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In the wake of the Scalise shooting, Fareed Zakaria hosted a segment on his CNN show this morning devoted to addressing how Republicans and Democrats can stop their "internecine struggle" and "reconcile." Two of the guests bought into the premise, discussing the challenges involved and possible approaches to reconciliation. But the third guest, Jill Abramson, who was fired in 2014 as executive editor of the New York Times, was having none of the kumbaya. To the contrary, she decried a supposed "false equivalency" between Democrats and Republicans. Abramson put the blame on Republicans for the divisive political climate and accused...

President Barack Obama said during a town hall meeting at the White House on Tuesday that he would never engage in a politics that was aimed at dividing people along the lines of race, ethnicity, religion or gender.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Crystal Lee Sutton, whose fight to unionize Southern textile plants with low pay and poor conditions was dramatized in the film "Norma Rae," has died. She was 68. Sutton died Friday in a hospice after a long battle with brain cancer, her son, Jay Jordan, said Monday. "She fought it as long as she could and she crossed on over to her new life," he said. Union organizers had targeted J.P. Stevens, then the country's second-largest textile manufacturer , because the industry was deeply entwined in Southern culture and spread across the region's small towns. However, North...

Several dozen Sacramento-area African American leaders, expecting to meet with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday, instead had a high-voltage exchange with the staff member sent in the governor's place. The event, designed to allow local pastors and leaders to question both gubernatorial candidates, turned into an emotional confrontation with Margaret Fortune, an African American educator from Sacramento. Fortune, an assistant secretary of education under Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and now senior adviser to Schwarzenegger, was quickly reduced to tears. The gathering at St. Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Sacramento was organized by the nonpartisan group Associated Ministers Empowering...

Abusive (Founding) Fathers -------------------------- John Adams on Benjamin Franklin: "His whole life has been one continued insult to good manners and to decency." Benjamin Franklin on John Adams: "He means well for his country, is always and honest man, often a wise one, but sometimes, and in some things, absolutely out of his senses." Thomas Jefferson on John Adams: "He hates Franklin, he hates [John] Jay, he hates the French, he hates the English. To whom will he adhere?"Open letter to George Washington from Thomas Paine:"...the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor,...