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A Thanksgiving Reflection: Deprived, Neglected, Untutored, I Had a Blast.
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThis Thanksgiving I feel thankful for a lot of things, but particularly my unstructured childhood. I was a free-range kid, back before that lifestyle had a name. For years I was ashamed. These days I'm grateful. Thanksgiving in my family meant my mom, sister and I piled into my dad's 1956 charcoal, pink and cream Dodge Lancer and we drove the 180 miles from our home in Dallas to my grandmother's house in Huntsville. There were no seat belts in those days, so my sister and I were free to lounge and make trouble in the back seat. If we got too rambunctious, my dad would say, "Do you want me ...
Deserted Village: Could Wal-Mart Save My Midwestern Hometown?
By James Daubs - Politics Daily"These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled." -- Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" I can't put my finger on what, exactly, happened to my hometown. Or in my hometown. See, there's nothing happening in or to my hometown. I can't isolate one reason for its current state of torpor, even desolation. All I know is that when I left for college in 1976, it . . . I think the word is "bustled." Unlike many small towns in the Midwest, Mount Carmel, Ill., is not built around a courthouse square; rather, it is centered on a long main street -- Market Street -- that leads to and from ...
Obama Meltdown: He Doesn't Get It
By Dave - Politics DailyWell, either he doesn't get it, or he's trying to gloss over the biggest gaffe in his campaign (so far). The gaffe which is a gift to the Hillary campaign, or in the event of a Barack win, will be a continuing gift to the John McCain campaign. David Knowles posted Barack's response to his incredible comments about bitterness in small town America and what that bitterness leads to (religion, guns, anti-trade, and anti-immigrant sentiment). And while his response was typically great Obama Rhetoric, He only really defended calling small town America "bitter". What he didn't defend is saying ...
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