Tag: New Visions Commentary

Mayor Nutter’s City of Tough Love, by Lisa Fritsch

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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter went where few black leaders have gone. And I think I can count those other who did on one hand. Nutter dared speak truth to action on the critical state of black youth in this country ...
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Where’s the Proof to Crazy Claims About the Tea Party? by Deneen Borelli

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Andre Carson, where's your proof? Carson, a Democratic congressman from Indiana and the legislative "whip" for the Congressional Black Caucus, recently made incendiary accusations about the tea party movement and his colleagues supporting it on Capitol Hill. Those remarks appear ...
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How Well Do You Know Socialism? by Richard Dimery

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Barack Obama promised to transform America. Unfortunately, he is manipulating it toward European-style socialism. American society has been dumbed-down for decades. Too many now ignore the ramifications of current events on their lives and to our future. Much historical evidence ...
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It’s Once Again Time for Change, by Jimmie L. Hollis

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America — and Washington, D.C., in particular — is mired in angst and frustration. As our nation's economy and morality declines ever further, people demand answers as lawmakers play the blame game. One person seeking to escape culpability is President ...
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Wisdom of the Ages Applies to Today’s Budget Blowout, by Christopher Arps

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"Men of experience succeed even better than those who have theory without experience… If, then, a man has the theory without the experience, and recognizes the universal but does not know the individual included in this, he will often fail ...
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How to Really Win the Future, by Jerome Hudson

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President Obama is an O.P.M. addict. Our commander-in-chief is addicted to spending "other people's money." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is his pusher. The establishment media are his enablers. Consider what's happening in Washington right now with the debt ...
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Wasserman Schultz’s Racial Double Standard, by Deneen Borelli

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Remember the controversy over that conservative congressman's remark that any toddler who isn't in school will likely end up in jail? Remember the liberal acrimony over this obviously racist insinuation that black kids can either shape up or be shipped ...
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Debt Ceiling Fiasco Ignores Real Problems, by Charles Butler

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Just like when the ringmaster sends in the clowns, Americans watched the recent legislative circus in Washington in uncomfortable shock as lawmakers blustered to an accord on increasing the nation's debt. About the only thing the debt crisis did effectively ...
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Mandated Testing Can Be a Mendacious Indicator, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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Standardized tests are a major factor in charting the career paths of America's children. College and university admissions officers rely on standardized test scores to help them determine if a student's goals are feasible and if they are a good ...
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Dependent and Unable to Do for Self, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Black leaders have consistently advocated that black Americans must "do for self." Frederick Douglass promoted education in order to do for self. Booker T. Washington thought the best way to do for self was to train and acquire practical, technical ...
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