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(REAL TIMES MEDIA)—The results came in last week and the cheering and recriminations have echoed throughout the political world. At the one year anniversary of Barack Obama’s historic election his party supposedly took a huge hit in the polls, losing governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia. You couldn’t switch channels last week without seeing Republican Party chair Michael Steele crowing about his party being on the upswing and how this is simply the beginning of how the GOP is on the comeback trail for the 2010 mid-term elections. I wouldn’t go that far, the major gubernatorial races of 2009 are a mixture of local and very few national issues, and the real revolution that might hit in the 2010 mid-terms isn’t even being talked about.

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Category: Opinion Written by Julianne Malveaux

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(NNPA)—President Ronald Reagan had his flaws, but he certainly could turn a phrase. In the 1980 presidential campaign he asked a question that has resonated in campaigns ever since.  “Are you better off than you were four years ago,” the former California governor asked in his race against Democratic President Jimmy Carter. The people answered with a resounding “no” and Ronald Reagan was elected. 

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Category: Opinion Written by George E. Curry

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(NNPA)—After creating an imbroglio because he refused to perform a marriage ceremony for a White woman and a Black man, Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell resigned under pressure. However, his stated reason for denying the couple a marriage license is still perplexing: “There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage,” he told the Associated Press. “I think those children suffer, and I won’t help put them through it.”
Let’s see, interracial children could suffer so much that one might become mayor of Washington, D.C. Another multiracial child might grow up to become CEO of the NAACP. One poor kid could develop into another Tiger Woods. And one, heaven forbid, might even become president of the United States. Each person holding those positions is biracial and they have “suffered” all the way to the top.

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Category: Opinion Written by Judge Greg Mathis

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Earlier this year, major corporations like General Motors, Bank of America and Citigroup received federal dollars—taxpayer money—to keep their operations afloat. Despite public outcries of corporate excess and financial mismanagement leading the entities to the mess they were in, the government followed through with these bailouts because it was the right thing to do for the nation’s economy. In the midst of all this, we’ve heard very little about small businesses, which are the backbone of the American economy. This recession has affected them, too. And it’s time we turn our attention in their direction.

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