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The last barrier to African Americans actually achieving the American dream has been broken. Barrack Obama has been elected president of the United States of America in a landslide win.
Obama’s decisive political sweep indicates it’s time for citizens to unify, to celebrate their similarities and to look forward to a future marked by changes. Healing [...]

I think Americans are capable of addressing and solving the poverty created by the class structure, self-interest, individual and corporate greed, conquests and wars and, the inappropriate distribution of resources including water, food and medical assistance that lead to poverty, starvation and death.
IMO it’s shameful that earth’s most wealthy nations continue to destroy other cultures [...]

I read two very important things today that I would share.
“I am an evangelical Christian with a record of voting in line with the Republican Party. This year, however, I am casting my vote for Barack Obama. My support for Obama stands on its own, and has been well documented throughout this blog. But why [...]

U.S. Abortion Rate continues long-term decline, falling to the lowest level since Roe vs Wade - The abortion rate is now at its lowest level since 1974. The number of abortions declined as well, to a total of 1.2 million in 2005, 25% below the all-time high of 1.6 million abortions in 1990.  Source
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The United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world—almost twice as high as those of England, Wales and Canada, and eight times as high as those of the Netherlands and Japan.  Every year, roughly nine million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur among teens and young adults [...]