african-american woman. hannah bond was a slave in north carolina who eventually escaped to upstate new york before settling in new jersey. her handwritten note was not published but purchased from a new york city bookseller in 1948 by dorothy porter wesley, an african-american librarian. in 2001, the harvard professor henry gates jr. saw the manuscript in a catalog where it was described as a 301-page handwritten script writ be in a female slave. the title page of the manuscript said the bond woman s narrative by hannah crafts, a fugitive slave, recently escaped from north carolina. professor gates bought the manuscript, authenticated it and published it in 2002 under the original title the bond woman s narrative.
0 ted cruise is running to be rush limbaugh. he can t keep getting away with this. it s idiotic. oh, i m not doing that. i m not doing that. republicans are now frantically warning tea party republican senator ted cruise that his plot to kill obamacare by defunding the government won t work. and will actually help president obama. the white house warned congress today that the president will veto any bill that defunds obama care even if it is attached to a build funding the government. today, ted cruise gathered with house tea party republicans to celebrate successfully forcing speaker john boehner to go through the meaningless exercise of pushing the country to a government shut down. two months age conventional wisdom in washington said this day was impossible. i want to commend house conservatives. and i want to commend speaker boehner for listening to the american people and for leading. for the house of representatives to stand up and vote to defund obamacare. is a tre
0 they know that ted cruise is going to fail and ted cruise is going to hurt their party. this is how nicole wallace described ted cruise s plan. i have a 2-year-old. sometimes when heap is on the scooter, he wants to cross the street even when the light is red. it is your job as a parent to hold the child and the scooter from running into traffic because he would get squished. ted cruise is responding to what is a genuine sentiment out there. however, when republicans run into the street, despite the fact that there is a flashing red light, they re going to get hit by the cars and killed. the conservative wall street journal editorial board called cruise s plan a kamikaze mission to. day, karl rove described it as a self-defeating defunding strategy. the desire to strike at obamacare is praise worthy. any strategy to repeal, delay, replace the law must have a credible chance of succeeding or affecting public opinion. defunding strategy doesn t. going down that road would strengt