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Cliff Schecter: the race-baiting and Red-bashing 'Senator No'

It is almost fitting that Senator Jesse Helms - longtime US Senator from North Carolina, onetime right-wing political commentator and a constant conservative voice on both domestic and foreign policy issues in American politics...

Racist Black TV Network Will Only Show DNC Convention

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King, Jr."I Have a Dream Speech" African...

In new memoir, Broadway composer Charles Strouse, 80, looks back on success, failure and tumult

charlotte.com     11 hrs ago   1 related          

The tributes were predictably extravagant at the 80th-birthday party for Broadway composer Charles Strouse one recent evening at the posh 21 Club. "Melodies that touch the heart and lodge in the head," was how his longtime...

Get ready for a rerun on I-5 near Tukwila

komoradio.com     1 hr ago          

Three right lanes of I-5 just north of the SR-599 exit were closed for about an hour Tuesday afternoon for emergency road repair while DOT crews worked to fix a loose expansion joint. And the lanes will be closed again on...

Joe Cutbirth: Obama's Mile High Moment

This isn't hype. If Obama delivers, he'll complete the eloquent self-introduction he made to most of us four years ago, when he said: ...the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States...

Want To Make More Money? Don't "Sound Black." Or Southern! [Color Blindness]

gawker.com     7 hrs ago   2 related          

Over on the New York Times "Freakonomics" blog, Steven D. Levitt tackles the issue of "sounding black." Specifically: As it relates to one's salary. Levitt's University of Chicago colleague, Jeffrey... [[ This is a content...

A ROCK STAR EVENT FOR OBAMA

freerepublic.com     9 hrs ago          

This truly is the American Idol election. Yesterday afternoon the big news was the fact that Barack Obama has decided to change venues for his acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention. Apparently the Pepsi Center,...

The Killing Of America

notcoming.com     47 mins ago          

“While you watched this, five of us were murdered. One was the random killing of a stranger.” That is the final spoken narration of The Killing of America; delivered as deadpan and heavily-handed as all before it but this time...

FISA BATTLE TAKES FRONT AND CENTER IN CONGRESSIONAL RACES

Standing up for principle, standing up for AmericaThis morning I spoke to a reporter for the Savannah Morning News, the biggest newspaper in John Barrow's district. But Regina remembers when the government wiretapped Martin...

Most School Grades Up, But State Flunks 8 In Duval County

news4jax.com     5 hrs ago   22 related          

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- More Florida schools earned average or outstanding grades from the state's board of education, but in Duval County, four high schools, three elementary schools and one charter school received failing...

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