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Jesse Jackson

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Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as "shadow senator" for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son.

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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.: Abolish the Electoral College: House Joint Resolution 36

The Huffington Post - 13mins ago

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in the laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as ..

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Minorities deserve their share of stimulus jobs

KansasCity.com - 1day 15hrs ago

Thousands of people who returned to their homes throughout the U.S. after the NAACP convention in Kansas City should have stayed longer.</p><p>They left a lot of unfinished business...

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Blagojevich defense gives theatrical closing argument

Chicago Sun-Times - 1day 17hrs ago

He yelled. He whispered. He argued. He paced. He apologized. He made jurors double over in laughter one minute -- and attempted to draw outrage the next. Defense Lawyer Sam Adam Jr.'s closing remarks in one of the h...

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National Review Online: Kennedy, Unsentimentally

NPR - 2 days ago

He may have sometimes seemed like a gin-soaked anachronism from The Beautiful and the Damned who somehow wandered into 21st-century America, but Edward M. Kennedy is a permanent rebuke to F. Scott Fitzgerald and his ass...

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'Fear factor': Sherrod blame game

Politico - 3 days ago

Nearly a week after the Shirley Sherrod controversy shook the political firmament, the debate over what it all means continued to drive the political discourse, dominating such end-of-we...

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introduces…the Absolute Moral Authority card

Hot Air - 4 days ago

Find yourself in a jam? Are your Anti-War lies catching up with you? Then use the Absolute Moral Authority card and get right out of trouble free. Once you play the Absolute Moral Authority card, no one can ever questi...

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