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By Michael Smerconish (from MASTalk.com)
Six years removed from 9/11, I’m appalled that no one seems to care whether we find and kill Osama bin Laden.
How else to explain that there have been seven presidential debates so far – four for the D’s, three for the R’s – and only one question has been asked that touched on [...]

By Ralph King (from King’s Right Site) 
Very, very good meeting last night on the RPCC Platform. We had intended to make a motion to table the platform as soon as the meeting started. Luckily we held off!The rank & file began voicing their opinions for and against various language in the platform. We sat by [...]

By John Rattysack (from the Bright Side of the Road blog) 
 
Barry and I first met 4 or 5 years ago at the bank where he was our GE Mortgage Insurance rep.  There was always a great deal of excitement around the bank when we knew Barry was coming, as he is one of those bigger-than-life people.  [...]

From Kings’s Right Site 
Dear RPCC Central Committee Members,On July 25th the Republican Party of Cuyahoga County will be asking us to vote on a platform as a foundation on which our local party is to build.
In the best interest of our party, I respectfully request that each member vote this platform down. While direction and [...]

By Mark Steyn (from SteynOnline) 
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, is it because Al Gore and a bunch of elderly rockers organized an all-star stadium gala on its behalf? The colossal flopperoo of Live Earth is a heartening reminder that there are some things too ridiculous even for global pop [...]

By Michael Smerconish (from the Philadelphia Inquirer)
The daughter of the shoemaker to King Nicholas Petrovich of Montenegro is on her deathbed. She is 101 years old. She is my grandmother.
Word of Victoria Grovich’s (nee Ivanisevich) imminent passing came to me last week on the same day I reviewed the latest Pew Global Attitudes Project Survey. [...]

by Roger Bundy (from Cleveland Equanimous Philosopher)
11:57 a – Arrive a few mintues ago. Mr. Mulready from Cool Cleveland (CC) is getting thigs set up. Was told that approx 150 people pre-registered for this forum. Will be interesting to see who, how many appear. We are in the auditorium of the Louis Stokes wing of [...]

from Psychobilly Democrat
The folks at Cool Cleveland, MTB, and BFD are hosting a forum tomorrow regarding the proposal from the CuyCo Commissioners to raise taxes without a vote. I can’t make it, which is a shame. This might be the best example of citizen journalism turned activism we’ve seen locally. From an email:
Commune. Communicate. [...]

By Andrew Sullivan (from the Daily Dish) 
He called another man on the Imus show – yes, the Imus show – a faggot. It took Richardson a year to apologize. And it was in Spanish:
Almost exactly one year before Imus was to lose his show for using a slur to describe the Rutger’s women’s basketball team, [...]

By Joseph (from Plunderbund)
Nigger.
There. I said it.
THAT is the so-called N-Word that the NAACP symbolically buried (complete with a wooden coffin full of black roses) this past weekend at their 98th annual convention in Detroit.
THAT is the word that no one wants to say. Newspapers won’t print it. TV reporters won’t say it. Hell, [...]