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We’re going to delve back in the history of the Blues for this weeks edition of RC Friday Night Blues. I found this great video featuring pioneer bluesman, Mississippi John Hurt, that was from the Rainbow Quest TV series from the mid-sixties. This particular video features Mississippi John Hurt sharing a great story with Pete [...]

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By Charles Krauthammer
Townhall.com
WASHINGTON — Not a great speech, but extremely consequential. If Barack Obama succeeds, his joint address to Congress will be seen as historic — indeed as the foundational document of Obamaism. As it stands, it constitutes the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president.
The first part of the speech, [...]

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Just the other day, I had the pleasure of making the aquaintance of Lanceq. He posted the following remark on the About RochesterConservative.com page:
I like you guys… I’m a college student from Minnesota and a vet. It’ hard to walk the halls in my college these days and not be reminded of the heavy liberal [...]

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By Seth Swirsky
seth.com
Although Barack Obama is still in his first hundred days of office, they’ve been nothing to write home about. Of course, he did inherit a financial crisis, but he’s clearly made it worse with his Jimmy Carteresque doom-and-gloom talk.


His poorly-vetted cabinet picks have been a mess and his foreign policy is so muddled [...]

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By Dave Jeffers
Salt and Light
Although I did not watch the President’s speech last night, I was online with a few bloggers watching their running commentary to the speech. I have read excerpts of the speech and I will read it in its entirety later today, but as is the case with most presidential speeches before [...]

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BobbyJindal.com

Americans Can Do Anything
“Good evening. I’m Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana.
Tonight, we witnessed a great moment in the history of our Republic. In the very chamber where Congress once voted to abolish slavery, our first African-American President stepped forward to address the state of our union. With his speech tonight, the President completed a [...]

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By Daphne Retter
New York Post
WASHINGTON – Congressional Republicans signaled yesterday that President Obama could face a bruising fight as he begins this week trying to make good on a promise to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.
“I think most of my members will think that that’s not a smart move,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [...]

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Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Jim DeMint’s gentlemanly air and refined tone belie a power and an urgency in his words.
The stately senator from South Carolina sees America’s unique centuries-old system of freedom dying out.
And he thinks we may have to take to the streets to save it.
“I would think it’s time to start thinking about peaceful [...]

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I know, this is probably the third or fourth time I’ve featured Eric Clapton on RC Friday Night Blues! The man is just flat out smokin’ on that Fender Stratocaster! This video is another from the unreleased Martin Scorsese documentary, “Nothing but the Blues” with Eric performing “Everyday I Have the Blues”. I hope you [...]

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By Linda Chavez
Townhall.com
We’re a nation of cowards — or at least the attorney general of the United States thinks we are. In a speech at the Justice Department celebrating Black History Month, Attorney General Eric Holder said: “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have [...]

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