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Today’s Photohunt theme is “Beautiful”

Many of these things have been addressed singularly here previously, but it is nice to see a brief outline of each.

By picking Joe Biden as his runningmate, a man known for the occasional racial gaffe, Noam Scheiber asserts that Obama is sending a subtle messsage to  suspicious whites:

The editorial voice of the City Paper puts Rep. Gary Odom’s call for an independent investigation of the THP’s latest scandal into some context:

How can you tell that racism is still thriving in our country? When you see [bleep] like this, from David Duke:

Why Southerners are coming back to the Democratic Party:

There's an interesting (and unsurprising) Time article about the Clintons' struggle to move on from the Primary loss to Obama.

Toll roads in Knox county appear to be dead for the time being.

Steve Smith is the editor of the The Spokesman-Review. He writes a nostalgic and bittersweet account of what a newspaper used to be.

Here's an interesting story in light of my recent viewing of "Iraq For Sale" about--among other baaaad companies, Blackwater.