January 2012
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“She couldn’t vote before 1965, just as I couldn’t.”
– Rev. Jesse Jackson
…referring to the Voting Rights Act that abolished poll taxes, literacy tests and other ways whites across the Deep South kept minorities from voting.
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…Civil rights leaders [are] bothered by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s stance on issues...
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'...there are reasons to think that we’re finally... →
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'...Romney said he wouldn’t release as many tax... →
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'...if we had done what the usual suspects on the... →
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That's what Newt Gingrich promises them...
In order to survive without moderating their policies, they must subscribe to the belief that if only they eliminate every program that helps poor people (including minorities), minorities will suddenly wake from a deep sleep and learn to embrace conservatives through the power of tough love. That’s what Newt Gingrich promises them. He is their answer to Barack Obama, their Savior,...
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'...Why has fact-checking evolved into a... →
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“She fears journalism.”
– Andrew Sullivan, on why he thinks Palin isn’t running.
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'...in the four years between presidential... →
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'...The GOP, the New York Times and the ‘Bog’ of... →
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'...many more people in poor communities than the... →
from Jim Sleeper’s “Social Conservatism isn’t ‘White’,” at Dissent magazine.
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“The government tells us that the economy and the recession is over…But...”
– Carey Adams, owner of the nonprofit God’s Pantry Ministry in Fountain, Colorado.
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