Jesse Jackson from CaglePost.com Columns by Jesse Jackson from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Jesse+Jackson Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ New Haven Shows We Haven't Learned New Haven, Conn., is a city in which African-Americans and Hispanics account for nearly 60 percent of the population; yet, by order of the U.S. Supreme Court, the city must be served --"as it was in the days of undisguised discrimination -- by a fire... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2248e37f-3b9a-426c-8a66-ed11c00a798d.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Health Care: The Democrats Standing In The Way We are down to the last rounds of the health care debate. The ideas are on the table. The estimated costs are published. The insurance industry lobby is up in arms. The White House and congressional leaders are starting to push. Now it is a question ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/acd79547-81a5-4fbd-a3a6-378909757780.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Guns and Hate On Wednesday in Washington, D.C., James W. von Brunn, 88-year-old anti-Semite and white supremacist, took a .22-caliber rifle into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and shot and killed security guard Stephen T. Johns. Earlier this month, Dr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/33eb83ea-35be-49c6-828d-5dc819c8854a.html Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Country That Builds The Future "The fight for American manufacturing is the fight for America's future," declared President Barack Obama, as he pledged billions to help save and reorganize Chrysler and General Motors. Yet, the president also says that he does not want to manage th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bddaedac-dd7d-4ddf-a87d-5bef0b2104a2.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Slurring Sotomayor Who would have expected the ugly reaction to the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court? Newt Gingrich, de facto leader of the Republican Party, calls this first Hispanic nominee to the court a racist, urging her nomination be withd... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d8c717b3-6d9a-427f-8cb5-9ad901123d48.html Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Shooting Up Yosemite Signs of "recovery" are in the air, the business pages say. We can see "green shoots" in the economy, says Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The banks are "starting to heal," says Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, after giving them all a pass on ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/003ef412-65bb-43c3-bc9a-551b9819ad33.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT An America That Makes Things Again General Motors is shutting 1,100 dealerships by 2010. Chrysler is shutting another 800 by June. The economy continues to hemorrhage manufacturing jobs. We've lost over 5 million jobs since the Great Recession began. GM is considering shutting down mo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/505b24fa-5618-40af-82b8-7708083b2148.html Mon, 18 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Rebuild In America An estimated 7.2 million U.S. jobs are dependent on auto manufacturing. These aren't simply jobs in Detroit. Shut down auto production and you don't just lose autoworkers, as Leo W. Gerard, United Steelworkers international president says, you "drive... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8ff4af57-e1dc-4ae6-af0b-466d05c34bbf.html Mon, 11 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Suite Heat And Street Heat The banks . . . are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place." So Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill) expressed his disgust as the Senate gutted his effort to give bankruptcy courts the power to modify mor... http://www.caglepost.com/article/52630bff-4730-4ddf-b233-3c6131bfb732.html Mon, 04 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Fast Out of The Blocks The only real grade Barack Obama can be given for his first 100 days is an "incomplete." He has been remarkably fast out of the blocks -- arguably getting off to the best start of any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt and the "original" 100 days ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4ef83c2a-2f4a-45b0-b806-e9c1da0bd3df.html Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Common Cents On Health Care Will Congress step up to health-care reform? This week, an obscure conference committee meeting between a handful of members from the House and Senate may well decide the fate of Obama's health care reform. It's a decision that directly involves over... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a5517c15-b9b3-4a66-94d8-a505266e6ddb.html Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Shackled By Debt Samantha is a remarkably responsible young woman. She studied hard and gained admission to a good college. She earned her degree, graduated and got a good job in communications. Unlike many in her generation, she refused to take on any credit-card de... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ae233e0f-15a7-4766-925b-e2cff4c4243d.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Robbed With A Fountan Pen "As through this world I've wandered, I've seen lots of funny men; some will rob you with a six-gun. And some with a fountain pen." Alan Collinge, and thousands of other college graduates have discovered just how true these fabled words of Woody Guth... