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"Police are still searching for a suspect in a carjacking at Chevy’s restaurant at Bayfair Center on May 22, who used a gun to steal a man’s car, a Chevy." The victim of the carjacking says he was walking into Chevy’s (the Mexican restaurant chain) to pick up food when he saw the suspect’s vehicle circling the parking lot. He came out of the restaurant and got into his 2007 Chevy Impala. The suspect’s vehicle blocked him into his parking space before approaching him and told him to get out of the car, according to police. “Initially I thought I...

The following is a commentary from the Truth and Hope Report (http://www.truthandhope.2truth.com) Weekend update by Democratic Political Dave Screwtape. There's been a great deal of controversy over John Edwards urging people to use Memorial Day commemorations to oppose the War in Iraq. The allegation is that he's politicizing Memorial Day. Well, I say good for him and yes, he may be politicizing Memorial Day, but so what? Republicans and Democrats across the land already hold picnics on Memorial Day. Doesn't that mean the day is already politicized? For those who complain about the politicization of things, I would like to...

The TRUTH about Kwanzaa http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- BLACKS IN AMERICA have suffered an endless series of insults and degradations, the latest of which goes by the name of Kwanzaa. Ron Karenga (aka Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga) invented the seven-day feast (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) in 1966, branding it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of African Americans. According to the official Kwanzaa Web site -- as opposed, say, to the Hallmark Cards Kwanzaa site -- the celebration was designed to foster "conditions that would enhance the revolutionary social change...