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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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Obama’s Policies are Causing Moral and Economic Decline, by Deneen Borelli

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Faced with the reality that his policies have failed to spur significant job growth, President Obama is blaming technology for high unemployment. During a recent NBC News interview Obama said, "There are some structural issues with our economy where a ...
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Is Gay Marriage Another Blow to the Struggling African-American Family? by Christopher Arps

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When Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) signed same-sex marriage into law in New York, his action highlighted our country's deep moral decline. What consenting adults do in the privacy of the bedroom is not my business nor concern. My objection to ...
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Voter ID is No Jim Crow — I Know, by Charles Butler

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Having experienced the psychological pain of Jim Crow laws firsthand, I won't allow those who likely only read about Jim Crow in history books to trivialize it. That's why I'm outraged about a recent edition of TV One's "Washington Watch" ...
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Affirmative Action in Basketball? Not Good There… Or Anywhere, by Jerome Hudson

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Exposingleftists.com arrived on the campus of the University of California, Merced last May to gather signatures on a petition calling for a redistribution of grade point averages. Not surprisingly, few star students wanted to share the fruits of their academic ...
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Forget the Debt Ceiling — Raise Our Moral Ceiling, by Jerome Hudson

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As the White House lobbies to raise the nation's debt ceiling, why not instead help raise its moral ceiling? After decades of rewarding bad behavior, it's in the government's best interest — and perhaps even its duty — to promote ...
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Obama’s Energy Policy Benefits America’s Elites, by Deneen Borelli

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Our nation's natural resources and access to affordable energy are under assault from environmentalists, business interests and progressive politicians. Their plan is to raise the price of fossil fuels to make renewable energy economically competitive. But too many Americans already ...
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Social Networking to Achieve Racial Unity, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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While I've supported a far less radical and more free market version of black nation-building than the New Black Panther Party, I realize that, for many reasons, nation formation in the traditional sense is a difficult and unlikely prospect today ...
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