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The 2012 election is one of the strangest ones in my lifetime. more
There are advantages and disadvantages to being a senior citizen. more
While tens of millions of Americans gathered around their living room televisions to watch the first debate between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney, a group of about 50 people took a chair in the Town of Hempstead Democratic Committee headquarters in Valley Stream. more
A reporter from the student-run Hofstra Chronicle newspaper stood to ask a question of Dr. Cornel West, the intellectual provocateur, New York Times bestselling author, and Ivy League African-American studies and philosophy professor best known for his defense of America’s poor. The young woman said she had recently conducted an informal survey in which 6 of 10 Hofstra students said they did not believe poverty was a relevant issue for them as college students this election season. more
Sometimes you just have to get off the grid. Deadlines loom, tension builds, phones keep ringing and, if you’re in an office, the stuff in the inbox keeps piling higher and higher. more
Barack Obama is, of course, our first African-American president. According to the birthers, he is also our first foreign-born president. more
“This month is important for African Americans — it gives many a sense of pride,” said Ar-Rahman Buskey, program director of the Martin Luther King Center. “It’s important to let … more
I ran across an amusingly insightful postcard on my Facebook news feed last week. It featured a quadrangle with head shots of the four remaining contenders for the Republican presidential nomination –– Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Below it, the caption read, “The Committee to Re-elect Barack Obama.” more
To the Editor: After reading Al D’Amato’s column “Israel’s Armageddon” (June 2-8), as a Jew, and more important, as a global citizen who seeks peace in the Middle East, I was concerned … more
An estimated 3 million people enter the United States illegally every year, over half a million of them over the Arizona border. Fed up with the complete inaction in Washington to protect and defend … more
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