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Can a Marxist who wants to take down the Free West really be �not a bad guy

Judi McLeod, If the entire Congress is willing to give President Barack Obama a pass on being a Marxist/Socialist, why shouldn’t the allegedly right-of-centre Fox News Corp. comfortably do the same thing? Whitewashing the fact that top Fox guy Bill O’Reilly said of Marxist Obama: “He is not a bad guy. I think people misread […] Continue reading →

Judge OKs pact ending Ark. desegregation payments

A federal judge said Monday that Arkansas can stop making payments in one of the nation’s most historic desegregation efforts but cautioned that work remains to ensure Little Rock-area students receive a proper education. The state has made more than $1 billion in payments to three Little Rock-area school districts since 1989 to aid desegregation […] Continue reading →

Deadly Cold Polar air brings single-digit cold to East, South

Fountains froze over, a 200-foot Ferris wheel in Atlanta shut down, and Southerners had to dig out winter coats, hats and gloves they almost never have to use. The brutal polar air that has made the Midwest shiver over the past few days spread to the East and the Deep South on Tuesday, shattering records […] Continue reading →

Donors chip in to help programs hurt by shutdown

As the partial government shutdown rolls on, programs that rely on federal money are feeling the strain — and so are the people who depend on their services. For 16-year-old Alishe’ah Sockwell, federal money makes a big difference. It helps put a roof over her head. It allows her mother, Nia, to undergo job training. […] Continue reading →

Clinton praises release of Bosnian war documents

The American public wasn’t clamoring for military intervention in Bosnia nearly two decades ago, but former President Bill Clinton says foreign policy decisions cannot be made by the polls. Clinton rallied U.S. allies to support airstrikes to end the ethnic killings in the region in the 1990s. But some of more than 300 recently released […] Continue reading →

American History: This Week in the Civil War

This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Aug. 25: South Carolina fighting, violence in Kansas. The Associated Press reported in a dispatch dated Aug. 25, 1863: “The bombardment of (Fort) Sumter still continues, and the south wall has been demolished almost to its base.” For weeks now, Union forces have been attempting […] Continue reading →

One of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pantsuits is on display at a museum in Arkansas

De la Renta joins Clintons and pantsuit in Ark. One of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pantsuits is on display at a museum in Arkansas. Posed near a red, cashmere outfit Laura Bush wore in 2008 and a beige ensemble Nancy Reagan donned a decade earlier, the teal, silk pantsuit almost doesn’t need a marker to identify […] Continue reading →