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I just got off the phone with the recalcitrant brother who is rapidly becoming the radical leftist among his group of friends.  I can’t tell you how funny this strikes me, but apparently knowing your Bible and a little bit about Malcolm X makes you a commie in his world.

"Only four in 10 said they have moved forward in the past five years -- a record low, Pew says, and far off the record 57 percent who in 1997 said they had moved forward in the previous five years."

I don't think I know any of the folks who've actually moved forward, and I'll be that the majority of them aren't taking into account the in

When you're busy raising money and trying to make sure paychecks don't bounce, you don't have a lot of time to blog. So, you just repost worthwhile emails:

Dear Sam:

Next time you see folks who you think are homeless, remember that one in four of them most likely is working full-time somewhere. The others may indeed have part-time jobs or have issues in their personal lives that create barriers to employment for them, but that doesn't mean they don't want a job....

Racism rears it's ugly head

I had to read the story a few times to make sure it wasn't a comedy skit from the Internets. Sadly, it is not.

Our fearless president claims that he gave up playing golf to show his solidarity and sacrifice due to the war in Iraq.

No word on what he gave up for the war in Afghanistan ... maybe Yahtzee?

Racism rears it’s ugly head

MTSU student Danielle Ross is mentioned at the the beginning of a Washington Post article on what her and her fellow campaigners have experienced while working for Barack Obama.

WaPost:
“The first person I encountered was like, ‘I’ll never vote for a black person,’ ” recalled Ross, who is white and just [...]

Debbie Hamilton weighs in on the news that illegal immigrants are sometimes given sedatives before being deported:

Badger and I were talking about Cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch the other day and about the Cousin Oliver syndrome as a whole. We both agreed that when a television show adds a cute and snarky kid, the show is doomed.