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The National Rifle Association is if anything boundlessly creative when it comes to thinking of new ways to keep its political friends and allies in tow and to win new ones to beat back gun controls. The latest ploy is to grab at more minorities. It announced with much fanfare on its website that it is a diverse organization and welcomes all who support unfettered gun ownership. The site promises comments from “diverse”…

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the First Lady

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 28, 2013

Op-ed by First Lady Michelle Obama: The Business Case for Healthier Food Options

The full text of the op-ed by First Lady Michelle Obama is printed below. The piece is published today in The Wall Street Journal and can be found…

In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report on KTYM 1460 AM Radio and streamed globally on ktym.com, on Friday, December 7, 9:30 AM PST, Marc Morial, National Urban League President, discusses recent White House talks he had with President Obama on the impact of the fiscal cliff and pending budget cuts on minorities and the poor. Morial details the proposals that the Urban League put forth to deal with the potential crisis in…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney got more white votes than any other GOP presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1988 and he still lost. He trounced President Obama among white males, senior citizens, rural voters, and self-identified Christian evangelicals and he still lost. GOP ultra conservative congressional and senate candidates and incumbents were heavily bankrolled, got lots of media ink,…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In an apparent off the cuff remark, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan gushed that he thought it was a “cool thing” that an African-American was president. But Ryan’s rapture with President Obama didn’t last past the first sentence. In the next breath…

Impact Micro Awards for June Announced

Fathers and Parenting Support Focus

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced its Impact Micro Awards for June on Tuesday, June 12. Impact Micro Awards are made to support organizations that have a proven track record of commitment to building community sustainability projects, activities, and service. The…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There was never much doubt that if the Supreme Court ever got a chance to decide the constitutionality of the health care reform law that it would be in for rough sledding from the court’s five conservatives. The half week of court questioning on the law more than bore out that dire…