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Rhode Islanders may get a chance to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name over its ties to colonial slavery. Officially, Rhode Island is called the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. But the House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution Tuesday that would allow residents to vote next year on whether to drop the words "Providence Plantations" from that name. The issue now heads for a House floor vote. Supporters say "Providence Plantations" conjures painful images of colonial slavery. Rhode Island merchants grew wealthy off the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

America’s two failed experiments with socialism, Jamestown Colony and Plymouth Colony have overshadowed America’s most successful experiment with socialism. The contrast is stark, so perhaps a retrospective examination of America’s successful Utopia is in order. That Utopia survived for about 246 years, yet so few Americans are aware of its Utopian character and existence. Liberals are trying to recreate this Utopia but may be ignorant of its existence and success. For their benefit and ours, let’s review some of the facts. For the sake of brevity, I shall henceforth refer to this American Utopia as SPS for reasons that will...

April 2, 2009 Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/April/09-nsd-297.html Defendant Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Export Military Aircraft Parts to Iran WASHINGTON – Traian Bujduveanu has pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to a charge of conspiring to illegally export military and dual use aircraft parts to Iran. Bujduveanu appeared on behalf of himself and his now defunct corporation, Orion Aviation, in federal court in Miami today to announce his guilty plea. Bujduveanu’s co-defendant, Hassan Keshari, and his corporation, Kesh Air International, pleaded guilty in January 2009, and are awaiting sentencing. The guilty plea was announced...

Excerpt from Question: Why should public schools receive equal funding? If some communities choose to pay higher property taxes, why shouldn't they be entitled to a more well-funded education if they so choose? Why must the state ENFORCE a faux equality? We all know the D.C. public schools and the California public schools receive some of the highest funding in the country, yet perform miserably. Yet when you look at the states that succeed the most academically, you'll note that while Wisconsin and Minnesota pour money into their public schools, Wyoming and Montana don't. Yet all four states perform in...

A rival campaign is circulating another pair of videos of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) echoing Deval Patrick, a friend who is now the Massachusetts governor. This time, Obama is reading from notes or a text. In the instance that drew a charge of plagiarism from the Clinton campaign earlier this week, the senator was apparently ad-libbing — the remark did not appear in the text released by his campaign. Here is Deval Patrick on June 3, 2006, according to an 11-second YouTube video posted Tuesday afternoon: "I am not asking anybody to take a chance on ME. I'm asking you...

PLANTATION -- - A Davie man accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend this weekend has been charged with first-degree murder and was also arrested on a outstanding warrant for armed burglary, said Plantation Police Detective Robert Rettig. Leonel Garcia, 32, is accused of shooting Lorenza Krulik, 52, to death on Saturday outside her home in the Sunshine City Mobile Home Park in the 13400 block of Northwest Fifth Street, police said.

The night started like many for John Lovell, a 71-year-old ex-Marine and helicopter pilot who served two presidents. Late dinner alone at a Plantation Subway shop -- veggie sub, soda, oatmeal cookie. Wednesday night, though, Lovell's meal was interrupted by an armed robbery. Two gunmen stormed into the sandwich shop at about 11 p.m., robbed the cashier and tried to shove Lovell -- the lone customer -- into the bathroom. Two bullets later, one gunman was dead, another was wounded and Lovell was being hailed as a hero. ''There's no such thing as an ex-Marine, and he typifies this,'' said...

In January, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before a Senate subcommittee regarding President Bush's new Middle East foreign policy and to answer questions regarding the funding of 21,500 additional troops and ancillary personnel to send to the war in Iraq – a subcommittee now controlled by the Democrats and the mercurial Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Normally, in a time of war when you have one party that controls the executive branch and another party controlling the legislative branch, the debate at these hearings can become exceedingly combative. Why? As President George W. Bush descends into the oblivion of lame-duck...

My apologies in advance on this story; I just happened to catch this on several different newscasts a few minutes ago, and I am going by memory as best I can. Unicoi County (Tennessee) sheriffs arrested two Israeli men after a high-speed chase down mountain roads in this east Tennessee locale. While the sheriff was in pursuit, local witnesses noticed that materials were being thrown from the truck as it sped by, well over the posted speed limits. These witnesses were able to locate some of these items; one of which included a jug whose contents became "unusually hot" after...

SEN. BIDEN SHOCK INTERVIEW: OBAMA FIRST 'CLEAN' BLACK IN MAINSTREAM... 'I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy'...