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a7971b3a-71c8-4e7b-8f3c-5b265c08baeb.html Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Still Hooked "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as she flew to Mexico on an official visit last week. "Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/381ea9ca-7175-4f21-b8f1-9c086236e5e5.html Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Dream Busters As billions are poured out of the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and elsewhere to bail out Wall Street, students are wondering why they have been left to the mercy of banks that are profiting big-time by busting the dreams of youn... http://www.caglepost.com/article/68de81ba-9bda-480f-b052-80bd13d0b565.html Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Rather Than Wall Street, Why Not Bail Out A Generation? AIG, the world's largest insurance company, of which we -- U.S. taxpayers -- now own 80 percent, has consumed nearly 170 billion of our dollars to bail out bad bets it made selling credit insurance to banks and investment houses. This weekend, we lea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bd3e146b-8c7e-4b89-bb64-9d8cfab8a16a.html Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Preserving The American Dream The economic news gets ever more frightening. America's pride -- the broad middle class -- now seems as endangered as its auto companies. That is why the Employee Free Choice Act is so vital. Slated to be introduced in both houses of Congress today, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/df62c96d-0652-416b-b67e-c5fb48290eef.html Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Power Of People Snow isn't the only storm that is raging across the country. People watch as the very Wall Street speculators whose excesses helped cause the economic collapse get billions in help from taxpayers. Now, with an estimated 2.9 million households facing ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e189c6ac-92d2-4538-9a7e-7fc187a8a2fc.html Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Expansion Or Contraction We are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and Republicans have chosen political posturing over cooperation. First, Republicans voted lockstep against the measure in the House, and only three strayed in the Senate. Now Republ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4bd88766-f720-40b8-bfa3-90352270074d.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Know-Nothings Today President Obama will sign the historic recovery bill -- pumping $787 billion into the economy in an effort to create 3.5 million jobs. With unemployment spreading, home foreclosures rising and poverty growing, it will come none too soon. Meanwh... http://www.caglepost.com/article/99205554-d9bf-42da-a1f2-746c2115e05b.html Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Warning: Swamp Fogs Vision Washington is built on top of swamps, and its politics are often simply an accurate reflection of its environment. Now, with the country in crisis, the fog coming off the political swamp is clearly muddling the sight, if not the sense, of legislators... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7a4f25be-f947-4b9f-b1c2-d147067146d8.html Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Partisan Posturing Some 2.8 million jobs lost last year. Millions of families facing foreclosure and the loss of their homes. Food kitchens swamped. And it is going to get worse. We need fast and bold action to stanch the bleeding and limit the damage. We need a large ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/09f03529-7567-4d08-8ab7-b0149983b300.html Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Water The Roots The debate on the recovery has begun in earnest. The $825 billion plan introduced in the House is a good beginning. It makes a down payment on investments vital to our future -- in new energy, health care efficiency, education. It provides assistance... http://www.caglepost.com/article/16f55942-96c0-4108-a29c-5c9aab514e14.html Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Dr. King's Dream The tears flow down the faces of people of good will across the country today, as Barack Obama is sworn in as president of the United States. The dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrated on Monday, will have come closer to fulfil... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0946fb5f-4844-4ba5-8e82-e57288a0cc17.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Just Economics Next Monday, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday and then, on Tuesday, Barack Obama will be sworn in as president of the United States. His first -- and overwhelming -- task will be to pass a bold economic recovery plan that can turn this ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/14430ed9-0ca3-4746-aa60-e5929d3b0870.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Fierce Urgency Of Now This economy is in free fall. Workers are losing jobs. Families are losing homes. Manufacturing is plummeting; exports declining; housing collapsing; construction on hold; state and local budgets slashed; retail stores and malls going belly up. Unemp... http://www.caglepost.com/article/58731032-a6cf-400e-941a-365cad671538.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Real Story Unemployment is rising. Many families are tightening their belts. This year, we're told, may be one of the worst Christmas holidays for retail stores in decades. But economic distress doesn't put Christmas under wraps. It only highlights the real sto... