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Via AP: The Democratic Party, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and two groups associated with the civil rights activist have agreed to pay a total of $200,000 in civil fines for campaign finance violations in the 2000 elections. At issue in the Federal Election Commission case was about $450,000 in election spending by Jackson, the Rainbow/PUSH [...]

You know that story about minority students being evacuated from a university because of racially motivated hate mail? Jesse Jackson even showed up to harangue college administrators. Well, a student has been arrested–A black female student who faked the threat because she wanted to go home: A student who was apparently homesick was arrested and [...]

Back in October 2003, three days after a FBI bug was found in Mayor John Street’s office, Street had a phone conversation with his friend Ron White in which they discussed using the race card as a tactic in the upcoming mayoral election against Rep candidate Sam Katz. The election was less than a month [...]

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. [...]

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. *** Leave the [...]

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 [...]

…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 [...]

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 [...]