Election Day Yields Conservative House

Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives and closed the gap in the Senate. The high profile seats remained liberal but a large majority of seats that did not get national attention went conservative. Read more

Obama opposes “reparations”

Instead advocates… reparations.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama reiterated his stance of opposition to offering reparations to the descendants of slaves arguing that the government should ‘combat the legacy of slavery by improving schools, health care and the economy for all.’ Meanwhile, two dozen members of Congress recently co-sponsored legislation to form a committee to study reparations (meaning ‘payments and programs to make up for the damage done by slavery’.) Read more