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Tom Brokaw obviously favors the right wing, but the show is still one of the finest Sunday news programs on television. I’m happy to spread the word.
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Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Nomination for President in Denver. (Photo: BarackObama.com)
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama
“The American Promise”
Democratic National Convention
August 28, 2008
Denver, Colorado
As prepared for delivery
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To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation;
With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for [...]
The following is an action alert from Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches. eNews Park Forest carries Jamail’s articles regularly:
Washington Report Correspondent Mohammed Omer Hospitalized Following Detention by Israeli Soldiers at Allenby Bridge Crossing
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Gaza correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and co-recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was
hospitalized with [...]
Again, remember the “F-Bomb” shows up a couple of times. Hit play and enjoy!
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Oil prices jumped $11 a barrel to a new high above $139 a barrel. An analyst from Morgan Stanley predicted prices could reach $150 by July 4. According to WTAE in Pittsburgh:
A falling dollar and growing tensions in the Middle East are also pushing prices higher.
Light, sweet crude for July delivery has traded [...]
Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, and Hillary Clinton is ready to call it quits on Friday or Saturday:
‘Senator Clinton will be hosting an event in Washington, D.C., to thank her supporters and express her support for Senator Obama and party unity. This event will be held on Saturday to accommodate more [...]
Easter Sunday was just another violent day in Iraq, with four American soldiers and 58 Iraqis killed today in violence around the country. The worst was in the Green Zone, above. The four American dead pushes the United States total to 4,000 officially reported.The grim email announcements from various news sources are arriving now.
According to [...]
What can I say? I’m told by some that 3,992 American soldiers dead in Iraq is not a bad number. After all, there were many more people killed in World War II. I should just accept that number. Is that a just comparison? Is the war in Iraq at all just?
But this one [...]
There aren’t many stories in the United States media about how highly women are generally regarded in Islam. Many choose to focus on how repressed women are, often without cause. Muslims I have come to know in the Chicagoland area are proud to share who they are, and how poorly the American media has told [...]
CNN has projected that John McCain now has enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination for president. Mike Huckabee is not on CNN conceding to John McCain.
Huckabee has class. He has some evolutionary problems, but he’s a nice guy. Our astronomer friend may disagree (Huckabee = very very very bad guy), but [...]