Already Clear that the Democrats Have No PlanMonday January 22, 2007 After the November election, I decided to take a look at life six months later and see how well the Democrats had done in making life better, since that was the theme of their campaign - make life better with a new direction for the country. I was and still am willing to give them a chance. Sadly, it has been mere weeks, and they are off to a dismal start. Democrats force-fed us with their vows to end political corruption. However, to this day, they remain mute and...

NEW YORK - On Wynton Marsalis' upcoming CD, he criticizes political leadership in America, cultural corruption, and sex and violence in rap — and that's just on one song. "I don't speak from outside, I'm not finger-pointing," the 45-year-old jazz great told The Associated Press in a recent interview. "I'm a part of it, I'm speaking from inside of our culture," Marsalis said. "We're not taking a moralistic view. It's not, `Let me tell y'all how I'm different from you.' It's a comment on our way of life and our culture." "From the Plantation to the Penitentiary" is due out...

<p>HANOI, Vietnam -- Foreign investment pledges in Vietnam are on pace to set a new annual record, surging by nearly 50 percent so far this year, officials said Monday.</p> <p>As of Nov. 20, overseas companies have agreed to invest $8.27 billion in Vietnam, which is set to open up its economy after it joins the World Trade Organization next month. That's up 47.4 percent from the same period last year, thanks to major projects like Intel's $1 billion chip plant in Ho Chi Minh City.</p>

PLANTATION, Fla., July 26 (UPI) -- A Plantation, Fla., Police Academy DUI instructor was charged with drunken driving after she was clocked doing 90 mph and found to be lacking any pants. The Plantation Police Internal Affairs report released this week says Officer Laurie Primeau had an open bottle of Southern Comfort in her car when she was arrested on Dec. 9. But her lawyer said the booze was merely a training device for cadets, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.

<p>WASHINGTON (BNW) — If there were ever a reason for Blacks to leave the Democratic Party, the time is now, because House Democrats voted Thursday evening to suspend a Black member, Rep. William Jefferson from his seat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Unshaken by both his own argument that the sanction was unfair and complaints from other Black lawmakers that he was the victim of a double standard, white Democrats kicked that Nigger in the ass.</p>

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State Representative Cedric Richmond told his colleagues in the Louisiana House today that black voters who vote for Democrats need to reconsider their loyalties, in light of that party's treatment of Congressman William Jefferson. Today, the U.S. House stripped Jefferson of his assignment on the powerful Ways and Means Committee at the recommendation of House Democrats. Richmond, a Democrat from New Orleans, condemned the national party for removing Jefferson from the committee because of a growing bribery scandal that surrounds him. Jefferson has not been charged with a crime but is under federal investigation. Richmond,...

April 29, 2006 Forests in Southeast Asia Fall to Prosperity's Ax By JANE PERLEZ LONG ALONGO, Indonesia — For as long as anyone can remember, Anyie Apoui and his people have lived among the majestic trees and churning rivers in an untouched corner of Borneo, catching fish and wild game, cultivating rice and making do without roads. But all that is about to change. The Indonesian government has signed a deal with China that will level much of the remaining tropical forests in an area so vital it is sometimes called the lungs of Southeast Asia. For China, the deal...

Here in New York, the Rev. Al Sharpton tends to be seen as a perennial political outsider and gadfly - his detractors inevitably dismiss him as a publicity-seeking hustler - but that cynical, out-of-date view ignores the impressive political network Sharpton has diligently been building from coast to coast. In a dozen or so black communities where elders tend to monopolize leadership of the churches, schools, civic groups, political clubs and other key institutions, Sharpton has been busy grooming young, ambitious candidates for office. By playing the role of mentor, promoter and fund-raiser, Sharpton does what many shortsighted black politicians...

"HAIR" THEY GO AGAINCYNTHIA McKINNEY PLAYS THE RACE CARD THE VOUCHER RANT OF MISS HILLARY:WHY THE WHIFF OF RACISM EXCEEDS THE WORDS HILLARY CLINTON, DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE WHAT IS HER VOUCHER RANT REALLY ABOUT ANYWAY? GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder) MISS HILLARY, 'PLANTATION QUEEN,' CANNOT DIS KING WITH IMPUNITY WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT MUST MOBILIZE AGAINST HILLARY:CLINTON CONFLATES EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND ISLAMO-FASCIST TERRORISTS HILLARY DOES JESUS"FURTHER EVIDENCE WHY SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST DESPICABLE POLITICIANS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW" HILLARY VOTE FRAUDmissus clinton uses Jesus SEX, LIES AND SOCK PUPPETS:HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD...

