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A Plan of Action

D. R. Tucker | Posted 05.22.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Boston Globe, Boston Latin School, Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Joseph L. Tauro, Diversity, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Payzant, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Black Voices News
D. R. Tucker

I could not have imagined on Nov. 19, 1998, that within ten years, an African American would be elected president, and my ideological allies would respond with a rhetorical and political assault that made my own attacks on Judge Tauro look polite by comparison.

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The Civic Spirit

D. R. Tucker | Posted 07.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Boston Latin School, Sarah Palin, Harry Blackmun, Barack Obama, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Michael Contompasis, John Powers, Boston Globe, Home News
D. R. Tucker

After four years of listening to people insinuate that President Obama is an illegal immigrant from Kenya with a burning desire to implement de facto reparations, I've come to realize that diversity is indeed an essential part of educational development.

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Diploma Of Harvard's First Black Alum Discovered In Condemned Chicago House

Posted 03.15.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: WEB Dubois, Reginald Hudlin, Cornel West, Hill Harper, Richard Theodore Greener, Deval Patrick, Courtney B. Vance, Suzanne Malveaux, Thomas Sowell, Harvard, Colson Whitehead, Barack Obama, Black History Month, Harvard University, Soledad O'Brien, Rashida Jones, Black History, Tyra Banks, Henry Louis Gates, Harvard-Alumni, Black Voices News

An abandoned home near 75th and Sangamon, on Chicago's South Side, was the unlikely hiding place for an important piece of black history -- the papers...

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Ward Connerly's Income Inequality

D. R. Tucker | Posted 03.24.2012 | College
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Proposition 209, National Review, Ward Connerly, Linda Chavez, Douglas Allen, George W. Bush, Nathan Harden, Thomas Sowell, Armstrong Williams, Harry Blackmun, Jennifer Gratz, No Child Left Behind Act, Jeff Jacoby, New York Times, Diane Watson, College News
D. R. Tucker

If it's true that Connerly opposed public-sector affirmative action merely as a way to line his own pockets, then he has to be considered the right's biggest embarrassment since Armstrong Williams.

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Can The Question That Troubles Our Faith Really Be Answered?

Rev. Peter M. Wallace | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Holly Pyle, Thomas Sowell, God's Justice, Questioning God, Christian Justice, Christian Faith, Story of Job, Questions of Faith, Book of Job, God's Love, The Chronicles of Narnia, Love Your Enemy, Religion News
Rev. Peter M. Wallace

The problem for people of Christian faith is that there really aren't very many good answers to the question of "why" in the Bible.

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People Still Love Books

John Kremer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Kindle, Hennessey + Ingalls, Books, New Books, Thomas Sowell, Hollywood, Bookstores, Ipad, Ebooks, Lauren Graham, Martha Zoller, Books News
John Kremer

I just saw these quotes yesterday. They reveal how much people still love reading books:

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The Cheapness That Is Not: Thoughts on the BP Spill

Laura Penny | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: BP Oil Spill, Wallstreet Crash, Unemployment, Economic Costs, Sarah Palin, Environment, Obama, Banking Crisis, Thomas Sowell, Teaparty, Glenn Beck, Environmental Protection, Books News
Laura Penny

Why did BP build a well it cannot fix? Because it was "cheaper" for them to do so.

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