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New Black Panther party members are seen outside voting polls in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Some embrace then saying that they protect anyone in the area. Others claim intimidation for citizens who would vote republican. Former Navy Seals, among others, would attempt to counter the New Black Panther party members on Election Day.

Website is an online database of black market activities. Provides a list of articles written about prostitution from around the world.  Has articles from places where it is both legal and illegal

This author has an argument against our Government on how there shouldn't be so many laws.

Greg Merle does a wonderful job of pointing out the facts that lead to the question are we really free? He lists a few restrictions the government puts on the American people.

"What is it that big government doesn't get about the "pursuit of happiness". We have to be free to make mistakes. We don't need laws designed to protect me from me, such as seat belt laws, trans fat laws, helmet laws, shower head water flow laws, etc. Did you know that there is actually a black market on certain toilets because the government wants to control how much you flush?  From a logical stand point, it's ridiculous."

Kentucky and North Carolina have passed Racial Justice Acts to counter systemic racial bias in the unfair sentencing of African Americans to the death penalty for killing whites. Statistical data shows there's is significant bias in the administration of the death penalty yet in two major cases before the Supreme Court, the Court ruled in favor of systemic injustice and upheld the death penalty in both cases. The Racial Justice Acts passed by Kentucky and North Carolina are a step in the right direction to remove systemic bias.

Gun activist that feel guns should have aban against them have it alll wrong, according to a University Professor. The debate should be about controlling access to firearms, rather than eliminating them and using market forces to drive up the price of weapons on the black market.

Many activist groups protested at the stonewall inn in New York City. The protest was about the stop-and-frisk practice of New York Police. New York police utilize racial profiling to stop-and-frisk people of color to see if they have anything illegal on their person.

John and Mary Beth Tinker, aged 13 and 16 respectively, attended public school in Des Moines, Iowa. In December, 1965, they and their parents attended a meeting to discuss ways of protesting the Vietnam War. The group decided to publicly wear black armbands as a symbol of their protest.

Following the shooting at a predominately black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the state is considering removing the Confederate flag from its capitol. But how did it get there in the first place? South Carolina's confederate flag hasn't been flying since the Civil War.

Last week's tragic shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine black parishioners gathered for a Bible study has renewed the debate over one of the most controversial Southern symbols - the Confederate flag. On Monday, a cascade of both Republicans and Democrats endorsed removing the Confederate flag from the statehouse in Columbia.