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All over TV, Democrat pundits along with the MSM are laughing their derrieres off and putting a negative spin on the Republicans announcing that they will spend 10 million dollars on minority outreach. Usual suspect Al Sharpton said in reference to the GOP outreach, "Money can't buy us." Republicans believe the left's spin that they lost the presidential election because they are the party of old white guys and stuffy goody-two-shoes values. In keeping with their characteristic bigotry of low expectations, the left advised the GOP to lower the bar to attract minorities, making the party more inclusive. As a...

STEPHANOPOULOS: That was Bill Clinton after Dukakis's loss in '88. BRAZILE: That was Bill Clinton after Walter Mondale lost, after Jimmy Carter lost. We had a dynamic governor who was reform minded, who took those reform issues and brought them into the national forefront. He really helped recharge the Democratic Party. But, you know, the Republican Party is out to lunch. I watched CPAC Charl -- I mean Karl. (LAUGHTER) BRAZILE: Charles was a former friend. ROVE: I thought I was a current friend. BRAZILE: But you're always a friend, but you owe me some chili. ROVE: But you owe...

NASA has selected the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corp. of Falls Church, Va., to administer a $1 million career development and educational program designed to address the critical shortage of U.S. minority students in science and engineering fields. The NASA Astrobiology Institute's (NAI) Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS) program in Moffett Field, Calif., is providing the funding for the four-year effort. The program will provide opportunities for up to four faculty members and eight students from minority-serving institutions to partner with astrobiology investigators. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and the future of life on...

President George Bush has launched an outreach effort to win Muslim support for his reelection campaign in 2004. One of the organizations the president is courting has opposed the listing of Hamas and other Islamic groups as terrorist organizations. The administration has been considering a proposal that would preserve Hamas as a political movement while eliminating its military wing, officials said. On Thursday, the president met Yahya Mossa Basha, chairman of the American Muslim Council, during Bush's appearance in Michigan, Middle East Newsline reported. Basha delivered a letter to Bush on behalf of the American Muslim community. The letter was...

Black Group Glad NASCAR Cut Ties with Jesse Jackson; Racing Organization Can Continue Minority Outreach, But It Doesn't Need to Pay Off Jackson 7/29/03 2:14:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: David Almasi, 202-371-1400 ext. 106, for Project 21 WASHINGTON, July 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NASCAR has severed its financial ties to the Reverend Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, ending what members of the African-American leadership network considered little more than a shakedown of the professional auto-racing organization. Project 21 members encourage NASCAR to continue its outreach to minorities, but consider Jackson9s past relationship more hurtful than helpful....

The media didn't pay much attention when J.C. Watts was elected chairman of the House Republican Conference, the highest position ever held by an African-American congressman. But when he announced last week that he would not be standing for reelection this November, there was a great deal of press coverage. Howard Fineman wrote an article detailing Watts' frustrations with the GOP. Journalists asked what the loss of the only black Republican in Congress said about the party. As Timothy Carney noted in National Review On-Line, the headline "Congress's Only Black Republican Will Quit" adorned the front page of The New...