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  • Barbra Streisand Taps Paul McCartney for ‘Truly Special’ Duet of ‘My Valentine’

    05/16/2025 9:25:30 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 39 replies
    Billboard ^ | 05/16/2025 | Glenn Rowley
    The cover will be featured on the Broadway legend's upcoming duets album The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2.Barbra Streisand has recruited Paul McCartney to join forces for a new version of his 2012 single “My Valentine,” which was released Friday (May 16) via Columbia Records. “What if it rained? We didn’t care/ He said that someday soon the sun was gonna shine/ And he was right, this love of mine/ My valentine,” Babs coos on the opening verse before Sir Paul, takes over to sing, “As days and nights would pass me by/ I’d tell myself that I was...
  • Two Democrats Disavow Dean's Jab at GOP

    06/06/2005 4:59:00 PM PDT · by Tennessean4Bush · 35 replies · 1,092+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 6/6/2005 | Mike Allen and Alan Cooperman
    Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) and former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) distanced themselves over the weekend from remarks by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who is facing criticism for the pace of the party's fundraising. Dean, who inspired a passionate following when he ran for president in 2003-04 and showed the potential of Internet fundraising, has been as unpredictable with his public remarks since becoming party chairman in mid-February as his Republican counterpart, Ken Mehlman, has been on message.
  • Disagreeing Doesn't Mean We're Un-American [barf alert]

    09/20/2003 9:21:12 AM PDT · by Eala · 21 replies · 403+ views
    KVI 570 AM (by way of KOMO) ^ | September 19, 2003 | Ken Schram
    SEATTLE - So, it's not just me. Read Joel Connelly's column in Friday's Seattle P-I. Read Ellen Goodman's column in the Seattle Times Friday. Or, just give my friend Mikey a call. Mikey stopped me yesterday to comment on how viciously strident conservative broadcasters have become. How Limbaugh, Hanity [SIC]and O'Reilly, for example, figure that if we don't support President Bush in EVERY instance, on EVERY issue, at ALL times, then we are un-American. That's it's not enough to merely mistrust liberals or moderates, we must disdain them, or we are un-American. That if we don't let right-wing anally-conservative broadcasters...