Why Does Hillary Clinton Fear Condoleezza Rice? by Walter Williams (March 8, 2006) Capitalism Magazine Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton used Rev. Al Sharpton's Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration to, as Professor Shelby Steele explains, "whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance." In response to a question from the audience: "I need you to tell us what distinguishes Democrats from Republicans right now," Sen. Clinton answered, "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about . ....

WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT MUST MOBILIZE AGAINST HILLARY:CLINTON CONFLATES EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND ISLAMO-FASCIST TERRORISTS by Mia T, 03.16.06 It is wrong to demonize and cartoonize one another and ignore evidence and to make false charges and to bear false witness. Sometimes I think our friends on the other side have become the people of the Nine Commandments. It is wrong to bear false witness because we all see through [the] glass darkly.... We have a curious situation in American where the religious right has tried to turn all who disagree with them into two-dimensional cartoons. I read a very...

RICHMOND — House Republicans today rejected Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s nomination of former labor leader Daniel LeBlanc to be secretary of the commonwealth, marking the first time legislators have denied a governor an appointee to his cabinet.LeBlanc, was defeated on a party-line 55-42 vote with Republicans saying the former president of the state AFL-CIO could not be trusted to protect Virginia’s right-to-work law which bars compulsory union membership.Kaine, a Democrat, was visibly angered during a meeting with reporters. He noted that none of the House’s complaints against LeBlanc were shared by the Senate, which confirmed the nominee by a 40-0...

New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas said, “The welfare system was the greatest form of slavery post the plantation system.” *AGREE *DISAGREE

This year, Democrats may lose their iron grip on the black vote. About 90 percent of black Americans vote Democrat, rain or shine. But a growing sense that Democrats take them for granted _ plus several attractive, high-level black Republican candidates who will fight for these votes _ could make November 2006 and 2008 fascinating. For starters, President Bush's black support grew from 9 percent in 2000 to 11 percent in 2004. That is no landslide, but it's a 22 percent improvement in black support despite Bush's being vilified by the media and Democrats for four long years. In Ohio,...

Ann Coulter...was definitely Friday’s biggest draw at CPAC 2006. From the get-go the conservative columnist had the crowd cheering and was frequently interrupted by applause. Many of Coulter’s talking points came from recent news events -- such as “the great Danish cartoon caper” and President Bush’s Supreme Court nominees. “Muslims are the only group who kill because people call them violent,” she said of Islam’s rage over the printing of Muhammad cartoons. Speaking about the nation's highest court, Coulter not only expressed elation at Justice Samuel Alito’s confirmation, she also shared her feelings on Chief Justice John Roberts ... She...

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams told The Hill that he wrote Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) letters of apology last week after he confused the two men at the State of the Union address. During NBC’s broadcast, Williams noticed Obama on the House floor and identified him to the viewing audience. Unfortunately, it was actually Ford. “I made a silly and honest mistake, and knowing both men I knew instantly what I had done,” a contrite and gracious Williams said in a phone call. “I obviously should have corrected it, but the proper time...

Ex-president Bill Clinton defended his wife Hillary on Friday for claiming last month that the GOP-led Congress was being run like a "plantation," adding that he thought House Democrats were being treated like "sharecroppers." Asked if he agreed with Mrs. Clinton's comment, the ex-president told WCBS Radio's Peter Maer: "Oh, absolutely I do. And it had no racial overtones." "It was more about the arbitrary and complete exercise of power and control," he contended." Clinton cited an unnamed farmer-turned-congressman from East Arkansas who told him he agreed with Hillary as well. "I wouldn't say we were slaves," Clinton quoted the...

Charles Darwin's former home in Bromley, south-east London, has been nominated as a World Heritage Site. Down House at Downe was Darwin's home for 40 years and where he developed his revolutionary theory of evolution. The property also includes the scientist's experimental garden where he studied plants and animals. Announcing the UK's 2006 nomination, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell said: "Darwin was one of the greatest scientists of the modern age." 'Scientific discovery' Darwin moved to Down House in 1842 following his epic round-the-world trip in the 1830s, which included a visit to the Galapagos islands. Darwin completed some of his...

