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40 years after MLK, the dream is still obscured

A collection of papers sprawls across a coffee table in Cincinnati. Stacked within their dog-eared and clipped corners are one man's account of the American Dream and why, for him and millions who've benefited from his life's work, it hasn't come true.

Flip through them. There's an eyewitness account of a night when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. updated the president on the civil rights drama unfolding in the South. There's the story of struggle and violence girded, always, with a steely glint of hope.

Backlighting that history, though, is the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's lament that somewhere the race toward equality and justice was abandoned far short of a finish line many died to define.

"What is the status of the dream in America?" asks Shuttlesworth's wife Sephira, who is organizing his book.

January 2005 - December 2005

Last week Canada's justice minister proclaimed that same-sex marriages would not inevitably lead to the legalization of polygamy. Steve Martinovich has heard that one before
China's Martin Luther King Jr. is dead: Okay, his timing was a little off but Michael Moriarty's prediction was pretty well correct: something big happened in China
Rock star judges usurp power for fame: Why are America's judges becoming increasingly activist? John T. Plecnik says it's natural when you achieve enough status to have groupies
Dowd's your mommy: Bernard Chapin couldn't let go unanswered a recent column by Maureen Dowd arguing that that men do not want to marry their equals
Who are you calling mommy?: Kimberley Jane Wilson isn't any bigger of a fan of Maureen Dowd's essay. She argues Dowd did a disservice to both men and women
Today, Ariel Sharon is irrelevant: Ariel Sharon once famously declared Yasser Arafat "irrelevant" but Ariel Natan Pasko argues that label only describes the Israeli prime minister these days
Butler a pleasant surprise: Contrary to what we would have suspected, Lady Liberty thought highly of both The Phantom of the Opera and the remake of Assault on Precinct 13
Student vouchers invite government involvement: Nancy Salvato says it's a good thing that the battle over school vouchers has mostly been a losing one because the second a private school accepts public money is the same second the government effectively takes them over
Taking oaths and stealing freedoms: The president's oath at the inauguration was the focus of a minor battle over the separation of church and state.

Search Politics for MPs and issues

The data protection minister, Michael Wills, today said it was "too soon" to judge whether HM Revenue & Customs had been guilty of "systemic failure" in losing the personal information of 25 million people.

His comments came as police continued to search for the two CDs, containing child benefit data relating to 7.25 million families, which have been missing since a HMRC junior manager posted the discs to the National Audit Office on October 18.

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Herald/David Morris

He may be nothin' but a hound dog, but that cat can sing.

So said a pair of fans, who along with nearly 100 others gathered Monday night at the Central Texas Homebuilders Association facility in Harker Heights, to ring in the New Year to the swinging sounds of Elvis impersonator Johnny Memphis.

The night began with a short dose of Elvis-style entertainment as Memphis performed some of the King of Rock and Roll's best-known hits before dinner was served to the crowd.

To pass the time before the big countdown to 2008, Memphis served as master of ceremonies throughout the event, entertaining the crowd with TV trivia and familiar Elvis slang with a stage pressence even the King would be proud of.

Jim Barney of Morgan's Point was one of many people who drove from well outside the Killeen area to hear the show, and sported a Johnny Memphis trademark jacket with woven lettering on the back.

Support unknown and unvoiced agendas

Last week, I declared support for charities and politics was going down separate but almost identical paths. That column discussed fund raising, programs, and charitable giving. Today's column represents the other side of the coin. In considering politics, the thrust is directed at attracting favorable attention and support for special projects. I consider support to include tangible and intangibles. Political appeals run the same gamut as requests from tax-exempt charitable organizations. The range of political appeals is derived from carefully guarded mailing lists. The number of mailing pieces will be dependent upon the campaign, financial support, and strength of the opposition. Celebrity or third party endorsements imply you should follow the example set by this star personage and go down the same path.