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Since my mother died five years ago, I have discovered that I miss her the most in the autumn and during election years. Her birthday is today, and she died on October 10, 2003.

Race42008.com is flummoxed by the AP’s revelation that Rep. Chet Edwards was a finalist for Veep:

CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House of Representatives was poised Tuesday to pass a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow.

The House is poised to pass a resolution that would apologize for slavery and Jim Crow.

Pat Buchanan thinks so:

For, without any visible strategy for victory, Barack is recommending the same course LBJ took after the death of JFK. Johnson bombed North Vietnam in 1964, landed Marines in 1965 and built U.S. forces from 16,000 advisers on Nov. 22, 1963, to 525,000 troops in January of 1969.

Check out my letter to the editor in the Daily News Journal today:

Governor Phil Bredesen foreshadows the general election campaign with a history lesson:

It all started with LBJ:

George Stephanopoulos thinks Hillary Clinton is staying in the race to position herself for a VP spot on Obama’s ticket.

For the first time since I've been following presidential politics, we have a candidate whose name is off-limits. I'm writing, of course, about Barack Hussein Obama. Yes, that's his real name, presumably the one that appears on his birth certificate. It's not something we right-wingers made up.