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Today's newspaper from 100 years ago fully digitized. (22 pgs)

For years, President Obama has not minced words about labeling as "genocide" the deaths of Armenians more than 90 years ago during the demise of the Ottoman Empire. Nor have Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Biden. All three regularly signed letters to President George W. Bush demanding that he recognize "the mass slaughter of Armenians as genocide" and saying that such an act "would constitute a proud, irrefutable and groundbreaking chapter in U.S. diplomatic history." During last year's presidential campaign, Obama repeatedly insisted that, as president, he would "recognize the Armenian genocide." "An official policy that...

Today: June 01, 2006 at 7:11:2 PDT Panel: N.C. Should Pay for 1898 Race Riot By MIKE BAKER ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A state-appointed commission is urging North Carolina to provide reparations for the 1898 racial violence that sparked an exodus of more than 2,000 black residents from Wilmington. The 500-page report that was produced after six years of study also said the violence, which killed as many as 60 people, was not a spontaneous riot but rather the nation's only recorded coup d'etat. "There is no amount of money that can repair what happened years ago and...

I don't know if this was posted before. I used the search but nothing came up. Sports weasel Jim Rome (who is this guy?) gets smart with Jim Everett and is warned many times. It's hilarious. http://www.big-boys.com/articles/jimeverett.html Some people were saying it was staged but I don't know. Moderator, if this is the 100th time this has been posted, kindly delete, Thank you.