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ca86372d-9c9f-493e-9c00-1d452bddbb5c.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT What Kind Of America? When Republicans blocked the bridge loan sought by the auto companies last week, they opened up basic questions about what kind of America will emerge from the current crisis. The severity of the downturn means that fundamental issues are at stake. H... http://www.caglepost.com/article/52feab16-3c5e-4f02-8341-dfb2b1606768.html Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Congress On The Auto Companies: A Class Act General Motors and Chrysler verge on bankruptcy. Literally millions of jobs across America -- auto workers, parts makers, dealers, suppliers -- are at risk. Bankruptcy would be a body blow to an economy that is already in trouble. Yet, the Congress a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b37317cc-1e88-4338-b6da-53c4d3800429.html Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Least Of These We got trouble. Unemployment is rising. Factories are closing. Construction is shutting down. Stores are laying off folks at the height of the holiday season. Soup kitchens are overwhelmed. No one doubts now that the U.S. is headed into a severe down... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9bfb3e6c-4b8f-4aed-aac4-f7f41d7c178f.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Crunch Time In tight basketball games, there comes a point toward the end of the game when all is decided. A decisive play, confidence soars on one team and wanes on the other, momentum swings. In crunch time, stars show their stuff. They step up when others are... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e7016140-ce87-4296-9b4b-135c8aa4eaeb.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT A Bridge We Need This week, the Senate will debate whether its time to rescue Main Street as well as Wall Street. At issue are the auto companies -- GM, Ford and Chrysler. The Senate will decide whether to tell the Treasury Department to use part of the $700 billion ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/30039e94-95f3-4896-93f6-f984ef5dcb4e.html Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Make No Small Plans The beltway poison began almost before the dancing stopped early Wednesday morning. Obama has to be "cautious." This is still a "center-right nation," wrote Bill Kristol. "The country remains very evenly divided," says Clinton advisor Harold Ickes. O... http://www.caglepost.com/article/948bdbbe-0278-402a-8619-5e2f6bd97729.html Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The First And The Last 100 Days The air crackles with anticipation. Fingers are crossed. It gets hard to breathe. Hope, for so long locked in a closet, begins pounding on the door. And throwing fortune to the wind, many are already talking about Barack Obama's first 100 days. Will ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/007199a7-2c3b-45fd-bd1a-f89f3de0c4e1.html Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Vital Signs: Obama's Powerful Assets Who can do this job? As Barack Obama verges on an historic victory next week, it is clear he will inherit the desert: Costly and endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A global economic downturn. A financial system choking on its own excesses. Broken ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7521130f-0862-41b1-8742-030523cae0db.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Sea Change Challenge Campaigns are, as everyone knows, not the time for a high blown policy debate. The increasingly dishonorable McCain campaign is classic in this regard -- with much of its advertising devoted to diversionary attacks on Barack Obama, many featuring the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a00bec29-5d0b-4d77-a131-36bfae5a02d5.html Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Healthy Difference John McCain will tax your health care. Sounds perverse, doesn't it? He's calling for treating employer-based health care as part of income -- a tax increase of $2,000 to $3,000 per family. Of course, that's not the end of the story. McCain will give ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f3dc64e4-6ba1-4c17-80dd-883408f54900.html Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Grip Of Bad Ideas The largest savings and loan and the largest insurance company go belly up. One trillion dollars lost in the stock market in one day. Two trillion dollars lost in housing values. Congress hands the treasury secretary $700 billion in a panicked vote a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/99a43244-370c-4770-969c-625b113b32d3.html Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Roosevelt Moment AIG, Lehman, Washington Mutual, Bear Sterns, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia -- it keeps getting worse. Stocks tank as Congress struggles to pass the $700 billion bailout for Wall Street. But whether the bill passes or not, this will get worse. The decline i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c77b335c-2077-470a-9842-56c3142b5ed0.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bail Out On This Bailout Are we witnessing the death of the republic? Sound hysterical? Look at how Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson proposes to govern the $700 billion -- some $2,000 for every man, woman and child in America -- that he wants to bail out the banks. He wants t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/737262a6-07b5-4404-8d42-b3e3f993b215.