Fascinating leaders

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Glenn Beck crowd: Not so white as advertised

Yours truly reported from Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally on August 28. It was ENORMOUS – probably 500,000 people. Al Sharpton had announced he would lead “progressive” protesters to the Lincoln Memorial and “reclaim the dream” of Martin Luther King. To the best of my knowledge, no one spotted him there. After all, Alveda King, [...]

Armless man Liu Wei plays piano and inspires me!

AN armless Chinese pianist has wowed audiences on “China’s Got Talent” with a flawless performance of the classic “Mariage D’amour” – using only his toes. Liu Wei lost both his arms when he was 10 after he touched a high-voltage wire during a game of hide-and-seek. But the 23-year-old stunned hundreds of thousands of people [...]

Aug. 11 Washington launch for ‘Sellout’ book on faith, race, politics

CONTACT: Jay Collins Libertas Global Partners Jay@libertasglobal.com 703-896-0131 What would you do if you realized that what you believe and what you practice don’t line up? This was the question facing Ron Miller, author of the new book SELLOUT: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch, once he left home and began to ponder the values with [...]

Singer’s warning: We’re ‘Takin’ Back Our Country’

‘It’s about us standing together as Americans’ July 29, 2010 12:40 am Eastern By Anita Crane © 2010 WorldNetDaily In many ways, Joyce Shaffer is the quintessential country singer. She grew up as the ninth child of a dirt-poor sharecropper, then married young and raised her children amid tremendous hardship. Nevertheless, Shaffer found joy in the beauty [...]

Ron Miller challenges black Americans in ‘Sellout’

Updated Aug. 10, 2010 Black conservative Ron Miller’s gutsy new book Sellout: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch couldn’t be more timely as the NAACP and other liberals are charging the Tea Parties with racism and – in the wake of President Obama’s election, no less – Shirley Sherrod’s husband Charles claims that black people can [...]

40 Days for Life Fall 2010 preview

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Black Cherokees’ racism case moved to DC federal court

The lengthy saga of the black Cherokees fighting racism in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is slowly but surely moving forward. To understand the crux of the cases, see a brief but thorough report in last year’s story Who’s the racist now? Before we get to the most recent statement by the Freedmen’s leader Marilyn [...]

How many hearts would ache without Andrea Bocelli?

‘Blueprint’ Obama exposé is a pre-election must-read

Ken Blackwell’s discussion of The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” didn’t exactly make the case. Stewart essentially mocked the thesis and Blackwell seemed nervous in the spotlight. Afterward, some anonymous critic at the Huffington Post huffed and puffed with false claims. [...]

Eduardo Verastegui hosts Latino ‘United for Life’ congress in L.A. on May 23

“The threat to innocent life isn’t limited to the poorest nations.  We need to be vigilant in promoting the dignity, beauty and incomparable worth of every human person right where we are.” —Eduardo Verástegui, Manto de Guadalupe Los Angeles, Calif.—Actor, producer and human rights advocate Eduardo Verástegui is hosting the first-ever Latino United for Life [...]