MEDICARE PERSPECTIVE INDEX COMPILED BY EDMUND F. HAISLMAIER Pages in the House passed Medicare bill.1 747 Pages in the Senate passed Medicare bill.2 1,043 Estimated pages in the Medicare bill reported out of Conference Committee.3 1,100 Pages in the Clinton ...
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As a product of Cleveland's public school system, I can attest to its dismal state. To say that poor, inner-city students in Cleveland were not receiving a quality education would be like saying Michael Jordan is good at basketball. The ...
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Imagine this cinematic scenario: Superman, America's most famous superhero, saves a helpless baby in a perilous situation. Flying in at the last moment, our hero swoops up the helpless, adorable baby and places him safely in his anxious mother's arms ...
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It seems chic in liberal circles to elicit black support by telling us we can't succeed without their help. Liberal expectations of black students are obviously low. Their confidence in our natural abilities and intellect isn't strong by any means ...
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When Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) woke up on the morning of Senator Strom Thurmond's (R-SC) 100th birthday celebration, I'm sure he had no idea that he and his big mouth would be the biggest political story of last December. Lott, ...
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Congressional approval of and White House support for legislation that will help clean up areas of urban blight is being hailed by members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 as an environmental achievement that will benefit inner-city minorities. On ...
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This past election was the first in Arizona to be conducted under the Clean Elections Act. A ballot initiative passed in 1998, the Act provides public funding for candidates. Attorney Clint Bolick contends the new guidelines "proved to be anything ...
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Members of the conservative African-American leadership network Project 21 are dismayed by recent remarks by incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS). At a December 5 100th birthday celebration for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Lott said: "I want to ...
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Members of the conservative African-American leadership network Project 21 are dismayed by recent remarks by incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS). At a December 5 100th birthday celebration for retiring Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Lott said: "I want to ...
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A group calling itself People's Campaign for Justice at Wal-Mart -- no doubt armed with battering rams, maces and other 14th-century accoutrements of war -- is preparing to lay siege to some of the huge retailer's 3,200 stores around the ...
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