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What others are saying around the ’sphere in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day…
Juliette Ochieng says “Thank you”
Casey Lartigue tackles Dr. King’s legacy and the school-choice angle.
Dawn Eden highlights MLK’s niece Alveda, an outspoken opponent of abortion.
Dustbury on Why This Day Matters
Molotov at Booker Rising on the centrality of Rev. King’s Baptist faith
Michael King muses:
Contrary [...]

Mindless liberal critics like to paint every conservative journalist as a Republican-subsidized cheerleader. The wasteful, foolish, and shameful Armstrong Williams/Education Department’s “Pay to Pander” scandal certainly doesn’t help. For the record, I am reprinting my column on “No Child Left Behind” published Aug. 2, 2000. Some of us are not for $ale.
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Rep. Richard H. Baker (R-La.), chairman of the House Financial Services subcommittee that monitors government-chartered Fannie Mae, is continuing his relentless campaign to hold the financial behemoth accountable to taxpayers.
Fannie Mae’s current and former executives should be forced to return any of the millions of dollars in bonuses they received since 2001 that were based [...]

…make sure you read this article about the hard-core rappers who were given major musical roles in the animated movie, including Ludacris and Eminem proteges D12.
In case you were unfamiliar with D12, here are the vile lyrics to one of its popular “songs” with Eminem. Please excuse their profanity. (Apparently, Dream Works has.)
BLOW MY BUZZ, [...]

Bill Cosby addressing Jesse Jackson’s PUSH conference in Chicago this week:
It is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us, and it keeps a person frozen in their seat. It keeps you frozen in your hole that you are sitting in to point up and say, ‘That’s the reason why [...]