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Black Enterprise, VIBE and
Rolling Stone to name a few.
shoot them. Maybe Fox and
Calderon should be careful
with the comparison.
As for Mexico, however,
nearly all of its recent presi-
The analogy by Fox and
Calderon would only work if
t was
building a wall to hold its dti-
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years.
Legislative leaders said
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the Fall of Communism
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would have received the help
they urgently needed and still
need.
God did not make two
classes of children and Ameri-
can policy that creates such in-
equities and legalized neglect
must cease. Please make your
voice and your votes count for
Katrina's children and all
uninsured children over the
next weeks and months with
our political leaders in all par-
ties. It's time to say to our chil-
dren we care for each of you
and to honor the
God we claim to trust on
our currency. I hope this re-
minder that Katrina's children
aie .-.till waiting, still suffering
still looking to adults in our
nation for protection and suc-
cor will make us all act now.
and have now been sent to
the House for further consid-
eration in their committees.
We will now return to our
committees for three weeks
where we will consider bills
sent over from the House
This week was extremely
hectic. We had some great
pieces of legislation get
passed. Several of mine w-ere
among those. SB 426 would
modify procedures for mu-
nicipal incorporation. SB 572
would create an income tax
refund check off for dona-
tions to the lood Bank. SB
was
also approved. This is an im-
portant measure i
will help keep consumer dol-
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cency is essential as they have
faced 50 different state eligibil-
ity and procedural require-
ments including demands for
health records washed away
by the flood. Millions of chil-
dren like Katrina's are eligible
for coverage but are not en-
rolled in existing programs be-
cause of bureaucratic barriers
that make it difficult to obtain
or keep coverage. Other chil-
dren are excluded from pro-
grams or go uninsured when
their parents change jobs. Still
others don't get health services
they need because program
benefits which vary from state
to state are limited in their
state. Had we a simpler more
uniform child health coverage
and benefit system in place in
America, Katrina's children
its opportunities. This, said
Reagan, was "hardly the same
thing as building a Berlin Wall,
which imprisoned people in a
social system they didn't want
to be a part of."
Gorbachev must have felt
a little stupid. He hadn't really
thought through the issue.
And, indeed, what applied to
Gorbachev then should apply
to Mexico's leaders today.
Consider these brief facts on
the Berlin Wall:
The Berlin Wall was built
for the purpose of holding
captive a population of East
Germans suffering under So-
viet communism. Commu-
nism was so stifling that those
who lived under it naturally
tried to escape. The human
drain was so constant that
communist authorities built a
wall, on top of which they
placed barbwire, and along
The Crown, (the city of
Toronto s office of prosecution) but right
is now filing formal charges
a case
U.S. Islamic group under a microscope
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women diagnosed
breast cancer and occurs
when fluid collects in the
arm, causing it to swell.
still does not know what he
was initially being arrested for,
Tonye Allen, while assaulting and maintains he never fought
Ann Brown.
Allen was
charged with assault and re-
the couple ha., truggled since sisting arrest. The couple had
then to share their story, gain hoped by
public support, and raise
funds in their bid for freedom
in a foreign land
development institutes in sci-
entifically research-based in-
structional strategies for
586 would modify the Educa-
tion Leadership Oklahoma
Act, to require the Oklahoma
Commission for Teacher
Preparation to put more em-
phasis on recruiting efforts
toward teachers at high-
poverty schools, low-achiev-
ing schools and in counties
with the lowest percentage of
teachers National Board cer-
tification. SB 661 relates to
the Oklahoma Charter
Schools Act. SB 926 would
require the Oklahoma Com-
mission for Teacher Prepara-
tion to offer professional
leaders can and must take in
2007: guarantee comprehen-
sive health and mental health
coverage for every child wher-
ever they live in America to
meet the urgent unmet need of
Katrina's children in their
home states and across the
land who desperately need
health and mental health cov-
erage.
There are over nine mil-
lion uninsured children in
America and millions more
underinsured children. Kat-
rina's children are a case study
for why a national floor of
health and mental health de-
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back. Photos of his bi utaliza-
eventually tion pretty much co i.iborate
his story.
Allen and Brown are still
‘ ‘ j now the charges struggling to raise monies for
would have been dropped, lawyer fees and their hotel bill.
The journalists, whose com-
bined writing and photogra-
It has been five long phy credits include^ Essence,
months since African Ameri-
can journalists* Tonye Allen
Their blog, which posts details
of their drama, can be accessed
at www.TonyeAUenan-
dAnnBrown.btogspot.com To
sign a petition in their support
ion-
ever since, fighting for justice site.com / takeac-
while trying to maintain their tion/946246942
profiling and police brutality, daily livelihood. Both are pro-
the couple has struggled since fessionals with no prior crimi-
then to share their story, gain nal records,
public support, and raise
funds in their bid for freedom
in a foreign land
On that fateful day, police and pursuing
from Toronto Division 51 de-
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"We are exhausted and
traumatized," expresses
Brown. "1 keep trying
to find a bright side in all this,
now I'm hard
pressed. We are humbly ask-
against ing for prayers and support
Allen; two counts for resisting and we come through this or-
arrest and two counts for as- deal.
