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WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) won the endorsement Wednesday of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who said the White House hopeful "personifies the future of Democratic leadership in our country." Daschle said Obama has a "great capacity to unify our country and inspire a new generation of young Americans, just as I was inspired by the Kennedys and Martin Luther King when I was young." Obama began his term in the Senate after Daschle lost his seat in 2004. But the South Dakotan served in the Senate with several of the other Democratic presidential hopefuls,...

Hit the pause button, drop the remote, and turn your radio down. It's time for another installment of cards and letters across the television/radio desk: Judy Carbone: I just read your article on the "Real Oldies" station, and I am so upset. The powers that be never did their part in promoting this station. Tommy Edwards and Larry Lujack are incredible, and I spend a lot of time laughing out loud while sitting in traffic each day. Please tell me that there is a way that we fans can help save this station. Margaret Suarez: Not again! Every time we...

Of all the stations on Chicago radio's "watch list" (if there were such a list, that is), the one in most critical condition has to be Clear Channel Radio's "Real Oldies" WRLL-AM (1690). Nothing is official, but insiders say it could be only a matter of weeks before Clear Channel bosses pull the plug on the format and a talent lineup that includes such personalities as Larry Lujack, Tommy Edwards, Scotty Brink, Tom Murphy and Ron Smith. Plagued from its inception in 2003 with a substandard signal that barely covers the metropolitan area, "Real Oldies" has languished at the bottom...

Tom Daschle, once the most important Democrat in the Senate, tested a possible appeal to New Hampshire voters Thursday to make him the most important Democrat in 2008. The former three-term senator, who is considering a White House bid, excoriated President Bush in a speech to local New Hampshire Democrats, arguing that the chief executive and his administration "have got to be the most arrogant crowd I ever worked with." Daschle criticized Bush for launching the war in Iraq, secret domestic wiretapping and a national debt that he argued will be passed on to future generations. He complained that the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tom Cruise's faith in Scientology was nurtured at a secretive Southern California desert compound that catered to his needs around the clock, it was reported Saturday. Long before Cruise sprang onto Oprah's couch or blasted Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants, the Hollywood superstar undertook intensive study and counseling at the compound in the late 1980s and early 1990s, current and former Scientologists told the Los Angeles Times. Cruise also trained at the church's better-known facilities, including those in Hollywood, Calif., and Clearwater, Fla. But much of his time was spent at the compound 90 miles east...

Katie Holmes is quitting acting, to become a full time wife to Tom Cruise. The 'Batman Begins' beauty is one of Hollywoods most promising up and coming young stars. But at age 26 she wants to ditch her blossoming film career and devote herself to bringing up the baby they are expecting next year. A pal tells me 'Katie has decided to give up acting altogether. She's been telling friends that she and Tom have decided it is best that she stays at home and brings up their new baby.' 'Her decision is raising a lot of eyebrows in Hollywood....

They came from within: How War of the Worlds anticipated the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard The ominous tagline in early trailers for the alien invasion blockbuster War of the Worlds was "They're Already Here" — but any learned Scientologist could have told you that long ago. As you may have heard, WOTW star Tom Cruise is a 20-year veteran of the Church of Scientology, which reportedly teaches that human beings contain clusters of "body thetans," or spirits, of aliens who died 75 million years ago in an intergalactic purge of overpopulated planets by the evil overlord Xenu. In Scientology-speak,...

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I have a friend who is in a heated thread with a HUGE Daschle supporter who says he is going to "Give him proof" the Daschle is the good guy and Bush is the bad guy!" My friend needs legit dirt on TD - RIGHT AWAY! He has asked for my help and I am asking for yours! PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks!

Daschle floats option to Bush plan He calls for income tax cuts of $300 a person, aid to states, jobless 01/25/2003 Associated Press CLEVELAND - Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle called Friday for $300-a-person income tax cuts and billions in aid to cash-strapped states as part of an alternative to President Bush's economic-stimulus recommendations. Mr. Daschle's proposals also include tax breaks to help small businesses afford health insurance premiums and aid for an estimated 1 million jobless people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits. Mr. Daschle, D-S.D., announced his proposals in a speech before the City Club of Cleveland....

National GOP'ers jumped on the potential post 2004 results bandwagon with a poll to assess the mood.They matched Thune against Daschle and it showed Daschle winning 46-45.It showed Thune easily defeating Rep. Bill Janklow in a primary and defeating potential Democratic House nominee Stephanie Herseth by 10 points.Governor Mike Rounds met with Thune last week, but there was no discussion of a job for him.Thune is now weighing most prominently a consulting job that would keep him in the state.

During Thursday's excursion into broadcast excellence somebody sent me a web link.This is amazing.At Free Republic.com they have done some photo editing-and it's very funny. You've all seen the picture of Michael Jackson dangling his little baby over the lege in Berlin?Well, they've doctored it, with my head on Michael Jackson's body and Dachle's head on the baby being dangled over the ledge of the balcony.Oh yeah this is threatening folks.. (sarcasm button on)

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) expressed concern Thursday about what he called was the "politization" of the coalition against Iraq, including the possibility of voting on a resolution before the November elections. Reacting to President Bush's speech before the UN on the Iraq issue, Daschle said congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle are taking their time to consider what action should be taken. "I don't know that his [Bush's] lack of a time frame necessitated any particular expectation as regard to how we might respond. I think that it's very important for us to be deliberate," he...