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The mother of a mixed-race family is asking a popular ice cream manufacturer to change the name of one of its flavors to be more inclusive. Traci Schmidley says she is a mother of six and a foster mom to more. Some of her children are black and some are white. She says it was her 10-year-old son who first noticed the name of the ice cream, "The Great Divide." "The Great Divide" is half vanilla and half chocolate. The container has a line right down the middle dividing the off-white vanilla from the chocolate brown. When the family bought...

Reasonable and logical minds are at a loss to solve the conundrum of why so many blacks in America embrace the jaundiced cosmological view they do. Here’s a good analogy: It’s one thing to have curable cancer, get the treatment needed and be healed in a short period of time – it’s another thing to have a curable cancer but knowingly insist upon the wrong treatment regimen or to seek no treatment at all. Add to this that the sick person would make it a point to complain everywhere he went that he had curable cancer and wasn’t doing anything...

Many Democrats blame the unenlightened people of red-state America for John Kerry's defeat. But most working-class Americans remain politically centrist and a rising number simply want to live in the fast-growing suburbs of middle America. Liberals should stop sneering at the people they aspire to lead Is the United States turning into the Republic of Gilead? That was the name of the theocratic Christian America that Margaret Atwood imagined in her novel The Handmaid's Tale. Following the November election in the US, a map circulating on the internet showed the blue states of the east and west coasts annexed to...

"Retro" vs. "Metro" America If you are pro-life, support freedom of Christian expression, believe pornography is harmful and should be restricted, oppose usurious progressive taxation, believe in school choice, and vote mainly Republican, then you are part of Retro America, according to The Great Divide: Retro Vs. Metro America, a new book by John Sperling. The Great Divide is billed as "a blueprint for how the Democratic Party can regain, and maintain, control of the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives." Mr. Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix, believes that conservative voters with traditional values are a millstone...

<p>WASHINGTON – The first congressional airing of President George W. Bush's immigration-reform plan on Thursday showed that the divide between lawmakers who want undocumented workers to have a path to legalization and those who vehemently oppose such a move remains wide.</p>