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Judicial Minimalism: Tortured Reasoning, Tepid Results

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“We issue no holding on §5 itself, only on the coverage formula.” So wrote U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in the Court’s recent decision in Shelby County v. Holder, striking down the coverage formula in Section 4 of ...
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Rangel Remark Wrong, Tea Party is Diverse, Distinguished

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As Rachel Jeantel’s testimony in the George Zimmerman trial made clear, “cr-cker” is a racially-charged term.  Yet a senior liberal lawmaker felt entitled to use it when referring to the Tea Party movement during an interview with a major Internet ...
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New Jobless Numbers No Reason to Celebrate

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It’s the first Friday of the month — time for the government to announce the unemployment figures during the previous month. For July, the overall unemployment rate fell to an all-time Obama low of 7.4 percent.  Before breaking out the ...
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A Clear Case Of Projection

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I stopped reading Paul Krugman a while ago as his column has descended into all out hackery.  But his most recent piece appeared in my Google Alert for “health care” and seeing the first few lines of it, I couldn’t ...
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Hypocritical Hubris

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“We’re at a point where we don’t need retailers.  Retailers need us.”  So explained D.C. City Council Member Vincent B. Orange (D-At Large) during a recent legislative hearing as to why he was voting to require Wal-MartThe D.C. City Council ...
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Project 21’s Newsome Seeks Serious Race Conversation on Canadian TV

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Discussing both President Obama’s comments on the George Zimmerman case and the upcoming rallies protesting the case’s not guilty verdict, Project 21 member Hughey Newsome offers constructive advice on America’s race problem on the 7/19/13 edition of the Canadian Broadcasting ...
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Using Race to Cover-Up Failure, Corruption

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Just posted on The Daily Caller’s web site is a new commentary from Project 21’s Hughey Newsome that shows how some politicians are more than willing to play the race card in order to overcome their stunning failure to lead ...
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Environmental Activists Politicize Dead Bees

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In a piece for Politix over the weekend, I provide some much needed context to a widely reported “bee memorial” service that took place earlier in the month. An estimated one hundred people braved scorching outdoor temperatures to attend a memorial ...
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Maybe We Should Have Lost Detroit?

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In the 1970s author John Fuller published a book entitled “We Almost Lost Detroit,” about the 1966 near meltdown of a nuclear reactor about 30 miles from the Motor City. After Detroit’s declaration of bankruptcy (or, apparently, an unconstitutional bankruptcy), ...
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Project 21’s Nedd on Jesse Jackson’s Post-Zimmerman Call for U.N. Intervention

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On the Monday after the George Zimmerman verdict was announced, finding Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin, the Reverend Jesse Jackson took to the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times to make the astonishing claim that “[i]f Trayvon ...
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