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Louramkkha Jusitrilem of the Miami Dade NAACP Youth Council talks about the George Zimmerman trial to a concerned group gathered at the North Dade Regional Library, July 9, 2013.For two hours Tuesday, nearly 200 people gathered to listen to faith-based leaders, attorneys and police call for peace after the verdict is announced in the George Zimmerman trial. Billed as a community briefing, the meeting inside the North Dade Regional Library’s auditorium in Trayvon Martin’s hometown of Miami Gardens was described as an event “to inform, empower and protect our community” before what is expected to be an emotion-filled day when...

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the failure of conservatism as an ideology for moving America forward with a positive agenda for expanding freedom and reviving morality and restoring justice.When I wrote my last book, "Taking America Back," to be perfectly honest, Republicans weren't really excited about it. After all, Republicans controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. They believed they had already taken America back. Only now are many of them awakening to the realization that freedom-loving, moral people have actually lost ground during the last six years with Republicans in control of...