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Just because it was November, didn't mean that the Kerry camp and its network shills couldn't come up with some more "October surprises." After all, for the Democrats and their media affiliates, it's always October. No ExitOn Election Day, the early returns from the Big Media-commissioned "exit polls" were that Senator John Kerry was drubbing President Bush across the East, especially in the two states Bush had to carry, Florida and Ohio, if he was to have a chance at winning the election. Keep in mind, that unlike the network election coverage, which begins in earnest only after the polls...

Say goodbye to Mary Frances Berry. Her 2nd 6 year term on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ends January 2005!

What does it take to get the attention of Mary Frances Berry? We guess we'll find out, now that the House Subcommittee on the Constitution voted Wednesday to issue a subpoena to her personal fiefdom -- aka the Commission on Civil Rights. The subpoena is the latest step in a years-long campaign by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to exercise their oversight authority over the Commission. Under Ms. Berry's chairmanship, the Commission has flouted the law repeatedly, declining to provide even routine information to Congress as required under the law. Congress has good reason to be concerned. A 1997...

Little Rock - Sunday, at a "Women for Clark" event in Manchester, New Hampshire, Dr. Mary Frances Berry officially endorsed General Clark. Dr. Berry will serve as a member of the Clark for President National Steering Committee. "I've never endorsed a presidential candidate before," said Dr. Berry. "But when I talk to General Clark, and when I listen to him, I can see him as a president for all Americans." General Clark was thrilled to receive Dr. Berry's endorsement. "For years, Dr. Berry has been a powerful voice for justice - in the classroom, in our courts, and in the...

2003 NEWS RELEASES, PRESS ADVISORIES AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS OPPOSES BAN ON RACIAL DATA COLLECTIONCites Critical Need for Data in Civil Rights Study and EnforcementWashington, DC - The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights affirmed that race data is essential to the advancement of civil rights enforcement, data collection and accurate analysis. By a 6-2 vote, the Commission approved the following statement during its monthly business meeting:"Given the significant role that scientific and empirical data play in academic study and enforcement of civil rights, the Commission opposes efforts to ban the ability of government entities or public...

President George W. Bush deliberately chose Rev. Martin Luther King's birthday to announce his opposition to affirmative action at the University of Michigan, the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said here Tuesday evening. "Even a dog knows the difference between being stepped on and being kicked," Mary Frances Berry told more than 200 listeners, most of them African-Americans, in the Montante Cultural Center of Canisius College. On Jan. 15, Bush said he supported diversity in higher education but called the University of Michigan's admissions policy "fundamentally flawed" because it "unfairly rewards or penalizes students based solely on their...

<p>Is there no end to the ridiculousness emanating from Mary Frances Berry's Commission on Civil Rights? Her personal political playground has just been ordered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pay Emma Monroig $160,000 and reinstate her as staff solicitor.</p>

Reparations are part of the unfinished business of the civil rights movement, said Mary Frances Berry, guest lecturer in the first installment of Beach Institute's 2002 series on reparations. "In fact, no matter how we look at it, at this hour the civil rights movement was very successful," she said. "I know that in a place that Clarence Thomas came from it's kind of hard to say that. But, the civil rights movement was successful." After the laughter subsided, Berry spoke to the packed sanctuary Thursday night on how the nation has backslided in civil rights, the historical beginnings of...