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Your host with you again another excursion into media excellence one of those songs from 1971 "Put Your Hand In The Hand"... Way back in the 1980's I found myself on the student news staff eventually being the news director at a university radio station full power serving the big city and beyond. The news staff almost all white with a plurality being Jewish. The music people and public affairs folks almost all black and militant-woke... For me October 7th of last was the time I wanted to recall 50 years since I walked away from the Anti-Semitism of my...

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — The sheriff of Douglas County, Phil Miller, has said he's cutting ties with the A&E network in response to the suspension of "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson. Robertson, the family patriarch, was suspended last week for comments he made to GQ magazine about gays and African-Americans. "It was about a man stating his Christian beliefs without malice or judgment, and losing his job. That's wrong," Miller said....

The knives are out for NEA, NEH, and CPB in right-wing budget offensive Indiana Republican Congressman Mike Pence chairs the Republican Study Committee, which is proposing sweeping cuts to federal social, education, and cultural programs in the name of disaster recovery. A bloc of extreme-right Republicans in the House of Representatives is currently trying to turn the misery of the recent hurricane disasters into their day in the sun. The Republican Study Committee, a legislative service organization chaired by Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican, is shopping a proposal in the House entitled “Operation Offset” that urges sweeping cuts to federal...

wbrc.com, Alabama OPELIKA - Teens and Prison In the 1970s, a film documentary called "Scared Straight" showed kids spending the night in a prison cell to learn what a life of crime could bring them. There weren't any film crews around, but ten Lee County girls got a chance to spend a day at Tutwiler women's prison to learn that lesson for themselves. The girls -- ranging in age from 13 to 17 -- have been in trouble and could be headed for prison. They heard from corrections officers and young inmates about what the locked-up life is like....