As a Black Conservative author of “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation” I understand why Hillary Clinton used the plantation in a recent speech. Hillary Clinton’s use of the word “plantation” was appropriate for the democratic Senator from New York. As a member of the Democratic Party, Clinton is an expert on plantation management and the plantation Mentality. It was the Democratic Party that fought to keep slavery legal, supported the south during the civil war and supported the formation of the Klan. It was the Democratic Party that passed the Fugitive Slave Act, Black Codes, Missouri Compromise and the...

ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARYTHE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT by Chris Matthews, Anne Kornblut + Dana Milbank (with annotations by Mia T), 01.26.06 EXCERPT: This is HARDBALL on MSNBC. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [NOTE: My comments in blue.] MATTHEWS:  We're back with Anne Kornblut of "The New York Times" and Dana Milbank of "The Washington Post."  Let's talk about Gotham's candidates for president. First, Rudolph Giuliani, the pro-choice, pro-gay rights, former mayor spent today, or the day in Orlando speaking to a conference of Evangelicals.  Dana, he's up to it, isn't he?  This is below the radar.  This...

This year's Martin Luther King Day celebration was a wild and woolly collection of left-wing blather. In Washington, showing remarkable feats of amnesia that he was ever vice president in a corrupt administration, Al Gore gave a speech claiming President Bush was a law-breaking president and his illegal actions a threat to the survival of our democracy, an extraordinary accusation for even this man to make, given the same policies were executed by the Clinton-Gore administration. In New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin announced that God wanted New Orleans to be a "chocolate" city again. When challenged that this might make...

Reeling from negative reactions to her characterization of congress as akin to a "plantation," Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) defended herself by listing the cruelties and humiliations heaped upon her by the senate's Republican overlords. "Republican taskmasters forced us to spend long hours working on legislation," said Clinton. "They insisted that we attend lengthy committee meetings to hear boring testimony on complicated issues. They demanded that we cast votes on judicial nominees. They contradicted our arguments. We have been treated like virtual slaves." Senate majority leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) objected to being portrayed as "some kind of Simon Legree" (the villain...

Some media appear to be agitated by the remarks made by Sen. Hillary Clinton, which reference the Republican leadership as being 'like a plantation'. Such surrounds their perception of this statement as being offensive to African Americans. Which of the following most accurately reflects your feeling about this so called controversy: I am outraged by her remarks. Hillary 'gets it' the others are still lost 'Plantation' as a description of the Republican leadership is a severe understatement

SEE VIDEO: "HILLARY IS 'DOOMED'" (more 'plantation' fallout)   thanx to John Lenin for video MISS HILLARY, 'PLANTATION QUEEN,' CANNOT DIS KING WITH IMPUNITY by Mia T, 01.24.06 (scoop by John Lenin, video capture by adamsjas ) "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."  Dr. Martin Luther King, JrTHE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?clinton legacy of lynching update by Mia T, 7.23.05 Ironically, the logic of this pronouncement by Martin Luther King would, in short order, be refuted by the reality of...

MIDI - ANTICIPATION I have been scheming hard to take the White House back It is much tougher than it ought to be The vast right wing is doing all it can preventing it So if they want to play hardball, they'll get that from me It's my plantation...it's my plantation and you blacks cannot leave I'm warning you, do not let down Hillary Because you need me...you cannot turn to the Republicans They do not like you, that should be quite clear 'Cause you're helpless...who else will be there taking care of you Listen carefully, I'll tell you...

MISS HILLARY, 'PLANTATION QUEEN,' CANNOT DIS KING WITH IMPUNITY by Mia T, 01.24.06 (scoop by John Lenin, video capture by adamsjas ) "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."  Dr. Martin Luther King, JrTHE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?clinton legacy of lynching update by Mia T, 7.23.05 GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)by Mia T, 01.18.06     Transcript of Fox News' Cavuto on Business show with Meredith Whitney and Herman Cain, January 21, 2006 NEIL CAVUTO (host): All right, we're...

President Bush (left) shown here with attorney William J. Clinton of Arkansas who was indicted of perjury and accused of rape before briefly losing his license to practise law. Democrats are pressing Bush to reveal the extent of his relationship with the disgraced former Governor. Republicans caution against guilt by association.