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Question About Our Future Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac -- the financial crisis keeps deepening. The stock market is taking a hit. But keep your eye on the real economy -- where people go to work and earn their money. We've had nine straight months of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/af28e1f0-51d1-4641-bc55-747704ab462b.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Reflections On Sept. 11 Sept. 11, seven years later. It is an anniversary that we should mark with prayer, with lowered voices and sober reflection. Sept. 11 was the most serious attack on America since Pearl Harbor. We must not forget. But bluster is not remembrance. We mu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d92f8ad8-38f6-40b4-8517-b7e8269d7902.html Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Building The Bridge The choice now is clear. With his pick of Joe Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama sharpened the contrast with the policies of George Bush and John McCain that leave you on your own. With his choice of Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain bowed to the wi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ea4ec32d-2ad0-4afe-a926-23d074065739.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Obama Moment On Thursday night, 45 years to the day from the March on Washington, Barack Obama will receive the Democratic nomination for the presidency. "Judge me by the content of my character, not the color of my skin," say T-shirts on sale on the streets arou... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dc1bf60a-4a86-4080-9eaf-1f03cc03da9b.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Faith And Our Future At his Saddleback Church presidential forum, Pastor Rick Warren posed the same questions -- grounded in his evangelical faith -- to each candidate. Barack Obama was thoughtful; John McCain punchy. Not surprisingly, the pundits mostly gave the "edge" ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0560f365-aaa7-4070-ad43-658be4f80f2d.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bearing Witness The Russian Bear has shown its teeth. The armed invasion of Georgia is a direct challenge to international law and the international community. The invasion came in response to a provocative Georgian attempt to retake militarily the breakaway provinc... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3a7729f4-6dfe-4a46-9ab8-25e944b434fc.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Where Is The Outrage? The collapse of housing prices continues. Defaults on mortgages continue to rise; foreclosures are now occurring at the rate of 3 million homes a year and rising. Housing experts suggest that U.S. homes still face another 15 percent in price declines... http://www.caglepost.com/article/600d6b27-ed1c-4cd5-ab5d-46edcbd9418a.html Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT A New Tide The stunning reception Barack Obama received from 200,000 Berliners attests not simply to his remarkable appeal, but to the enduring hope that peoples across the world have for America. The Bush administration has gone out of its way to alienate the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2a49a1fa-e3f8-4aed-8d75-0ffe4b5ef19c.html Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Jon Benet Ramsey And American Justice On July 9, the long agony of Jon Benet Ramsey's family was brought at least to partial close. On the basis of new forms of DNA testing, the Boulder, Colo., district attorney wrote a letter of apology to her father, John Ramsey, because the results cl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/efd9bece-c8ba-4228-b78f-911abd709bbe.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Dreams Fulfilled And Unfinished Business Not long ago, African-Americans could not join country clubs. Yet the Williams sisters dominated Wimbledon, while Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open on one leg. We used to stand in the balconies; now Will Smith and Denzel Washington set Hollywood's standa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d9a6a27d-bf55-4c1c-8506-23309fd07a2f.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Meaning of This Years's July 4th When Thomas Jefferson finished his draft of the Declaration of Independence 232 years ago, and his fellow revolutionaries risked their lives to add their names to his eloquent document, they took a giant step toward freedom. The United States of Amer... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c804a62b-3eca-4b20-a69c-8213ada966bd.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Deadly Supreme Court More people will die from gunshots due to the decision of five right-wing Supreme Court Justices to overturn the District of Columbia law banning handguns in the District. To reach their ruling, the gang of five had to distort the clear meaning of th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/05e691db-9086-4eff-9180-e7c719b6bd5b.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Private Wealth And Public Squalor Floods ravage the Midwest, as the hodgepodge system of levees is overwhelmed. Twenty-four are dead; damage is estimated at $15 billion and counting. The cost to food supplies has yet to be felt. A bridge falls in Minneapolis, killing 13 people. A 100... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0aa8046a-75d4-41e5-96e9-123f21447562.