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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...

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...