Two elected Democrats took the occasion of Martin Luther King’s birthday celebration on 16 January to give race-baiting speeches before black audiences. One did it because he is stupid. The other did it because she thinks blacks are stupid. Both dishonored the memory of King, who had a dream that “all God’s children would be judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.” In New Orleans, outside City Hall, Mayor Ray Nagin called for “black people … to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild New Orleans — the one that should be...

MIDI - DOWN BY THE STATION It's her plantation, black folks do not wander She loves dark-skinned people, not the evil GOP She will pander to you, then she's gonna screw you That's the way with Hillary It's her plantation, listen to her screaming On her broom she's riding, it's a funny sight to see She will pander to you, then she's gonna screw you That's the way with Hillary

MIDI - RUNAWAY TRAIN The right wing thinks that they own the plantation You poor black folks, I'm your salvation What I'm talking about, I think you know it And if you love me, it's really time to show it All your progress has come from me and my friends What we've done is easy to defend You're so helpless, and brain cells you are lacking If you want my help, then I expect your backing Every time I see you using crack or downing 40-ouncers You'll need me or you'll be screwed by America When the day comes...

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by Mark Finkelstein January 21, 2006 - 19:12 Q: How does a lefty media maven know when he's gone off the deep end? A. When even fellow liberal Jane Hall laughs at him. Neal Gabler should take the lesson to heart, because that's exactly what happened to him on tonight's Fox Media Watch. The subject matter was the media's handling of Hillary Clinton's Plantation Declaration. Jane began with a surprisingly candid assessment of Clinton and her presidential ambitions: "She's clearly running for President and I think the media should quit going around that fact. She's tiptoeing around that fact. The...

Shooting yourself in the foot By David Limbaugh Unlike our president, who spent Martin Luther King Day paying respectful tribute to MLK and Abraham Lincoln, Democratic Party notables, Hillary Clinton and Albert Gore, used the holiday as another opportunity to character-assassinate President George W. Bush. Just when we were beginning to think Hillary Clinton had found her voice - albeit a decidedly phony one - as a mature, seasoned politician poised for a presidential run, she reverts to those cacophonic utterances that find little resonance beyond her embittered but indispensable base. If one could momentarily suspend his powers of discernment,...

When Hillary Clinton used her Martin Luther King Day tribute to accuse Republicans of running Washington like an Old South "plantation" - she knew whereof she spoke. In fact, when Hillary and Bill ran Arkansas, Dr. King didn't even have a holiday in his honor - at least not all to himself. Instead, Arkansans celebrated a combination holiday that honored both King and Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general who fought to allow the South to keep blacks enslaved. And that wasn't the only example of the kind of plantation politics that characterized the Clintons' rule in Arkansas. According to...

"I have in the past certainly, you know maybe, called somebody a name. But I have never used an ethnic, racial, anti-Semitic, bigoted, discriminatory, prejudiced, accusation against anybody. I've never done it. I've never thought it." That is what Hillary Clinton said in July 2000, after the release of the book "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" Among the details it contained was Hillary calling the campaign manager of Bill's 1974 Congressional Race a "f--king Jew Bastard." Hillary, who was running for the Senate at the time, also said about the book, "I...

Washington—In a stunning, yet bold maneuver, Vice President Dick Cheney has established new rules, implementing a plantation-style run U.S. Senate. The move comes in response to Senator Hillary Clinton’s “plantation” remark on Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday celebration. The comments came in a speech in New York to a Harlem church when Senator Clinton stated, “When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run it has been run like a plantation and you know what I am talking about.” Clinton continued her belligerent comments, saying, “We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have...

In honor of Hillary Clinton's "Let my people go!" rant at a MLK event in New York, I believe that President Bush issue the following: The Emancipation Proclamation- For House Democrats November 7, 2006 By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. Whereas, on the nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six, all persons...

GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder) by Mia T, 01.18.06           "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-dropping.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on...

Hillary Clinton and the ‘White’ HouseBy Lee Harris | 19 Jan 2006 Hillary Rodham Clinton recently said that the White House under George Bush has become “a plantation,” and most of the black Democrats in Congress have endorsed her remark. Laura Bush, the presumptive mistress of the plantation, has called Senator Clinton’s remark “ridiculous, just ridiculous.” Now what put it into Senator Clinton’s mind to call the White House, where she herself was once the First Lady, a plantation? What is the basis of her analogy? Southern plantations were known for two things, one good and one bad. Let’s look...