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  • Group files emergency petition in Wisconsin after finding 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots

    11/24/2020 3:57:51 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    Just The News ^ | 11/24/2020 | Joseph Weber
    "These discrepancies were a direct result of Wisconsin election officials’ willful violation of state law” – Amistad Project's Phil KlineThe national conservative group Amistad Project filed an emergency petition Tuesday with the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state’s unofficial results in the 2020 presidential election, saying it has identified over 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots.Results from the Nov. 3 balloting in the state show Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeated President Trump by a roughly 20,000-vote margin.Phill Kline, director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, said the number of potentially fraudulent ballots identified are “more than enough to call...
  • Schools Pushed on Diverse History Courses

    09/28/2005 9:40:40 PM PDT · by Angry Republican · 13 replies · 512+ views
    Yahoo! News (courtesy of AP) ^ | Sept 28, 2005 | MICHAEL GORMLEY
    ALBANY, N.Y. - State legislators across the country are increasingly directing their schools to teach students more about the struggles and triumphs of different races and ethnic groups — a move critics say amounts to politically correct meddling. In the latest such example, a new commission in New York will examine whether the "physical and psychological terrorism" against Africans in the slave trade is being adequately taught in schools. The commission is named for the slave ship Amistad, which was commandeered by slaves who eventually won their freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court. The recommendations could mean rewriting textbooks, which...
  • Jesse Jackson Calls For Changing Superdome Name To “Amistadium”

    09/06/2005 5:41:23 PM PDT · by The Therapist · 26 replies · 1,661+ views
    The Therapist ^ | 9-6-05 | rg
    Freuters—The Rev. Jesse Jackson, seemingly on a roll with an endless array of slave-era euphemisms to describe the plight of African Americans in the wake of hurricane Katrina, has called for authorities to rename the New Orleans Superdome. . “When I see the those walls, I see the hull of a slave ship,” said Jackson. “When I see those advertising banners and championship pennants surrounding the perimeter, I see a circumspect black man sitting in the crow’s nest. When I see the putrid, scurvy, urine-soaked squalor inside that stadium