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- Obama's Touch of Class
  Posted by Jeff from Wall Street Journal
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  : "The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they've got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked with cough syrup. I don't care whether they enjoy my books, or would rather have every scrap of paper bearing my writing loaded into a C-47 and dumped into Lake Michigan. If it will help restore the land of relative equality I was born in, I'll fly the plane myself."
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- Oil spill adds to misery in floodwaters - U.S. Life
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  “It’s going to come down the Verdigris until they shut that water supply off,” he said. “So it’s just a matter of time.” Is it just me or is Bush's America looking like a third world country?
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- Human-trafficking investigation leads to 16 Johnson County raids
  Posted by Justonehumbletruthseeker from Kansascity
  Fifteen women rescued from human trafficking in Johnson County, Kansas. Illegal immigrants were recruited and employed in these sex-oriented industries, including massage parlors, acupressure, and Asian spas.
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- Brownback ‘applauds’ Pace’s homophobic comments.
  Posted by Jeff from Think Progress
  GOP party of hate? Leading candidate Brownback applauds Pace's hateful comments about homosexuals. Don't you love the primary season?
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- Evolution-centered science OK'd in Kan. - Science
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  The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of “intelligent design,” who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.
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- Moderates in Kansas Decide They're Not in GOP Anymore
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  There's a tidal change among moderate politicians in Kansas. Fed up with the policies and priorities of the Republican party, nine have switched to running as Democrats in the state, long dominated by the GOP.
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- Amazing Kansas Editorial Faults Radical Republicans
  Posted by Jeff from Dailykos
  As we prepare ourselves to make political endorsements in subsequent issues, I can tell you unequivocally that this newspaper has never endorsed so many Democrats. Not even close. In the 56 years we have been publishing in Johnson County, this basically has been a Republican newspaper. In the old days, before the Republican civil war that fractured the party, we were traditional Republicans....
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Obama's Touch of Class

Also, be sure to read this: "Whether watching television news, consulting political blogs or (more rarely) reading books, Americans today have become a people in search of validation for opinions that they already hold," Susan Jacoby, the author of ‘The Age of American Unreason,’ writes on the op-ed page of The Los Angeles Times. "This absence of curiosity about other points of view is the essence of anti-intellectualism and represents a major departure from the nation’s best cultural traditions."

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