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The only answer you need is, the authentic Cajun music of the "Louisiana Story" Movie (1948). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iR5sC3pgC4. Thompson's music arrangement and his musicology of fine folk, traditional and historical music, are first rate, ranking him with Joaquin Rodrigo and Ottorino Respighi.Thompson replied, "no I'm not" and walked out of the interview on the air.

A new poll carried out in the wake of a far-right scandal in Thuringia has shown impressive gains in support for the Left party and a significant tumble for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in the eastern state. The poll was conducted by infratest dimap and commissioned by the public broadcaster MDR. The CDU in has been accused of colluding with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Thuringia to get a conservative candidate elected state premier, despite the fact that his party — the laissez-faire Free Democrats (FDP) — barely cleared the 5% hurdle to get into Thuringia’s...

Pete Buttigieg slammed President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Mike Bloomberg on Tuesday as he waited for results from New Hampshire's primary. The former mayor of South Bend spent the morning dropping off donuts at polling places and doing TV interviews. He told NBC's 'Today Show' that President Trump can't 'figure out what to do with me.' 'I don’t think he can figure out what to do with me, and that’s fine by me. I’m not that focused on this president’s approach because they always do the same thing. He’s going to find a vulnerability, and if he can’t, he’ll...

VIDEO We already know who the WINNER of the New Hampshire primary is and it is... President Donald Trump! These clips show why no matter who "wins" the New Hampshire primary on the Democrat side it makes no difference as to who the ULTIMATE winner will be.

Bill Gates has reportedly ordered himself a gigantic yacht. According to the The New York Post, the Telegraph reported that Gates had ordered the $644 million Aqua yacht from the Dutch design firm Sinot. However, Sinot told the New York Post no deal has been done just yet. Still, if something is in the works, the yacht sounds absurd. Whether or not Gates ever takes control of Aqua, it’s such a power move to even consider spending $644 million on a boat. I’ve always been obsessed with yachts. I’m not even sure why, but I just think they’re awesome. A...

George Orwell noted the nervousness of people on the left when confronted by those even further to the left. This nervousness stems from leftists’ fear that they will be taken for impure in their own leftism, that their thought and actions don’t go far enough, that they are, finally, not really on the bus. In America during the 1930s, Communists mocked liberals for their weakness, and liberals worried about not measuring up. Hence the phenomenon of the “fellow traveler,” someone who sympathized with the Communist Party but couldn’t bring himself to join it. Orwell’s observation remains in play. In the...

Pangolins carry a 99% identical coronavirus, report Chinese scientists GUANGZHOU, China––Will the Wuhan coronavirus, newly linked to pangolins, save one of the world’s most endangered animals? Headlines over the weekend of February 8-9, 2020 amplified global panic that the number of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus deaths had soared beyond the 2003 toll from severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS], and within another day topped 1,000. But word came almost simultaneously from the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong province, that researchers Shen Yongyi and Xiao Lihua may have positively identified the source of the mysterious coronavirus, known to...

Ensuring the public can find information from authoritative sources is a key aspect of our commitment to serve the public conversation on Twitter. This year, the United States Census Bureau will conduct its decennial Census, deploying resources across the country to ensure an accurate count of people living in the US. Statistics gathered by the Census are used to determine the number of seats each state holds in the U.S. House of Representatives and inform how state, local, and federal lawmakers will allocate billions of dollars in funds to local communities each year for the next decade. Direct engagement with...

Pete Buttigieg addressed a packed crowd of several hundred supporters in the main atrium of Exeter High School on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, asking them to visualize the morning after President Donald Trump had been defeated in the November election. “Who’s ready to put the tweets behind us?” he asked, to cheers.

Fleets of firetrucks can be seen rolling down the streets of Wuhan spraying chemicals in the air. Chinese government-owned newspaper The People’s Daily released video of the “disinfection” of the city of Wuhan featuring fire trucks and platoons of men in hazmat gear roaming the streets and spraying chemicals in the air. The People’s Daily, which is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, posted the video to Twitter. “Full-front disinfection work has started in #Wuhan, an effort to contain the spread of #coronavirus,” the tweet caption read. In the footage, fleets of fire...