Brutalized black journalists still
struggle for freedom in Canada
It has been five long nation. When the couple asked saulting a police officer. Allen
months since African Ameri- questions, the police turned vi-
can journalists, Tony e Allen olent, beating up and arresting
and Ann Brown hailed that
cab last year on October 16,
2007. Blatant victims of racial
profiling and police brutality,
and Ann Brown hailed that have been trapped in Toronto gotohttp://www.thepetitii
cab last year on October 16,
2007. Blatant victims of racial
GOVERNOR BRAD HENRY. D-Okla., poses with a group of service members from Oklahoma
during a March 6 visit in Kuwait. Henry visited several camps throughout Iraq and Kuwait to
show support for the men and women of the Armed Forces. (Contributed Photo)
various immune and meta- with the school systems, puts
bolic disorders. Our state al- into TRS. The increased em
ready has private blixid cord ployer contribution would be
teachers of English language blood banks but the costs are contingent upon available
learners and children in too great for most Okla-
poverty in order to meet the homans. This would give all
Oklahomans access to live-
saving cord blood.
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Is the U.S. government about to say,
"Enough is enough" and crack down on the mil-
lions of dollars being poured into American Is-
lamic organizations that are believed to be
supporting Jihad against American "Infidels"?
Ihat day may be aiming soon as organiza-
tions receiving contributions from wealthy
donors affiliated with rich Middle Eastern gov-
ernments are under a microscope lately.
In the wake of the scandalous news of
Chiquita Brands International is scheduled
preparing to plead guilty on March 19 of sup-
porting terrorists, the U.S. government is look-
ing very closely at so-called "charitable" or
"educational" organizations that may be doing
more than simply offering alms to the pixir or
n ading lessons to children.
One such group that is getting more than a
simple second look is the Council on America-__
Islamic Relations (C AIR), an organization that MILITANT ISLAMIC GROUPS (inset) can be
some believe is converting casual Americanized found in the United States and have cells in
Moslems into diehard fundamentalist believers, many American cities. Banana company
So, what's so bad about someone being fer- Chiquita Brands International was charged
March 14, with doing business with a terrorist
See ISLAMIC GROUP. P. 7 organization.__
cover the additional costs of
last year's $3,000 teacher pay
raise created through the in-
homa (TRS). Senate Bill 1092 creasing costs of health insur-
variety of blood diseases, in- would increase the monies
eluding leukemia, as well as that the state, in combination
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state dollars to cover that
cost. Currently, the rate is 8
diverse needs of such student Oklahomans access to live- percent for common educa-
groups and eliminate the saving cord blood. tion employers, two-year col-
achievement gap. SJR 22 re- A "back-to-school" sales leges and state agencies in
quests the Oklahoma Health tax holiday bill, SB 861, was the system. Four-year univer-
Care Authority to increase also approved. This is an im- sities and colleges currently
coverage for the Breast and portant measure in that it contribute 7.05 percent. This
Cervical Cancer Prevention
and Treatment program to in- lars in the state. The Okla-
clude compression bandages homa sales
and sleeves as well as physi- would be held
cal therapy for those women days as t
suffering from lymphedema -
a condition which affects fif-
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w hich they posted soldiers In-
nocent, unarmed civilians
who dared to try to leave-there the Mexican government
was no such thing as "love it or I „
leave it -were simply arrested zens captive, to patrol them, to
or shot, and hundreds were in
fact killed.
Needless to say, then, the
Berlin Wall was quite different
from the U.S. border with
Mexico. The U.S. border is pa- dents are the product of Amer-
trolled not to prevent, say, Tex- ican Ivy League colleges,
ans from escaping a tyrannical principally Harvard, where
America for the sunlight of I„
freedom in Mexico, but, rather,
because U.S. policymakers they know better?
have concluded that America i Mexico's leaders cannot
cannot accommodate all of grasp the simple difference be-
those yearning to live here. tween their border with Amer-
In short, a U.S. border ica and the Berlin Wall, then
fence with Mexico is a symbol their citizens have worse prob-
of the freedom and desirability lems than I had thought.
of our country. To the contrary,
the Berlin Wall was a symbol Paul Kengor is author of The
of the lack of freedom and de-
sirability of the communist
world. The Berlin Wall was a
cold, gray tombstone to
human freedom, whereas for Vision & Values at Grove City
America remains a beacon to College in Grove City.
human freedom. Pennsylvania.
bill would increase the con-
tribution rate to 8.75 percent
tax holiday infusing the retirement sys-
on the same tem with $36 million annu-
the Texas holiday, ally. This would help get the
Under the provisions of the funded rate for the system to
bill, shoes and clothing around 75 percent in twenty
teen to twenty percent of all priced at less than $100
with would be tax-free during the
first Friday, Saturday and on Thursday that they will be
Sunday in August. There is announcing a budget agree-
also a provision in the bill to ment sometime early next
We also unanimously reimburse cities and counties week. One of the things 1
approved SB 139 to create the that lose any revenue due to hope comes out of the agree-
Oklahoma Public Cord Blood the sales tax holiday ment is an education supple-
We also unanimously mental funding bill to help
lahoma Health Sciences Cen- passed a measure to
ter. Umbilical cord blood is strengthen the Teachers Re-
rich in adult stem cells,
which can be used to treat a
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Recruiting teachers for high poverty areas and increasing medical coverage
Suitilavliw
By Judy Eason McIntyre
This week was our dead-
line to have heard all of the
bills that were approved in
committee a
few
ago. We met
|Kjj|KS that deadline
successfully.
Of the neariy
400 bills that
_Mclntyre_ were passed
out of commit-
tee. about three-fourths were
approved by the full Senate
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