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June 30, 2006 - When your solution to everything from foreign policy to immigration and hurricane relief depends on the military, the strain can reach the breaking point. The Associated Press reports:

June 30, 2006 - NPR's Morning Edition aired a wonderful story today about a legendary cultural phenomenon in Texas: the Ice House, a multi-racial meeting ground that once thrived (and still lives) from mid- to south-Texas.

June 30, 2006 - If the Republican Party still has hopes of reaching African American voters, the antics of GOP Republicans to slow down renewal of the Voting Rights Act can't help. As Reuters reports, renewal is likely dead for now:

June 30, 2006 - For a long moment, the Duke Lacrosse case was the national story, bursting from the squalid swamps of Nancy Grace sensationalism to dominate news cycles everywhere. Clearly, the story hit a nerve.

June 29, 2006 - By way of Interstate4Jamming, here's a nice story about Lakeland, FL based Publix Supermarkets:

June 29, 2006 - Speaking in support of his anti-flag burning amendment, Orrin Hatch said from the Senate floor yesterday:

June 28, 2006 - David Sirota has some thoughts on the current debate raging in the U.S. Senate: