Inspirational Minute: Words From Iyanla Vanzant
Inspirational words from Iyanla Vansant to get your day started.
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Tennessee Tea Party Groups Demand Textbooks Overlook US Founders’ Slave-Owning History
A little more than a year after the conservative-led state board of education in Texas approved massive changes to its school textbooks to put slavery in a more positive light, a group of Tea Party activists in Tennessee has renewed its push to whitewash school textbooks.
Read MoreDon’t Stop At SOPA
Opposition to the Protect IP Act (“PIPA”) and Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) reached a fever pitch this week, following a coordinated effort by a number of technology companies and technology-related websites that included a day-long Internet “blackout” in protest of the proposed bills. And the opposition seems to have been remarkably successful, with the White House announcing its opposition to the bills and so many senators and representatives—including many former co-sponsors of the bills—withdrawing their support over the last
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Dutch Teen Completes Historic, Controversial Solo Sail Around The Globe
Some 518 days after she first set off alone in her sailboat, 16-year-old Laura Dekker glided into a Caribbean port on Saturday to complete her historic, and controversial, voyage around the globe.
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Go Sista! Obama Taps 31-Year-Old To Lead Black Voter Outreach
The Barack Obama re-election campaign on Wednesday named a 31-year-old former field director for the NAACP to be African-American Vote Director for the campaign’s Operation Vote outreach effort.
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Stefanie Brown, formerly the national field director for the NAACP in Baltimore, Maryland, will direct the campaign’s black voter outreach efforts. Operation Vote is the campaign’s national drive to get black, female, Latino, LGBT,
Read MoreRules Against Coordination Between Super PACs, Candidates, Tough To Enforce
Since 1999, the FEC has conducted a total of three investigations into alleged coordination between a candidate committee and an individual or organization making “independent expenditures.” Two of those probes resulted in fines totaling $26,000, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation.
The Citizens United Supreme Court decision and a lower-court ruling in 2010 allowed corporations, individuals and labor unions to make unlimited contributions to independent organizations that use the money to support or defeat a candidate. The ruling led
Read MoreRick Perry: Obama Administration “Over-Reacting” to Marine Controversy
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Sunday that Marines videotaped urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan made a “dumb” mistake, but should not face criminal prosecution.
Read MoreHip Hop That Helps Kids Stay Out Of Trouble
For a few hours a week in a community center in downtown’s Rampart area, high school kids are learning to make music without any of the instruments in the typical school orchestra. Instead, they generate beats on computers and tunes they can use live shows at the center, or maybe on an album.
Read MorePresident Obama Asks For Power To Reorganize Six Federal Agencies
President Barack Obama has thrown down the gauntlet to Republicans by asking Congress for the power to shrink the federal government.
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