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Jeremiah Marquez / Associated Press:
Pathbreaking Comedian Richard Pryor Dies — LOS ANGELES - Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, died Saturday. He was 65. — Pryor died shortly before 8 a.m. of a heart attack after being taken to a hospital …
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Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65 — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, has died, his ex-wife said Saturday. He was 65. — Pryor died of a heart attack at his home …
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Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65 — Actor and comic known for caustic wit suffers apparent heart attack — LOS ANGELES - Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood's biggest black stars, died of a heart attack Saturday.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
R.I.P. R.P. — If you would like to have a surreal experience akin to the effects of downing ten shots of cheap tequila, tune in to FoxNews as they eulogize Richard Pryor. Apparently he invented dirty words. (It's going to come as a helluva surprise to Lenny Bruce — not to mention Redd Foxx.)
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Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who challenged LBJ, dies at 89 — WASHINGTON - Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89.
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Washington Post:
Gentle Senator, Presidential Hopeful Empowered U.S. Antiwar Movement — Eugene J. McCarthy, 89, the scholarly and erudite Minnesota senator whose pursuit of the presidency in 1968 galvanized popular opposition to the war in Vietnam and helped drive Lyndon B. Johnson from the White House …
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Credit Card Offers Stacking Up at Homes of the Newly Bankrupt — TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 9 - As one of more than two million Americans who rushed to a courthouse this year to file for bankruptcy before a tough new law took effect, Laura Fogle is glad for her chance at a fresh start.
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10news.com:
Family Upset Over Marine's Body Arriving As Freight — Marine Bodies Sent To Families On Commercial Airliners — SAN DIEGO — There's controversy over how the military is transporting the bodies of service members killed overseas, 10News reported. — A local family said fallen soldiers …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Our New Bestest Buddy ... Joe Lieberman? — In the zero-sum game that has consumed our national politics in general and the Democrats specifically over the last month, Joe Lieberman has arisen as a new prize to be claimed — or shunned. The Washington Post reports on the political damage …
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Jeff Gerth / New York Times:
Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive — The media center in Fayetteville, N.C., would be the envy of any global communications company. — In state of the art studios, producers prepare the daily mix of music and news for the group's radio stations or spots for friendly television outlets.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Down the Memory Hole — FOR THE SECOND TIME IN recent weeks the Department of Defense has denied a request from The Weekly Standard to release unclassified documents recovered in postwar Iraq. These documents apparently reveal, in some detail, activities of Saddam Hussein's regime in the years before the war.
New York Times:
Congressman Adds More Vegetables to Amtrak's Load — WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 - Amtrak certainly knows how to lose money, but the railroad says it can lose less if only it can get out of the business of hauling cars of "premium" freight like perishables behind its cross-country trains.
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dailysouthtown.com:
'Help! Help! My kids are pinned in there!' — Six-year-old Leroy, Ind., boy killed when Southwest plane, car collide — It was a family moment — mom and dad in the front seat, three young sons tucked in the back eating McDonald's goodies. The Indiana family was heading to grandma's house …
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Trouble in Workers' Paradise, Continued — UPDATE by Pajamas Media in Los Angeles — Allegations continued that Chinese authorities were attempting to cover up a massacre of demonstrators in South China by buying the bodies, Associated Press reported, while the government insisted …
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Gateway Pundit, Secular Blasphemy, The Belmont Club, Instapundit.com, BizzyBlog.com and The American Thinker
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Eric / Classical Values:
STEVEN MALCOLM ANDERSON, R.I.P. — I just received the saddest personal news in the history of this blog. (I'm afraid I can't do this subject justice in a post, but I have to write something, awkward and difficult though it is. So bear with me.) — Via an email from his twin brother …
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Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness — The 48-year-old man turned down a job because he feared that a co-worker would be gay. He was upset that gay culture was becoming mainstream and blamed most of his personal, professional and emotional problems on the gay and lesbian movement.
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