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Recently, I came across the following video (I believe this is the program my wife was telling me about last week--just thinking out loud) that caused me to take some pause. Check it out. Not too long ago I took my kids (and the neighbor's kids) to the local toy store. My daughter was the only girl in the group, so I stuck with her as she browsed the "girl section" ...More

ISG moves from consensus to conflict By DANIEL LIBIT politico.com In December 2006, in an effort to build a national consensus on a “new way forward in Iraq,” the Iraq Study Group painted itself as a portrait of bipartisan chumminess, with all political hackery checked at the door. Sixteen months later, seven of the 10 ISG members are backing presidential candidates with radically different views about how to proceed in Iraq. Republicans James Baker, Lawrence ...More

Black colleges seeking more financial support from alumni By DIONNE WALKER ETTRICK, Va. (AP) — Making money, administrators at Virginia State University have learned, takes money. The majority black school has spent millions of state dollars renovating buildings, partly to heighten school pride among alumni they hope will respond by opening their own wallets. It's working: Alumni support has risen from 7 percent five years ago to 10 percent, and individual gifts have ...More

"I mean this is just, you know… You gotta go something to play the race card on me -- my office is in Harlem. And Harlem voted for Hillary, by the way. And I have 1.4 million people around the world, mostly people of color in Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and elsewhere, on the world’s least expensive AIDS drugs. I appointed more African American, Hispanic and women judges and U.S. ...More

Frank sides with CBC, holds fast on Cherokee funding By Kevin Bogardus thehill.com Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has threatened to block housing legislation for Native Americans if the final bill does not include a funding ban against the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma . Frank shares a concern first raised by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), whose members have proposed several measures to punish the tribe for changing its constitution last year to exclude the ...More