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Commentary: Black Scholars Give Obama an “F”

July 11, 2012 • by Joe Carter

Commentary: Black Scholars Give Obama an “F”

Under the policies and leadership of the Obama administration, the economic lives of struggling blacks are now worse, not better, than they were three years ago. “If the president were to give an account of his administration’s advancement of African Americans he would be hard pressed to describe anything significant beyond funneling redistributed wealth into government bureaucracies, a traditional path to the middle class for blacks,” says Anthony B. Continue Reading...

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Commentary: Black Scholars Give Obama an “F”

Commentary: Black Scholars Give Obama an “F”

Latest Posts

Breathing Eden’s Air: A Review by Makoto Fujimura

God Has Set Eternity in the Human Heart

‘The Pope & the CEO’ on WORLD’s Top Five

‘Defending the Free Market’ Makes WORLD’s Top Five

The Free-Market Case Against Big Business

Don’t Eat Your Dog: The Surprising Moral Case for Free Enterprise

Should the Church Evade the Issue of Tax Avoidance?

Balancing the “Big Three”

‘If there are people for whom to be Christian words alone would not suffice’

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