The Hypocritical Move of the Civil Rights Movement

Protestors during the 1960’s and early seventies were correct to protest against the intentional killing of innocent civilians during the Vietnam war. Since that time, anti-war activists aided by the Hollywood machine have not grown tired of reminding us of these unfortunate events in our history.
What you will not hear is a comparison of the [...]

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FAA’s Education Ambassador: Jamail Larkins

The below is taken from Larkins’ website:
Jamail Larkins started flying at age 12.
Jamail Larkins performed his first airshow season in 2003. At the age of 12, Jamail flew his first flight with the EAA Young Eagles Program. Shortly after, at age 14 he became one of the youngest American pilots when he soloed a powered [...]

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The Good, Bad, and The Ugly of The President’s FY 2007 Budget

From: Citizens Against Public Waste
(Washington, D.C.) - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today had a mixed reaction to President Bush’s $2.8 trillion fiscal 2007 budget request.  Although the President has proposed $65 billion in savings over five years through a combination of program reforms and spending cuts, the fiscal 2006 projected deficit is $423 billion, [...]

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Open Call for Black Woman Photography Anthology

Greetings,
We are pleased to extend an invitation to submit work for an upcoming anthology on Black women photographers.
This anthology seeks to compile the works of Black Women photographers born 1965 and beyond. These are dynamic, young women who have an evident freedom in their vision. Their work aims at expanding the conversation on the medium [...]

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Niger Delta Militants Kidnap 9 Oil Workers (AllAfrica.com)

This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
February 18, 2006
Posted to the web February 19, 2006
By Segun James
Warri
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Barely 10 hours after helicopter gunship of the Nigeria Air Force launched the second in the series of planned raids on oil bunkerers in the Niger Delta at the Ijaw community of Okerenkoko, Ijaw militants in retaliation yesterday hit four oil industry facilities [...]

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Driver’s license or national ID card? (CNet.com)

SAN JOSE, Calif.–Motor vehicle agencies must link their databases together, and perhaps implant chips in driver’s licenses, as necessary steps to ease the way for a national ID card, the head of a group of motor vehicle officials said Thursday.
Technology that may be used for a national ID card could take the form of a [...]

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