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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
[Commentary] It's a question all the zeros at the end of Mitt Romney's financials won't answer: Will people be comfortable with a Mormon in the Oval Office? There are doubts about the religious right supporting his candidacy, but apparently the Christian left has some concerns about Romney, a Mormon, delivering an inauguration speech in January of 2009.
In an interesting debate on God In New York City with writer Christopher Hitchens, former presidential candidate and full-time provocateur the Rev. Al Shapton made it clear he believes God is not on the side of a Mormon. The following is what he said according The Empire Zone, a New York Times blog.
Mr. Sharpton, in a jab at Mitt Romney (and the Mormon religion, which Mr. Hitchens had criticized because it once endorsed racial segregation), added, “As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyway, so don’t worry, that’s a temporary situation.”
Interesting that no one is calling for Sharpton's radio show to be pulled as a result of his frontal assault on Mormons — which carried all the seriousness of the crusades, and not a hint of the low-brow humor dripping from Don Imus' now famous remarks about Rutgers female basketball players.
To call black women "nappy headed hos" is outrageous. But to say God is going to defeat someone because of his religious preference would seem to be far more insidious — and just the sort of attack liberals abhor when it comes from the Bush team. To have credibility, one must call out intolerance regardless of source. Sharpton has ample ammunition to counter that the Mormon church has historical problems with race — but then the same could be said of other religions, and Sharpton went for the blanket condemnation, not a parsing of Mormon teachings and history.
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