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Call to stop IRS probe of NAACP

November 19, 2004

WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has asked President Bush to “call off the dogs at the IRS” by terminating the tax agency’s probe of the NAACP. Rangel co-signed an Oct. 29 letter to IRS Commissioner...

Every day were in Iraq, situation gets worse

November 19, 2004 By Susan Webb

In the wake of the U.S. assault on Fallujah, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, called for investigation of possible violations of international laws on treatment of civilians and war prisoners in...

No quick fixes

November 12, 2004

Opinion A major tactic of the ultra-right over the last four years was courting the religious right, the “evangelical” crowd, pouring our tax money into both Black and white churches under the pretext that they are...

Letters

November 12, 2004

Cut to the chase The only prisoners being tortured in Cuba are in Guantanamo. Viva Fidel! William BungeMontreal, CanadaReligion column needed In this past election and, through my work in the community, I have met countless...

Editorials

November 12, 2004

Stop new witch-hunt The Internal Revenue Service sent a letter to the NAACP Oct. 8, warning the civil rights organization that it was under investigation for possible violations of its tax-exempt status. The letter complained that...