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I’d be remiss if I didn’t feature legendary jazz and blues singer, Bessie Smith on Friday Night Blues. I found this great video of a segment of the movie short, St. Louis Blues, on youtube. Here’s a description from RedHotJazz.com: In 1929, Kenneth W. Adams and W.C. Handy wrote a short film treatment based on [...]

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More important to protect abortion doctors than “that fetus, or child — however way you want to describe it.” By Andrew C. McCarthy nationalreview ONLINE There wasn’t any question about what was happening. The abortions were going wrong. The babies weren’t cooperating. They wouldn’t die as planned. Or, as Illinois state senator Barack Obama so [...]

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By Jon Sanders TownHall.com With yet more apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you just might be a liberal if… * You blame the oil companies for high gas prices, but believe in doing everything humanly possible to keep them from drilling for more oil. * You’d have no problem with a Democratic President talking with Mahmoud [...]

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A cover-up in the making? National Review Online The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally exploded [...]

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By Andrew Malcom LA Times Blogs These annoying journalists are at it again, trying to poke around into papers in the background of candidates’ lives. This time it involves freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, his friend and former radical activist William Ayers and the University of Illinois. The university has refused to release records related [...]

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By Foon Rhee boston.com Political Intelligence While troops deployed abroad might be giving more money to Barack Obama, a poll released today says that John McCain will get the vast majority of votes from members of the military and veterans. According to Gallup, McCain leads Obama 56 percent to 34 percent, with 11 percent expressing [...]

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Family News in Focus San Francisco calls the Catholic Church’s teachings hateful, defamatory and insensitive. The liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether a scathing anti-Catholic resolution from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is unconstitutional. The resolution, passed unanimously in 2006, accused the Vatican of operating as a “foreign country” and [...]

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By Michael Gerson RealClearPolitics WASHINGTON — It is now clear why Barack Obama has refused John McCain’s offer of joint town hall appearances during the fall campaign. McCain is obviously better at them. Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency — two hours on Saturday night evenly divided between the relaxed, tieless candidates [...]

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By Pete Hegseth Vets For Freedom Samarra, Iraq — The second most refreshing thing about this latest visit back to Iraq — aside from spending time with soldiers — is the respite from the never-ending drumbeat of election coverage. In my week with combat troops, I didn’t hear the names “Obama” or “McCain” once: the [...]

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