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Both fans of yodeling and of the Grand Ole Opry will likely unite on August 2 when 13-year-old cowgirl Phoebe White will guest perform at the hallowed venue with Riders in the Sky. The Kentucky artist will take on a song adapted from the popular animated film, Toy Story 2. White and the Riders will perform the Ranger Doug song, “Phoebe, the Yodeling Cowgirl,” which is an adapted version of the song, “Jessie, the Yodeling Cowgirl,” from the Disney-Pixar animated movie. White, who recently released her new 10-song debut album, UnXpected, has recorded with the Riders In The Sky previously,...

"I called the law on my own kin! Step on me, Pearl!"

Police are hunting a knifeman following a stabbing spree in Munich's central square, next to an underground station...... Munich police said that at least four people have been lightly injured during stabbing......

“Of course, the Gebirgsschüzen (Territorial Marksmen), whom I was only able to hear in the distance, deserve special thanks, because I am an honorary ‘Schütze,’ (marksman) even though I was once a mediocre Schütze." — Pope Benedict XVI, Bavarian Evening, Castel Gandolfo, August 3, 2012. “Now, as we ‘thank you,’ I can only impart my blessing to you, but let us first sing the Angelus together, and if we can the ‘Andachtsjodler’ (a hymn in the form of a yodel).” — Pope Benedict XVI, Last Words in German at the Bavarian Evening. The present pope, we know, is a man...

It seems as though in Austria, the popular yodel is an insult to Muslims. An Austrian court has recently fined a citizen for yodeling while mowing his lawn, according to a report in The Kronen Zeitung newspaper. The citizen, 63-year-old Helmut G., was told by the court that his yodeling offended his next-door Muslim neighbors, who accused him of trying to mock and imitate the call of the Muezzin.

Democrats — at least those seeking the Democratic nomination for president and those who are desperate for money from extremist Left deep pockets — are trying to "out-Liberal" each other on the Alito nomination, even when it is clear a bipartisan majority of senators intend to make the Judge Alito "Justice Alito" in just a few days. John Kerry, after launching the first international filibuster from the slopes of the Swiss Alps with the help of Ted Kennedy, gave a speech earlier on the Senate floor that rivals Kennedy’s 1987 smear of Judge Bork. Kennedy claimed that in “Judge Bork’s...