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Three things stand out about Dick Clark for me. First of all, he and I did something very similar. When he was 13 he walked into his first radio studio and said to himself, "This is the kind of job I want." That was about how it happened with me as well.

 

He was responsible for getting African Americans acts on  network television. Remember his show started in 1957, before the President Johnson passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act .Jerrypippin.com

What Bush is assembling on the local level looks less like a political campaign than what is known in

business as a multilevel marketing scheme. In an MLM, like Amway ,Mary Kay Cosmetics or Tupperware, each independent entrepreneur who joins the sales force. MATT BAI

Two state appeals courts will have to decide for themselves whether to uphold decisions by two Dane County judges that put a stop to the photo ID requirements of the state voter ID law after the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday declined to directly take appeals of the cases.

Wisconsin election officials say that six Republicans running as Democrats in the upcoming recall elections should be allowed to stay on the ballot.

Walker has a 5-point lead against Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, 50 percent to 45 percent, and a 7-point lead -- 50 percent to 43 percent -- against Kathleen Falk. PPP

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

If you're one of the millions of people who get emails from MoveOn.org, then you've probably heard of the "99% Spring." Some Occupy types have criticized the effort as a scheme by Democratic operatives to co-opt their movement. Mother Jones

"If Obama is defeated it will not speed up progressive change.  In 1932, if Herbert Hoover would have defeated FDR, would that have sped up the establishment of the New Deal?  I don't think so."Jarvis Tyner

The past week's political events that help shape the American body politic.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

Florida special prosecutor Angela  Corey,  said that “the search for justice has brought us to this moment.” Zimmerman turned himself in and was brought Wednesday evening to the Seminole County jail.

Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum held a news conference in his home state of Pennsylvania where he announced that he is leaving the GOP presidential.

Marlins announced that the team has suspended manager Ozzie Guillen for five games effective immediately after his comments on the life work  of the great humanitarian Fidel Castro.

George Zimmerman’s lawyers quit the Trayvon Martin case, saying they haven’t been in touch with their client for two days and  the special prosecutor  announce a decision within 72 hours.

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The Washingtonpost under the headline Obama’s selective memory of Supreme Court history has applied Mr. Herbert Spencer to Health Reform Care law under review by the Supreme

Court.

“Let me be very specific. We have not seen a Court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on an economic issue, like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce — a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner. Right? So we’re going back to the ‘30s, pre-New Deal.President Obama

Obama’s remarks implied that the Supreme Court would be acting in extreme fashion by overturning the health-care law. That isn’t necessarily true. Some would say that invalidating an economic regulation isn’t extraordinary at all. WP

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

The past week's political events that help shape the American body politic.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.