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Sat, 04/11/2023 - 01:30
Be as excited about expanding freedom Anand Giridharadas presents a video conversation about what inpired “The Persuaders” at The Ink : A year from now, America will face a defining choice between authoritarianism and freedom, hatred and love, exclusion and inclusion, and, as of now, it’s a dead heat. It shouldn’t be. It doesn’t have to be. Early in the conversation, Giridharadas says: In a moment in American life in which the contest is not small government versus big government, blue versus red, left versus right, high taxes versus low taxes, in which the contest is really pro-democracy versus anti-democracy, some of us versus all of us … it was a dead heat. And sometimes we do well in the dead heat. And that means 49-46. A couple states more than that, and sometimes we lose the dead heat. But as a writer, as opposed to being a campaigner who has to eke out these narrow victories, I have the luxury of stepping back a little bit and saying, hold on.
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Sat, 04/11/2023 - 00:00
But it’s a start Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko pointed to this introductory ad from a candidate running for Congress in Arkansas. Yeah, on first glance this ad from retired colonel Marcus Jones is good. Then again (from 2022): During the 2010 senatorial primary in North Carolina, Democrat Cal Cunningham said to my face that the DSCC told him his Bronze Star would trump anything the right wing could throw at him. My first thought was, “And you believed them?” My second was, “Does John Kerry ring a bell?” At the Democratic State Executive Committee meeting in Durham Saturday, one delegate rolled her eyes at Senate candidate Cheri Beasley’s TV ads as the bland products of talentless consultants. “She’s going to lose.” Former N.C. Chief Justice Beasley did in 2020 and 2022. Cunningham famously lost a second bid for Senate in 2020. Another retired colonel ran for Congress here in WNC and lost to Madison Cawthorn. Having a military background may get you a foot in the door with swing voters but won’t prevent them from slamming it on your foot. Post by @adamparkhomenko View on Threads Good luck, colonel.
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Sat, 04/11/2023 - 00:00

To help celebrate our twenty-fifth year of being on the information superhighway, we have reached out to some of our favorite former columnists for check-ins and updates. Today’s returning columnist, Chris White, was one of the winners of our first-ever Column Contest in 2009. For Chris White Answers Profound Questions About the Presidents, he posed tough questions about our former leaders and then wrote hilarious (and historically accurate) responses to them. We’re happy to welcome Chris back to the to the site with a brand-new installment.

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Fri, 03/11/2023 - 23:59

Lowkey catches up with Palestine Action founder Huda Ammori to discuss the revelations in The Guardian of Israeli Embassy intervention in Palestine Action court cases. They also examine Huda's upcoming court case and the possibility of going to prison for shutting down the Israeli war machine in Britain.

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Fri, 03/11/2023 - 23:00

As America’s Got Lettuce ends its run, it’s the perfect time to look back at the contestant performances and judge reactions that made it the world’s top-rated show for thirty-seven consecutive seasons—and reminded us that, through it all, America does got lettuce.

When the Mean Judge couldn’t help admitting, “You, ma’am, have got lettuce” to Lisa Cabinet.
As Lisa Cabinet stood on stage nervously cradling a head of lettuce, none of us watching could be confident that she would be judged to got lettuce. But the Mean Judge proclaimed that she did, indeed, got lettuce, and we all stood up and cheered loudly, in the studio audience and at home. She had got that lettuce, for sure.

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Fri, 03/11/2023 - 15:30

LOCAL youth radio station 104.1 CHYFM announces that sisters Amber and Zoe’s The A to Z of Everything will broadcast their last show on Wednesday 8 November from 4 to 6pm. “Amber and Zoe have been with the station for nearly four years,” station Manager Angie Vaughan told News Of The Area. Advertise with News...

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Fri, 03/11/2023 - 14:59

THE master plans for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk and Arc Rainforest Centre are now on public exhibition. People can view the printed copies of the draft master plan at the Dorrigo Rainforest Centre (142 Dome Road, Dorrigo) and the National Parks and Wildlife Service Coffs Coast office (4/32 Edgar Street, Coffs Harbour). Advertise with...

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Fri, 03/11/2023 - 14:45

THE town of Dorrigo is buzzing after hosting the 21st Folk and Bluegrass Festival. The three-day event featured concerts, workshops, dances, children’s events and jamming, with musicians travelling from as far as New Zealand, Canada and the US. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us...

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Fri, 03/11/2023 - 14:21

EPHEMERAL art and concrete poetry are the focus of Artists in the Garden’s November gathering. True to its original purpose, the diversity of art and the talent of local artists continues to be celebrated at the final Artists in the Garden (AITG) event of 2023 on Sunday 5 November at Coffs’ Botanic Garden from 12-noon...

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