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Obama’s urban agenda
Category: Opinion Written by Judge Greg Mathis
Much has been made about the debate between two of our most respected Black leaders: Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton. The two men, both activists in their own way, disagree on whether or not President Obama should openly pursue an “urban agenda.” Smiley thinks Obama should be more aggressive in pursuing a Black agenda and thinks Black leaders are being too soft on him. Sharpton thinks pushing such a plan would put the president in a vulnerable position and that Black leaders, not the president, should pursue a plan for urban improvement. Reverend Sharpton is correct.
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Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:20
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Obama should reject top court candidate
Category: Opinion Written by George E. Curry
(NNPA)—Solicitor General Elena Kagan, said to be President Obama’s leading choice to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, would be a poor appointment and would be unlikely to mirror Stevens’ progressive voting record.
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Kagan, former dean of the Harvard Law School, was a finalist when Sonia Sotomayor was appointed by Obama to the court last year. Because she has already been vetted—and has won praise from some conservative quarters—White House sources have stated that she heads Obama’s short list of candidates to replace Stevens, the leader of the four-member progressive bloc of Supreme Court justices.
Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:20
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Pennsylvania can still ‘Race to the Top’
Category: Opinion Written by Courier Newsroom
It was disappointing to learn that Pennsylvania did not make the cut in the first round in the $4 billion federal grants competition known as Race to the Top. The federal Department of Education announced last week that out of 16 finalists, only Delaware and Tennessee were the first-round winners of the unprecedented competition.
Tennessee will get about $500 million and Delaware will receive $100 million, said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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Obama shifts focus, world is now safer
Category: Opinion Written by Courier Newsroom
Anyone who remembers the nuclear war drills when they were in elementary school should know how significant President Barack Obama’s changes days ago in America’s nuclear strategy really is. The sheer futility and folly of the world’s safety in the 1950s and 1960s and beyond was borne out by the drill that asked school children to get under their desks in the event nuclear war broke out.
There has been a long and meandering history of nations trying to set rules to prohibit nuclear warfare since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and, sadly, for most of that time the result has been unsatisfactory.
Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:20
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Born, dying, when will we be resurrected?
Category: Opinion Written by Louis 'Hop' Kendrick
On Good Friday I attended a service held at the historic St. James AME Church. The pastor is Rev. James Edward Murray Jr. The seven words—born, dying, when will we be resurrected?—is a misnomer, because it’s really seven statements made by the savior as he hung on the cross.
All seven guest ministers were excellent in their presentation. The first was delivered by Rev. Helen Burton, pastor, Ebenezer AME Church, Aliquippa, Pa. “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
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Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:20
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