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I don't know what it will take for the folks in control of this country to understand that reparations for slavery is going to happen. I can't say when it is going to happen, but it will. Despite legal setbacks, black conservatives and David Horowitz, reparations is the best way to build a bridge across our great divide. Otherwise, African Americans and Caucasians will just keep sniping away at each other. Even kids get tired of bickering. Yet, a sincere apology is a hard thing for most of us. When we've wronged someone, I mean really shamefully wronged them in...

South Carolina's GOP Senate Primary Forces Beasley Into Runoff NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, June 9, 2004 Hoping for a political comeback, former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley found himself unable to clinch a primary victory and was forced into a runoff in his bid to win the Republican nomination for one of the nation's most closely watched Senate seats. Tuesday's primary put Beasley up against three-term Rep. Jim DeMint in the GOP's effort to grab the longtime Democrat seat held by retiring Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings. Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum won the Democrats' nomination. Beasley got 37 percent of the vote,...

HOUSTON (AP) -- The stirring comeback and spectacular escape were unnecessary this time around. John Elway and Barry Sanders were elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame without a sweat. As expected, two of the NFL's most dominating and exciting players made it in Saturday on their first attempt. Elway, the king of the comeback, and Sanders, the master of escape, cemented their status among the all-time greats, and were joined by Bob Brown and Carl Eller. ``Until you said no way, or I was in the locker room taking my uniform off, I was going to try to...

Lt. Gov. Karl Ohs Monday is expected to announce his support for Secretary of State Bob Brown in the Republican primary contest for governor. Ohs, reached in Helena late Friday afternoon declined to confirm that was his intention, but said he is scheduled to make his choice known in Billings Monday morning. “I’ll have an announcement on Monday,” he said. “At this point I’d better not say anything more.” In mid-September Gov. Judy Martz said she favored Billings businessman Pat Davison as her replacement. Martz decided against seeking a second term in the 2004 election. Brown, Davison and former GOP...

<p>HELENA -- Democrat Brian Schweitzer Monday reported raising another $106,000 the past three months for his 2004 gubernatorial campaign, continuing his record-setting pace for rolling up early cash in a Montana governor's race.</p> <p>This year, the Whitefish farmer/rancher has raised a total of $361,000 -- far more than a Montana gubernatorial candidate has ever raised at this point in the campaign.</p>

     Black conservative leaders said they were surprised by the frankness on both sides in a meeting yesterday with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Republican National Committee Chairman Mark Racicot and Deputy National Chairman Jack Oliver.      "It was extraordinary," said Bob Brown, chairman and chief executive officer of a North Carolina public relations firm and a former domestic policy adviser in the Nixon White House. "The candor between black leaders and top Republicans was like something I haven't seen before — and I've been to a lot of meetings."      Mr. Brown added, "We got past the niceties real quickly." Each side...