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Boomer TV: Would You Believe?....
The TV ZoneWith the big-screen "Get Smart" opening Friday, lets give props to the original -- which coincidentally, took home an Emmy 38 years ago this week as Outstanding Comedy, while Don Adams won for best actor in a comedy. (There are......Tags: Merv Griffin, Sports, Rugby League, Carnegie Hall, Entertainment
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Ruthless Obama will get pass, if he wins
The Swampby Frank James A lot of fallout today the day after Sen. Barack Obama announced that he decide to forgo accepting public financing for his presidential campaign, thus breaking a promise he made that he would accept such money if......Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, White House
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Tribute: Carlin on sports
O, by the WayOver the weekend, comedian George Carlin passed away from heart failure. Carlin is best known for not merely pushing the envelope but shredding it to bits in terms of language and subject matter in his comedy. However, one of his......Tags: George Carlin
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Obama statement: Accepts Jesse's apology
Spin CycleObama's campaign issues a statement on Jesse Jackson's still-unaired crude remark, which Jackson has apologized for: ???As someone who grew up without a father in the home, Senator Obama has spoken and written for many years about the issue of......Tags: Jesse Jackson
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Al Sharpton on responsibility, civil rights
The Swampby Rick Pearson Rev. Al Sharpton says anybody who believes Sen. Barack Obama is speaking down to African Americans by calling for more parental responsibility isn't reflecting the modernization of the civil rights movement in America. Sharpton, who...Tags: Barack Obama, Sports, Elections, Don Imus, Minority Groups
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Tragedy: Bernie Mac Dies
The TV ZoneTalk about the wind getting sucked out of you: Bernie Mac has died. This news comes just about a day after the public relations firm PMK notified the press that he was responding well to treatment and would probably......Tags: Sidney Poitier, Celebrity Parents, Richard Pryor, Matt Damon, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Bill Cosby: Obama has Bush to thank
The Swampby Mark Silva As The Cosby Show celebrates its 25th anniversary this coming Sunday, star Bill Cosby is posed the question: Did the black family that he presented to the American television-viewing audience in the 1980s pave the way for......Tags: Michelle Obama, Jimmy Carter, U.S. Presidential Election (2008), Dick Cheney, James Crowley
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Obama: Ticked off sometimes, not down
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama doesn't get down easily, his wife says, but he does get ticked off. If it doesn't show, Michelle Obama explains, he works at that. "You know, he doesn't get down easily,'' the first lady......Tags: Michelle Obama, Unemployment, Minority Groups, Sarah Palin, Polls
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Garton's e-mail
Who's on Team Gloucester?Here's a copy an e-mail sent yesterday to county employees by County Administrator Brenda Garton in regards to the arrest of Michael Shifflett, the county's director of Department of Housing.From: Garton, Brenda Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:01...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Virginia, Gloucester County, Trials, Sexual Assault
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McIlroy is making mockery of U.S. Open field
Running off at the typewriter. …
It's over, right? The U.S. Open is now the U.S. Closed. Rory McIlroy is torching the course at Congressional and making the rest of the field look like the C-flight at the Stoneybrook West member-guest. McIlroy is...Tags: LeBron James, Shaquille O'Neal, Barry Bonds, Basketball, Football
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Obama should be channeling Bill Cosby
At the risk of being branded a one-trick pony, I launch into this week's column. Last week, in this space, I pondered the self-imposed chains that continue to shackle black America. Today, I revisit that theme. As the father of two, and uncle to, an...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Father's Day, African-American History Month, Black History
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150 years after emancipation, blacks are bound by their own chains
Last Monday night, blacks around the United States flocked to church. They waited on their knees. Their eyes were watching God — and the clock. Awaiting the stroke of midnight. Just as stolen Africans and abolitionists had gathered New Year's...
Tags: Prisons, Television Industry, Abraham Lincoln, Oxygen (tv network), Slavery
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