomes Castro’s nightmare
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In the latest exchange in the US-Cuban cultural war, the electronic tickertape mounted on the fifth floor of the US Interests Section in Havana began beaming King’s quotes in 2,7 metre-high red letters.
The passages were interspersed with sections [...]

I am planning to do an in-depth posting on illegal immigration here in the United States. In the meantime, after watching a politician begging for more money to better educate non-English speaking students, I had to ask the question “What percentage of non-English speaking students ‘legal US citizens?’” The following article does not answer that [...]