Seattle’s City Council on Monday voted to ban some residential evictions during winter months in a 7-0 vote after narrowing the scope of the originally proposed measure. The final, passed version of the bill cut the months covered by the measure from five to three months and limited it to low- and moderate-income tenants, as well as an exemption for landlords with four or fewer housing units, the Seattle Times reported. “This is huge and I think we should be proud of our movement,” said Councilmember Kshama Sawant (D), who sponsored the legislation, although she expressed disappointment with the amendments....

A Columbus man who was considered the last of the surviving Flying Tigers from World War II has died. Frank Losonsky, 99, died Thursday at home from natural causes, his son Chris told the Ledger-Enquirer in a phone interview Monday. No funeral service is planned, he said. According to a 2019 article on the Voice of America website, Losonsky was the last survivor of the Flying Tigers. That’s the nickname of the legendary World War II bombardiers officially called the American Volunteer Group. They were 311 U.S. military service members recruited to help the Chinese Air Force fend off the...

Oh my God, I’ve made a bad impression already,” Dick Cavett says apologetically after I ever-so-gently correct his pronunciation of my name. When I suggest that I should be the one worried about interviewing one of the all-time great interviewers, he’s quick to put me at ease. “You’d better put that aside and out of your mind,” he tells me. “I can’t detect any faults in you so far. I’ve reached the 83-year-old talk show legend by phone at his home in Connecticut just a few days before the new documentary, Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes, is...

KENT, Ohio (WKBN) – Kent State University is finalizing its plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the May 4 shootings that killed four students in 1970. Activist and actress Jane Fonda will be the featured speaker on May 3. The event is free and open to the public, but you will need a ticket to get in. Fonda was there once before for a May 4th memorial in 1974. A number of other events will be held the weekend of May 1-4. Markers will be dedicated to honor the nine students hurt in the National Guard attack. Sandra Scheuer,...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is urging senators to reject efforts to rein in President Trump's ability to take military action against Iran without congressional approval. The Senate is expected to vote this week on a resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that would require Trump to end any military hostilities against Tehran within 30 days. "I will strongly oppose our colleague's effort and urge the Senate to defeat it," McConnell said from the Senate floor. McConnell argued that the Kaine resolution is "blunt and clumsy" and would "severely limit the U.S. military's operational flexibility to defend itself against...

EXETER, NH -- Gwen English was sitting in a coffee shop next to Hillary Clinton in 2008 when Clinton began to tear up in response to a question from a voter during the height of that year’s presidential campaign. English, a retired teacher, loved Clinton. But she contrasted Clinton’s reserve with the more engaging personality of Sen. Amy Klobuchar. English is anxious, like just about every Democratic voter here in the Granite State, about whether her party is on track to unify around a candidate who can defeat President Trump in the general election this fall. “It’s total fear,” English...

... Almost 200 Second Amendment supporters massed on the sidewalk outside Bloomberg’s brand new campaign office with signs and bullhorns to greet the Bloomberg ”Gun Violence Prevention Tour” when it pulled up in the overwhelmingly liberal Northern Virginia enclave of Arlington for an Second Amendment infringement gala. The fly in the anti-gun punchbowl, however, was that our impromptu gun rights rally attendance was two to three times the number of the Bloomberg minions gathered inside. In addition to the VCDL members that mixed in with our Patriot Picket squad, we were also supplemented by the ArfCom Regulars, who made their...

Harrison Ford has gone from trashing America to trashing its president. The actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night to promote his new Disney movie Call of the Wild and called President Donald Trump a “son of a bitch.” Kimmel held up a fake promotional poster showing fake reviews for Ford’s new film. The reviews were attributed to Donald Trump. One of them read, “It was a perfect call,” which alludes to how President Trump described his call last summer with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a call that pretty much sparked the Democrats’ impeachment campaign to oust the president....

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, is now submitting his investigative work on U.S. political corruption in Ukraine to the Department of Justice. Giuliani’s work seems focused on uncovering money laundering, corruption by Joe Biden and his son Hunter and other political elites, and Attorney General William Barr acknowledged Monday that DOJ has set up a vetting process for Giuliani’s information, which the former mayor gained from overseas travel, including a trip to Ukraine with reporter Chanel Rion of One America News. “For that reason, we had established an intake process in the field...

...This is the story of our times—the story of the family, once a dense cluster of many siblings and extended kin, fragmenting into ever smaller and more fragile forms. The initial result of that fragmentation, the nuclear family, didn’t seem so bad. But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued. In many sectors of society, nuclear families fragmented into single-parent families, single-parent families into chaotic families or no families. If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals...