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A photo of 16 black West Point cadets raising their fists is causing controversy, with many offended viewers linking the image to supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

Barack finally has his bounce. For weeks many political experts and pollsters have been wondering why the race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain had stayed so tight, even after the Illinois senator wrested the nomination from Hillary Clinton. With numbers consistently showing rock-bottom approval ratings for President Bush and a large majority of Americans unhappy with the country's direction, the opposing-party candidate should, in the normal course, have attracted more disaffected voters. Now it looks as if Obama is doing just that. A new NEWSWEEK Poll shows that he has a substantial double-digit lead, 51 percent to...

Contact: Marsha Richards, Communications Director (360) 956-3482 State's largest independent labor union orders pastor to send dues to ACLU SUNNYSIDE, WA - The Public School Employees (PSE) union has ordered a religious objector to send his dues to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) instead of a local food bank. Reverend Ivan Poisel, a part-time school bus driver in Sunnyside and pastor of a Church of God congregation, has religious objections to the activities of PSE, the state’s largest independent labor union. But operating under an “agency shop,” PSE requires public school employees to either be members of the union...