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Hillary Clinton has many things to be proud of in this presidential election. But the way she and her supporters have chosen to end her campaign is not one of them. When Clinton ran for president, she made history. Never had a woman run who had a real shot at winning and who started the race as the odds-on favorite. She ran a good campaign, and she had a solid organization. And no matter what happens, as Barack Obama has said recently, Clinton has forever changed the rules for female presidential candidates. All of that is very empowering, not just...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Sunday, Dec. 22, 2002 10:34 p.m. EST Clinton Was Sued for Intimidating Black Voters in Arkansas In 1989, then-Gov. Bill Clinton was sued as one of three top Arkansas officials responsible for the intimidation of black voters in his state as part of a legal action brought under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, NewsMax.com has learned. And a year earlier the U.S. Supreme court ruled that Clinton had wrongfully tried to overturn the election of a black state representative in favor of a white Democrat. In the 1989...

What Goes Around Comes Around: Democrats and Reparations Does the Democratic Party Owe "Reparations" Too? Efforts by certain self described civil rights activists to procure monetary payments to persons of certain skin colors in reparation for the wrongs of an institution that ended in America over 130 years ago recently turned its teeth on the private sector as its presumptive payee. Bolstered by calls from racial aggravators for legislation forcing companies to disclose their records involving the institution of slavery prior to 1866, the slavery reparations crowd recently began filing lawsuits seeking monetary reparations for slavery from private companies. FleetBoston...

Selective 'racists': Dems double standards http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | During World War II, ex-Ku Klux Klansman, now U.S. senator, Robert Byrd vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." Just a couple of years ago, Byrd lectured us on the floor of the Senate that "there are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time."...

TONE MOUNTAIN, Ga., Dec. 22 — Thad Mayfield, 47, was not happy with the remarks that led to Trent Lott's demise as Senate Republican leader. But as a native of Greenwood, Miss. — just 20 miles from Mr. Lott's birthplace — he says he understands where Mr. Lott was coming from. He also says he believes he understands why the Republicans forced him from his leadership post."It certainly goes against what the president wants to project as the Republican image," said Mr. Mayfield, a black management consultant who now lives in Lithonia, Ga. "Like at the Republican convention, when...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 22) - John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman have the most support among Democrats when asked about the field of likely 2004 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, a poll suggests. But Hillary Rodham Clinton would lead if she were to enter the field. Among the current field of likely candidates, Democrats put Sens. Kerry of Massachusetts and Lieberman of Connecticut at 16 percent followed by Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri at 10 percent, with others in single digits. Twenty-four percent said they were unsure. In an expanded field that included Clinton, the New York senator was the choice...