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Housing Mess We witness a staggering failure of leadership. Housing foreclosures in May were up 48 percent over last year, and rising. One in six homes is worth less than its mortgage. Homeowners have lost, according to the Federal Reserve, nearly $1 trillion in ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/985c9bf2-26cc-4c0a-a876-68bc77566444.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Challenge With Hillary Clinton's stirring endorsement, Barack Obama now turns to the general election. John McCain is already taking potshots at Obama. The pundits are speculating on what states are in play, what constituencies are in reach. This stunning triu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5fb9b496-213f-45c1-bc6e-5fca3df22c76.html Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Define The Stakes The presidential prelims are essentially over. Now as the general election begins, it is time to define the stakes. What is this election about? We know what John McCain thinks. He thinks it is about "winning" in Iraq, which he describes as sustainin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/00d64de6-ec55-4f0e-aec4-290770a09eb6.html Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Have They No Shame? Republicans apparently have decided that Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, is fair game for their slurs. They've turned a quote from a speech where she expresses her pride in America for the outpouring of youthful participation and idealism that has be... http://www.caglepost.com/article/90b56123-26da-4893-a5d8-a2d5b6f5c5d0.html Mon, 26 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Sacrifice And Hope On Aug. 28, 45 years from the day of Dr. King's historic speech at the March on Washington, Barack Obama will receive the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in Denver. Barack Obama's impending victory reflects not simply the triumph of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d4a3b627-6582-4a42-974f-09c5f5355b03.html Mon, 19 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT 'The Change You Deserve' News travels fast in Washington, but understanding takes a lot longer. It isn't news that Americans are unhappy with the way things are going. George Bush suffers record low approval. Eighty percent of the country thinks the economy is bad and gettin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0c16cc6a-062d-4ff8-a809-7ff73174f4fb.html Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT America: A Moral Leader? The world food crisis - the "silent tsunami" - now threatens some 100 million people across the world. Food riots in Haiti, Egypt and Ethiopia have brought it to international attention. World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick says that 33 countries ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cfe02491-acb3-42e2-a614-97d25147d95a.html Mon, 05 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The View From Haiti It's the middle of the day; the sun is up, the heat rising in Port au Prince, the capitol of Haiti. Thousands of young men and women fill the streets, lining up, moving from place to place. They are looking for work, any work, work that might pay the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4a13e609-f43a-42f3-aae5-0869ad30d3c7.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Silent Assassin Where are the leaders? The news media is AWOL, with ABC staging the most insulting presidential debate in memory. The administration is fixated on peddling Iraq's calamities as progress. The presidential candidates, intent on throwing the "kitchen si... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c2d5c03a-f0cf-45f3-9355-a4fd308a31a7.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Least of These "A hungry man is an angry man," goes the old adage. And for months Haitians have compared their hunger to "eating Clorox (bleach)" because of the burning of their stomachs. Now riots have broken out and five people have died in a week of protests. A ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0af732bb-3ab3-4a70-87c9-aae62b61e744.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Front Side of Life Even as we marked the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination and the remarkable way he and his movement transformed America, we learned also of the work still undone. As the memorial march in Memphis took place, papers published ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/649c916f-fc8e-4e61-949e-55ab6e4a2fc7.html Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Dr. King's Trumpet April 4 marks the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. Forty years later, his dream has been remembered and commemorated. But in many ways, his mission has not yet been realized. Dr. King always saw the struggle for civil right... http://www.caglepost.com/article/640790f0-feab-45d9-8cc7-ec506f8d29f0.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT 4,000 And $3 Trillion The United States military announced Monday that the death toll of U.S. soldiers in the five-year Iraq conflict reached 4,000, after four soldiers were killed in a Baghdad bombing. According to icasualties.org, the conflict has also wounded more than... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1c13ca74-7ca6-4237-a3e7-df773e96d0a1.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bear Markets The economy is sinking. Two million homeowners are in or headed to foreclosure. One in 10 homes is "underwater," worth less than its mortgage. Gas and food prices are soaring. Jobs are down; incomes have never recovered. The subprime mortgage collaps... