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I rarely criticize conservatives in public, especially those whom I like, but on tonight's Scarborough Country, my buddy, Joe, my favorite non-Fox cable host, dropped the ball. He interviewed Al Franken to discuss the recent and continuous attacks against our troops from the left, most recently from an LA Times columnist who actually had the guts and honesty to come right out and say he doesn't support our troops. Scarborough heaped compliment after compliment after praise on Franken for doing his part, visa vi his USO Tours, to support our troops overseas. Joe went on to say that after all...

Bob Hope: 1903-200307/28/2003By PHILIP WUNTCH / The Dallas Morning News Bob Hope, the vaudeville jokester turned pop-culture giant whose ski-slope profile cast a wry shadow over the 20th century and into the 21st, died late Sunday night, just two months after his 100th birthday. He died late Sunday of pneumonia at his home in Toluca Lake, with his family at his bedside, longtime publicist Ward Grant told the Associated Press on Monday. From vaudeville venues to wartime USO stages, from big-screen Road tales opposite Bing Crosby to small-screen holiday specials opposite Brooke Shields, he kept America chuckling for nearly...