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Why won't Barack Obama release his college transcripts? What secrets is he hiding? Affirmative action? Poor grades? Suspect courses? Obama owes the American people a detailed explanation and document dump. Martin says there is a "black hole" in Obama's life that needs to be explained. Barack Obama and William Ayers: PART TWO The mysterious Mr. Obama BARACK OBAMA AND WILLIAM AYERS: DID THEY MEET AT COLUMBIA? WHY THE SECRECY ABOUT OBAMA'S COLLEGE RECORDS? Barack Obama had the wrong calling. Instead of being a "community organizer" he should have joined the CIA. Obama knows how to cover his tracks. He could...

Hold your (native) tongue! English embarrasses Obama By Michael Graham Thursday, July 10, 2008 Michael Graham hosts a talk show on 96.9 WTKK. Embarrassed again. First it was Michelle Obama, who had never been proud of American democracy until her husband’s electoral success. Now Sen. Barack Obama says his fellow Americans are “embarrassing” him. Why? Because we don’t speak enough French. “It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe, and all we can say is, ‘merci beaucoup,’ ” Obama told supporters on Tuesday. Just...

CBS News projects Republican Sen. John McCain has clinched the Republican nomination for president. Click here for the state-by-state tally. McCain will win Republican primaries Tuesday in Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island, CBS News projects. McCain's last Republican rival, Mike Huckabee, dropped out of the race after the results came in. "The most important race begins," McCain said. "It's a very humbling thing, and I say that with all sincerity." McCain will travel to the White House tomorrow where he will receive the endorsement of President Bush. The president and McCain will have lunch and then appear together in...

Madison Wisconsin Roughly 600 people gathered at the Capitol Theater in Madison's downtown Overture Center yesterday to listen to Michelle Obama make a pitch for her husband's presidential bid. They were treated to a revealing glimpse into the mind of the candidate's wife. By now one passage from her speech has received much attention. She said: For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction. And...

Syracuse (WSYR-TV) – It’s not often that Catholic churches turn into rock concerts, but that’s what’s been happening Wednesdays at St. Michael’s on Onondaga Hill. Wednesday nights are revived thanks to a man who says kids relate to an MTV-style church. Justin Fatica moved to Syracuse about a year ago with a challenge: to inspire Middle and High Schoolers to care about God and each other. One day he wants to transplant the pews in stadium seating. “I told people that and they laughed at me,” he says, “Even my bosses were like, you're going to get hundreds of kids...

Filmmaker Oliver Stone blasted President Bush Thursday, saying he has "set America back 10 years." Stone added that he is "ashamed for my country" over the war in Iraq and the U.S. policies in response to the attacks of Sept. 11. "We have destroyed the world in the name of security," Stone told journalists at the San Sebastian International Film Festival prior to a screening of his latest movie, "World Trade Center." The film tells the true story of the survival and rescue of two policemen who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11,...

Liberal Democrats are so upset with Hillary Clinton's waffling on the Iraq war that some are now saying they're "ashamed" of her. The Daily Kos - the political web site widely read by the party's base - is urging Democrats to move beyond Mrs. Clinton and her husband, declaring: "Shame on the Democratic Party if they ever nominate her" for president. The scathing editorial, written by Kos contributor "Trifecta," states outright: "More than anything else, I am ashamed of Hillary Clinton." "When you look dispassionately at some of the things [Bill and Hillary] are capable of, it should leave one...

Ask the average Christian, "Are you ashamed of Jesus?" and he will more than likely adamantly answer, "Of course not. He's my Lord and Savior." This unashamed boldness to proclaim Christ is seen in the abundance of "Real men love Jesus" and other T-shirts that clearly identify the wearer as belonging to Jesus. Every Sunday millions faithfully attend churches that exalt the name of Jesus. There are more "fish" on cars than in the Atlantic Ocean. Gospel music resonates with love for Jesus, and even has the accolades of the secular music industry. Christ-exalting television and radio daily fill the...

1) KERRY EX-WIFE ASSAILS ANNULMENT PROCESS Published on April 10, 1997 Author(s): Frank Phillips, Globe Staff Kerry's former wife, Julia Thorne, says she received what she considers a coldly-worded letter in November from a church official notifying her that the senator was seeking an annulment of their 12-year marriage, which ended in

Daily News (New York) October 24, 1999, Sunday ARNOLD TALKS TOUGH TO THE GOP BYLINE: BY GEORGE RUSH AND JOANNA MOLLOY WITH MARCUS BARAM and MARC S MALKIN Arnold Schwarzenegger is breaking ranks with his fellow Republicans. The action star is still embarrassed by how the GOP handled President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, which he says was nothing more than a "human failure." "I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period," he says in November's George magazine. "Instead of devoting all this energy and all these hearings to how we're going to solve the problems of...

Grief-stricken and ashamed, France comes home from holiday and reclaims her dead (Filed: 31/08/2003) Kim Willsher reports from 'Icebox Avenue' in Paris where bodies of the victims from the recent heatwave are being stored as the nation looks for somebody to blame It was difficult to say whether it was colder inside or outside the vast emergency morgue where French families finally came to claim their forgotten dead, two weeks after the heatwave that killed more than 11,000 people. Stung by criticism from the government and from their president, Jacques Chirac, that they had gone on holiday or just failed...

To those of you that are ashamed to be an American and/or no longer consider yourself to be an American: I take you at your word. Since you no longer consider yourself to be an American, I would strongly recommend that you show enought intestinal fortitude to no longer accept the benefits of being an American. Do the right thing and quit your job, abandon your home and leave our shores at the earliest possible time. Renounce your citizenship while outside of our borders and promise never to return to sully our shores. Frankly, I question your integrity and resolve...