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2f35f727-9a25-40a6-90db-1944ff01ff16.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Avoiding The Train Wreck The Democratic primaries continue to generate excitement - record turnout, record energy. Young people, Latinos, African-Americans and women are voting in Democratic primaries in record numbers. Change is in the air. But the face-off between Sens. Ob... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1bb7a500-8f6c-4004-98d9-9037a3c2e6bd.html Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT We've Come A Long Way The competition between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is fierce: rallies, ads, speeches, phone calls, get-out-the-vote operations. Four states hang in the balance on Tuesday - Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont - and perhaps the Democratic pres... http://www.caglepost.com/article/05b39e7b-5a23-420d-84c2-14a776fc716e.html Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT Ohio: The Real Deal Tonight in Cleveland, the Democratic candidates meet in what may be their final debate. With Hillary lagging in delegates, Obama on a roll, and the candidates sniping at each other, the MSNBC moderators will be tempted to play "gotcha" - trying to ca... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0628a001-e231-47f2-8855-714c6bddbcd9.html Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT America's Choice It's only February and it already seems like this election campaign has been with us forever. The Republican field of white men in dark suits has been winnowed to one: Sen. John McCain. On the Democratic side, two remain standing, with a fierce battl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d5503832-de55-45b5-9ee0-2e04ee46f9ee.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Divide Us Not "Hillary wins Hispanics; Obama wins blacks." Increasingly pundits suggest this voting pattern reflects not these candidates, but more permanent divisions. Hispanics and blacks are rivals, we're told, reluctant to vote for one another. This statement,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8151a9c7-494d-471c-ae6c-94c33a9803ea.html Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT There Is Another Way Across the country, voters are as interested in Super Tuesday's voting as they were in the Super Bowl. Change is in the air. Young people are in motion. Something is happening out there. What accounts for this excitement? Surely, Sen. 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Orrin Hatch of Utah and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, voted to expand the children's... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fd25a3ae-64ce-443c-9749-d128bac815bf.html Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Reckoning ""We are the Jena Six,"" read a demonstrator's T-shirt, as tens of thousands gathered in Jena, La., to protest the treatment of the Jena Six. Last week, Mychal Bell was released from prison after serving nine months for participating in a schoolyard ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e026829e-5224-4275-8304-54366a894a8c.html Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT Homeland Security Last week, thousands of peaceful demonstrators came from across the country to protest the criminal injustice done to young African-American men in Jena, La. The protestors spanned the generations and the country's geography. They came because of the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c4105254-3705-4a26-907a-0c843ae9f12e.html Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT Jena Justice They cut down the ""white tree"" at Jena High School last month -about a year too late. On Thursday, a mass civil rights march will take place in Jena, La., demanding justice for the Jena Six - the six young men unjustly charged with felonies, jailed... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b6d998f8-aa19-4233-b991-884448c68a63.html Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Box Iraq . . . 24/7. That's what will dominate the news over the next two or three weeks, as Congress and president struggle over what to do with the disastrous occupation of Iraq. Democratic voters will be looking to see if the Democratic leaders in Con... http://www.caglepost.com/article/110ac204-2949-4604-8c06-9657f4cffc70.html Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Choice This nation faces a clear choice this September. 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As our infrastructure literally crumbles bene... http://www.caglepost.com/article/aa05a259-fa38-4f21-bfef-c2381562e6d4.html Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT In Debt We Trust As we head into August, college students and their parents scramble to put together the rising tab for another year of education. Most will take on more debt - loans carried by students and by parents. With college tuitions soaring over the last seve... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4a319d76-56da-4644-8ac0-6966ed860299.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Other Lost War If you think the war on terrorism is going badly - and our intelligence agencies warn that al-Qaida has reconstituted itself - take a look at the war on drugs. It has been 25 years since Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs. Our prison population h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f4cba517-3f5f-443d-9926-eb185c533f97.html Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT

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