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<p>The same folks that led the unsuccessful opposition to welfare reform in 1996 are now targeting Republican efforts to reform Head Start, the federal government's $6.8 billion preschool program for the poor. When President Clinton finally signed the Republican-controlled Congress' historic welfare-reform legislation, Children's Defense Fund (CDF) President Marian Wright Edelman harshly denounced Mr. Clinton.</p>

FOOOOOLED YA! I bet you thought I was really going to run for president. Yeah, it would have been fun to let 'er rip and become the JACKASS of politics. However, the big problem was money. It takes BIG BUCKS nowadays to make a run for the White House. I would have to raise something like a million dollars per week. And the only way to raise that kind of dough is to work the phones around the clock. Unfortunately I no longer have that DNC calling card to make those freebie phone solicitation calls. Instead I would have...

The un-slap heard 'round the world Kathleen Parker August 21, 2002 'You know, some days I get so frustrated I just want to go up to the closest black person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a white thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health." Outrageous, right? No one said it. But what I wrote, only with the races switched, is what a black New York City Council member, Charles Barron, did say. Lest there be any confusion, here are Barron's exact words: "I want to go up to the closest white person and say, 'You...

"Some days I get so frustrated I just want to go up to the closest black person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a white thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health" http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | "You know, some days I get so frustrated I just want to go up to the closest black person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a white thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health." Outrageous, right? No one said it. But what I wrote, only with the races switched, is what a black New York City Council member,...