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Week In Review

Justice Clarence Thomas takes aim at court’s critics

May 23, 2011

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas opened up to an audience of attorneys in his home state of Georgia on Tuesday, comparing critics of the bench to die-hard sports fans and wondering aloud whether they suffer from a “disease of illiteracy or laziness.”

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The Obama deception: Why Cornel West went ballistic

May 23, 2011

Perhaps there was never much of a struggle in Obama’s heart. Perhaps West only provided a moral veneer. Perhaps the dark heart of Emanuel was always the dark heart of Obama. Only Obama knows. But we know how the play ends. West is banished like honest Kent in “King Lear.”

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AP-GfK poll: Obama approval hits 60 percent

May 15, 2011

President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

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GLAAD joins calls for Congresswoman’s resignation

May 8, 2011

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has joined the state chapter of the  NAACP, the Oklahoma Democratic Party and the Oklahoma chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in calling for the resignation of Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern…

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Southern Poverty Law Center marks 40th Anniversary of civil rights

May 8, 2011

More than 2,000 people from all over the U.S. gathered here on Saturday for the 40th anniversary of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Diverse Issues in Higher Education reports.. They celebrated accomplishments of the past and looked to the future of the Center’s ongoing struggle for civil rights.

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Devastation at Shaw University

May 2, 2011

Visualize being miles away from your home and family and knowing that you will be surviving for the next couple of weeks with little or no money in your pockets and feeling imprisoned indoors due to a very rainy day.

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Foes of education cuts rally in central Pa.

May 2, 2011

Opponents of education cuts proposed to help balance the state budget focused Tuesday on central Pennsylvania in trying to persuade lawmakers to restore funding for K-12 schools and public universities.

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Head of OC GOP says email sender should resign

April 23, 2011

The head of Orange County’s Republican Party is vowing to keep up the pressure on a local GOP official to resign for sending an offensive email about President Obama. Marilyn Davenport spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday and said she considered the email depicting Obama as a chimpanzee political satire — not racism.

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