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6:37 am February 16, 2018

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A New Look Into Poverty in America

6:37 am February 16, 2018
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In 2015, as told on the Center for Advancing Opportunity website, Johnny C. Taylor Jr., then-president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, heard libertarian billionaire businessman Charles Koch, in a TV interview, discussing eliminating barriers to opportun...

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6:45 am February 14, 2018

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Black History Month

6:45 am February 14, 2018
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Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar, historian and educator, created "Negro History Week" in 1926, which became Black History Month in 1976. Woodson chose February because it coincided with the birthdays of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abra...

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11:45 am February 12, 2018

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Trump — Middle American Radical

11:45 am February 12, 2018
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President Trump is the leader of America's conservative party. Yet not even his allies would describe him as a conservative in the tradition of Robert Taft, Russell Kirk or William F. Buckley. In the primaries of 2016, all his rivals claimed the mantle o...

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6:49 am February 12, 2018

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Gun violence is not an epidemic and firearms are not viruses that need to be eradicated!

6:49 am February 12, 2018
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The public health establishment, supported by the medical journals, has renewed its call for the need for more gun research to be conducted by the CDC and funded by taxpayers. In other words, public health researchers want more taxpayer’ money to tell us that ...

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6:33 am February 7, 2018

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Celebrate Black History by Promoting Black Ownership

6:33 am February 7, 2018
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I have long been in favor of reforming Social Security by changing it to a system of personally owned retirement accounts. Instead of paying a payroll tax, with the U.S. government telling you what you'll get when you retire, you take ownership of that mone...

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6:42 am February 6, 2018

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Nunes Duels the Deep State

6:42 am February 6, 2018
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That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman Devin Nunes may not have sunk the Mueller investigation, but from the sound of the secondary explosions, this torpedo was no dud. The critical charge: To persuade a FISA court to issue a warrant to s...

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6:45 am February 5, 2018

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Democrats, Why Do You Find Patriotism Divisive?

6:45 am February 5, 2018
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Did you ever think you'd see the day when a prominent political party would accuse the president of being divisive and exclusionary for saying "America" too many times during his State of the Union speech? The American Civil Liberties Union made that very c...

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11:45 am February 2, 2018

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Never-Trump Press in Near Panic

11:45 am February 2, 2018
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"All the News That's Fit to Print" proclaims the masthead of The New York Times. "Democracy Dies in Darkness," echoes The Washington Post. "The people have a right to know," the professors at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hammered into u...

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11:35 am February 2, 2018

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Bogus Racist Claims Against Trump

11:35 am February 2, 2018
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As President Trump lays out and implements his vision for American success — via his campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again" — there remain defiant naysayers. Among the most defiant are those who want to talk about race. They oppose Trump, claiming h...

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6:47 am February 2, 2018

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Unhappy with Trump? Imagine this!

6:47 am February 2, 2018
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President Trump's first State of the Union address is a fine occasion to imagine how close we came to a President Hillary Clinton. Imagine if Clinton had actually campaigned in the Midwest instead of Arizona and won the closely contested Wisconsin, Michigan an...

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