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The GOP has a race problem. White people. Working class whites, who make up half of the Republican voters, are rebelling against the Republican orthodoxies of free trade and trickle down economics that have turned their communities into ghost towns. Shocked by their support of Donald Trump, some elitist conservative thinkers are calling places like Garbutt, NY pockets of misery, welfare fraud and dope addiction. They say let these towns die. Turns out Garbutt is not like that at all.

DETROIT (WJBK) - Will the mayor please stand up and say something? I'm talking about the pathetic spectacle I witnessed Thursday night at an east-side church. Mayor Dave Bing held a town hall meeting, not because he wanted to but because he was required to by law. The church was filled with a posse of cops and laid-off city workers and citizens afraid to walk their own blocks. They let Hizzoner have it, raining down on him with an avalanche of ridicule and humiliation, stuff I am not allowed to repeat here. It must have been a heavy load because...

Looks like the New York Times has another ugly Jayson Blair-like scandal on its hands. This time, the young minority reporter is Charlie LeDuff, a part Native-American, part-Cajun writer, known as a rising star and favorite pet of former executive editor Howell Raines. The hotshot LeDuff is now in hot water over his cribbing of anecdotes from someone else's book about kayaking down the Los Angeles River for his own Page One fluff story about — you guessed it! — kayaking down the Los Angeles River. An embarrassing correction published in the New York Times on Dec. 8 explained: An...

DURHAM — When University of New Hampshire professor Blake Gumprecht read a recent New York Times article about kayaking down the Los Angeles River, the passages struck him as familiar. Too familiar. The story wasn’t just similar to his 1999 book, “The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth,” Gumprecht says, it was, in places, almost identical to pages he had written. So the UNH assistant geography professor fired off an e-mail to Times editor Renee Murawski, alleging reporter Charlie LeDuff had lifted portions of his book for the newspaper article. “What is most striking to me is...