Sometime around 1850 my great-grandmother’s second cousin, James Lord Pierpont, wrote a song that for more than a century has been sung the most often in celebration of Christmas, especially by children. The song is “Jingle Bells.” A quick...
22 December 2005
For Minorities, Progress on Wall Street is too Slow
Katrina, Pension Funds, Access to Capital Top the Agenda
NEW YORK CITY – (Dec. 14, 2005) – Just a few years ago, history was made on Wall Street when the State...
Katrina, Pension Funds, Access to Capital Top the Agenda
NEW YORK CITY – (Dec. 14, 2005) – Just a few years ago, history was made on Wall Street when the State...
22 December 2005
Back in December of 1998, a highly partisan U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton, making him just the second U.S. president in history to be impeached since Andrew Johnson in 1868 following the Civil War....
22 December 2005
The International Day of Action to Stop Global Warming on December 3 was a very important day. Approximately 100,000 people took action worldwide, with the major actions taking place in Montreal and London. At least 30,000 marched in...
22 December 2005
For weeks, President Bush declared he would not accept a short-term extension of the Patriot Act. Then in a bi-partisan manner last week, prompted by the startling front-page news that Bush repeatedly authorized illegal NSA spying on...
22 December 2005
Members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, led by ranking minority member John Conyers (D-MI) have now released their full 273-page report, The Constitution in Crisis, said to be more than six months in the making, on the...
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