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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 21, 2012

  From our US prisons, an estimated 700,000 prison inmates are being released into society each year. Query: If law-abiding citizens and college graduates without criminal records are having horrific problems finding jobs in this dismal economy, how can ex-cons find legitimate, non-criminal work? With rising prison costs decimating state budgets, more early releases of [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 17, 2012

  Not a good week for Barack Obama — not only are his approval numbers falling faster than Kim Kardashian’s credibility and black Democrat voters abandoning him, now add the unanimous vote yesterday in the Democrat-controlled Senate against the president’s latest budget. Similarly, the House did a unanimous thumbs-down on Obama’s submitted budget in March [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 16, 2012

  Pinch me, I must be dreaming. Not only is Gov. Scott Walker even further ahead in the Wisconsin recall election polls than I last reported, but the DNC has decided to ditch the disco early and snatched away its presumably hefty financial support of the recall. Therefore, this stunning stiffing by the Democrat party, [...]

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