President Obama addressed the U.S. Military Academy’s graduating class at West Point, announcing his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan

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"Let's change the system and talk about what the possibilities are. I'm telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor. They would say I'll paint your house.Susie "Chicken" Lowden

A political illusion: Blanche Lincoln

Blanche Lincoln's outside agitators(the Trade Unions and others from out side of Arkansas theory of campaign is as outdated today as was 1960s Birmingham.

King's presence in Birmingham - over against the objection against "outside agitators" Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states.

I cannot be unconcerned about what happens in Birmingham.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.

Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider within it bounds.

I don't want to be associated with those people, but I also don't want to limit their speech in any way in the sense that we tolerate boorish and uncivilized behavior because that's one of the things freedom requires." Rand Paul Racist

The Kentucky GOP senate primary has been called for Rand Paul.

Arkansas's democratic senate race,Pennsylvania U.S. Senate primary Arlen Specter and Rep. Joe Sestak

and PA-12 are still on going

U.S. Senate Democratic primary debate was hosted by the Clinton School with Gov. Bill Halter, Senator Blanche Lincoln and businessman D.C. Morrison, the moderator was Steve Barnes.

Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters in Arkansas shows Lincoln receiving between 29%

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Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker at the Susan B. Anthony List Celebration of Life Breakfast in Washington DC today.

The List is a Rightwing front group.

Susan B. Anthony was a American Socialist.

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 30, 1917.

"Lena Horne was a pioneering ground breaker, making inroads into a world that had never before been explored by African-American women, and she did it on her own terms,"Our nation and the world has lost one of the great artistic icons of the 20th century";Quincy Jones.

The Kentucky Republican Party primary election for the seat held by retiring Senator Jim Bunning is May 18, 2010. Senate candidates Trey Grayson, Gurley Martin, Rand Paul, ...