Time for Regime Change at the NAACP, by Ak’Bar Shabazz

New Visions Commentary /
After hearing Julian Bond and Kweisi Mfume trash President George W. Bush and black conservatives, it's painfully apparent what has become of the NAACP. A once-proud organization has been reduced to simple slander and rhetoric. The leadership that once produced ...
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One Righteous Dis: Bush Right to Turn Down NAACP, by Deroy Murdock

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Liberal bellies are aching over President George W. Bush's absence from the Philadelphia convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Citing scheduling conflicts, the White House sent the president's regrets. As journalists have explained in ...
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Spurring Lower Prices: FDA Aided America’s Rx Drug Consumers By Not Banning Authorized Generics

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For years, generic drug manufacturers have been telling us that making more generic drugs available - earlier - is the key to saving consumers money and bringing greater access to prescription drugs. Competition, they said, will benefit millions of Americans ...
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So Much for Supporting the Troops

You never can predict what is going to bother people. This correspondent takes issue with the fact that our U.S. Army correspondent from Baghdad, Joe Roche (and we), at times have referred to Joe's unit informally in posts on this ...
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Illegal Alien? No Problem Unpaid Ticket? Lose Use of Your Car

NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi points out this interesting enforcement priorities in a Washington suburb: In Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., police plan to adopt a narrow interpretation of a new state law aimed at curbing crime ...
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“Your Bloods Will Be the River of Hope for Us”

Sean at the Everything I Know Is Wrong blog has a very heartwarming roundup of selections from Iraqi bloggers today. If you would like to feel good about something today, read it. Then read it again tomorrow ...
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Some People Don’t Trust This Story

In the Reuters article today by Tom Perry entitled Governing Body, U.S. Pick CIA Link Allawi as Iraqi PM, the following paragraph appears: "It was unclear how far U.S. officials or Brahimi influenced the choice of a long-time exile known ...
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“Here in Baghdad We are Facing a Serious Sustained Terrorist Offensive”

In the last few days, the Washington Times, New York Times and Washington Post (here and here) all have run stories about the work of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq. This is, of course, the division to which our ...
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A Soldier’s Update: “Here in Baghdad We are Facing a Serious Sustained Terrorist Offensive”; Soldier Recounts Support for Enemy from Iran and Elsewhere; Describes Fortitude and Dedication of U.S. Servicemen

Press Release /
The National Center for Public Policy Research has posted online an e-mail received from a soldier, Spc. Joe Roche of the 1st Armored Division, who describes from the frontlines the U.S. military's efforts against terrorist offensives as the June 30 ...
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Family-Friendly Far From Fair? Part III

I received a thoughtful e-mail tonight regarding the conversation Ally (at the Who Moved My Truth blog) and I have been having about family-friendly policies in the workplace and society. With permission, I am sharing it: Hi. I've had the ...
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