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Republicans Should Repudiate Rand Paul's Civil Rights Stand
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyThe best news Democrats received from Tuesday's election was not the victory of Mark Critz over Tim Burns in Pennsylvania's 12th District. It was the Senate primary victory in Kentucky of Republican Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul. The reason is that Democrats are going to take the views of the younger Paul, also a libertarian, and place them in bright neon lights. They understandably want him to become the face and intellectual representative of the modern GOP -- especially on matters of race. As much of the political world knows by now, Rand Paul has on several occasions indicated that he ...
Rand Paul Under Fire For Views on Civil Rights Act
By David Sessions - Politics DailyRand Paul, the son of Texas congressman Ron Paul and the newly minted Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky, came under fire this week from Democrats and others after media appearances where he refused to fully embrace the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that legally ended segregation in the United States. Paul defeated Republican opponent Trey Grayson on Tuesday. During his victory speech, Paul said he was bringing a "message from the Tea Party," which expected him to "take our government back." Controversy broke out after Paul was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" ...
Labor, Civil Rights Groups Will Rally in D.C. to Push Back on Tea Party
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe NAACP and several labor unions will rally in Washington this fall to push for new jobs and to give a voice to working class Americans who say the conservative Tea Party movement doesn't represent their views. "It's very annoying to see the Tea Party folks on television all the time as if they're speaking for working people, while all they're doing is divide working people and push our agenda back, both racially and economically," George Gresham, a march organizer and local member of the Service Employees International Union, told The New York Times. "It is annoying that some people treat ...
Obama Eulogizes Dorothy Height, Civil Rights Leader, as 'Historic' Figure
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe late civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height loved hats -- big, flamboyant hats -- and she wore them like a crown, President Obama said at her funeral Thursday. Height, 98, died last week after a career in the civil rights movement dating back to the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. One of the few women in a leadership role in the early days of the movement, she lobbied Eleanor Roosevelt and President Truman on civil rights issues. Height served as president of the National Council of Negro Woman for 40 years, until her retirement in 1997. She marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and ...
Dorothy Height, Civil Rights Matriarch Active for Six Decades, Dead at 98
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDorothy I. Height, called by President Obama the "godmother" of the civil rights movement for her role as the only woman in a top leadership spot in its early days, died Tuesday of natural causes in Washington. She was 98, and her career of activism spanned six decades. Height served as president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years, until her retirement in 1997. She lobbied Eleanor Roosevelt and President Dwight D. Eisenhower on behalf of civil rights issues, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton in 1994. In 1963, Height was on the podium with ...
USDA to Pay Black Farmers $1.25 Billion
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Feb. 23) -- Some 70,000 black farmers have reached a $1.25 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for years of discrimination in farm loans and subsidies. But after generations of disappointment, this group of farmers knows the fight isn't over until the check arrives. Though President Barack Obama asked for $1.15 billion for the farmers in anticipation of a settlement, Congress has yet to approve any funds for the payout. And until it does, black farmers and their supporters say the class-action lawsuit that has plagued the USDA for more than a decade cannot be put to ...
Opinion: Reid, Rage and Race
By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News(Jan. 12) -- Conventional wisdom says I should be boiling over in sheer rage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had the audacity to say during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama was a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." To quote the great Snagglepuss, "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" Sen. Reid has been outed for echoing a familiar sentiment expressed throughout the last election. But how dare he express it in a way that sounds so ... quaint? I mean, that sort of political incorrectness just isn't something to be expected from ...
Where the Gay Marriage Debate Should End
By Willy Hameline - Politics DailyIt is a wonderful feeling to have a say in something you really believe in. Earlier this month, atop the ballot in Maine, Question 1 gave voters like myself the chance to determine the fate of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Question 1 was a veto – a "Yes" vote would quash marriage equality, a "No" vote would uphold it. Maine's ballots are charmingly low-tech. Two broken arrows – one for yes, the other for no – point at the issues, and it's up to the voter to color in the one he favors. When all was said and done, a majority – 52.7 percent ...
Clinton, Palin, Steinem, Friedan: The Amazing Journey of Women In Our Lifetime
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThere are historical turning points that you recognize as you're living through them, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and then there are world-changing moments that only emerge in hindsight. Take the day Rep. Howard Smith of Virginia proposed that women as well as minorities should be protected against job discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He likely meant it as a joke, Gail Collins writes in her new book, never dreaming it would be adopted or enforced. But it was, and oh my, where it has led us. ...
Did Bob McDonnell Read 'The Handmaid's Tale'?
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyThree years before Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell submitted his now-famous thesis at Regent University, (in which he described working women as detrimental to the family, called for a "covenant view" of marriage, and said government should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators"), the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood published her novel "The Handmaid's Tale." The same principles that McDonnell puts forth in his thesis are imagined into action in the extreme. ...
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