Tag: New Visions Commentary

We are Not Better Off, by Derryck Green

We are Not Better Off, by Derryck Green

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August was the 43rd straight month in which the overall unemployment rate remained above eight percent. While officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as 8.1 percent, the U-6 unemployment rate — totaling all potential workers (including those who ...
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EPA Regulations Take Peoples' Breath Away, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

EPA Regulations Take Peoples’ Breath Away, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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Primatene Mist is an over-the-counter (OTC) inhaler that has been used safely for over 50 years by millions of people coping with asthma. It was the only non-prescription inhaler available to the public before it was banned for sale by ...
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Eric Holder's Plantation, by Derryck Green

Eric Holder’s Plantation, by Derryck Green

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It's said Lyndon Baines Johnson used voter fraud to win his 1948 Senate primary campaign. In 1954, then-Senator Johnson orchestrated a law prohibiting church involvement in electoral politics. Yet it was LBJ's presidential library where Attorney General Eric Holder chose ...
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The Antidote to the Affordable Care Act Is Non-Participation, by Elaina F. George, MD

The Antidote to the Affordable Care Act Is Non-Participation, by Elaina F. George, MD

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Since the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare, the final piece of the puzzle is in place. America begins an inevitable slide away from patient-driven health care — individualized medicine led by independent doctors in consultation with their patients. In 1971, the ...
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Gabby Douglas Taking Home More Than Gold, by Djana Milton

Gabby Douglas Taking Home More Than Gold, by Djana Milton

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At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, as American athletes are locked in a fierce battle for medals with China, chapters are closing on some household names such as Michael Phelps while youngsters who go by Missy, Rebecca and ...
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Does the Tax Man Cometh? by Horace Cooper

Does the Tax Man Cometh? by Horace Cooper

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In a frustrating and disappointing blow to individual liberty, the Supreme Court's four reliable liberals and Chief Justice Roberts upheld a coercive and unprecedented federal encroachment on our freedom and our nation's health insurance industry. Liberals are celebrating while conservatives ...
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ID is a Civic Responsibility, by Charles Butler

ID is a Civic Responsibility, by Charles Butler

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President Obama lacks an urban agenda. Sure — he's all for policies that increase spending on food stamps, dismantle Clinton-era welfare reforms and enforce hiring quotas, but what has Obama really done to help black folk help themselves? It certainly ...
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Are You Better Off Today? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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In 1980, asking the American people to assess President Jimmy Carter's performance, Ronald Reagan posed the question: "Are you better off [now] than you were four years ago?" It was a simple yet very important question. Today, as President Barack ...
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What, to Black Americans, is the 4th of July? by Stacy Swimp

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On July 5, 1852, the famous black abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered a stinging indictment of American independence. He did so because it was not yet realized for black Americans. At Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, Douglass declared: "This Fourth ...
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Marriage is Not a Right, by Derryck Green

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May was a game-changer for the national conversation on homosexual marriage. On May 8, North Carolinans overwhelmingly voted in favor of Amendment 1. The ballot measure changed the state's constitution to define marriage as a union existing solely between a ...
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