America the Beautiful: - Remembering Jackie Robinson - 60 years later

Remembering Jackie Robinson - 60 years later
Afro American Newspaper - On Feb. 28, 1946, Jackie Robinson and his wife Rachel, married less than three weeks, boarded an American Airlines plane in Los Angeles to go to spring training in Daytona Beach, Fla, where he would attempt to desegregate professional baseball. It ...

Thomas Friedman Goes Against The New York Times Again
News Busters - For the second time in two days, Mideast expert and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has taken a position in agreement with the Bush administration, and contrary to his bosses. You have to wonder how long Friedman can get away with this and ...

Lebanese Shiites mourn Iraq shrine attack
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - BEIRUT, Lebanon - Tens of thousands of Lebanese Shiites beat their chests in mourning and shouted anti-American slogans in a rally Thursday to protest the bombing of a Muslim shrine in Iraq. The bomb attack on the Shiite shrine Wednesday and bloody ...

Alexander Hamilton did just as much as presidents to shape U.S.
Newark Advocate - Alexander Hamilton never became president of the United States, but in many respects, he was as important to the country as many who did. One of Hamilton's most important legacies is his contribution to ratification of the United States Constitution ...

Working class turning to food banks, shelters
Seattle Times - WASHINGTON When Lisa Koch asked several people at a Chicago soup kitchen to complete a survey of the people who eat there, she got a surprising response: "They asked how long it would take because they had to get back to work after lunch." A ...

War of the worlds
Inside Bay Area - SINCE Sept. 11, whenever the Bush team has found itself in political trouble, it has played the national security card against Democrats. It has worked so well that Karl Rove, in a recent speech to the Republican National Committee, made it a ...