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Damn! I thought I wrote that "you deserve a Pulitzer" part. If I didn't, I certainly meant to. But as we know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But yes, you are quite deserving of one...absolutely.

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Stephen King says the road to hell is paved with adverbs.

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Love the comments by Jon Rappoport and Mark Bailey. And love the comments by the readers and supporters, especially the one by Ro Dann.

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Today's Pulitzers are collaborator trophies not righteous prizes anymore.

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Ohhhh, if i was only younger .....

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From today’s LATimes … Whatever happened to the 1960s’ antiwar movement that I never heard about?

“Pete McCloskey, antiwar candidate who took on Nixon, dies at 96”

By Steve Chawkins and Hailey Branson-Potts May 8, 2024 Updated 8:45 PM PT

Rep. Pete McCloskey, in brown suit and blue tie, sits in front of bookshelves.

Former Rep. Pete McCloskey, a California Republican, is shown at his Redwood City law office in 2006. He died Wednesday at 96. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press)

<< When Pete McCloskey challenged President Nixon for the Republican nomination in 1972, his defeat was nothing short of stunning. Only one of the 1,348 delegates at the Miami convention voted for McCloskey, and nobody gave a speech on his behalf.

<< Running to protest the war in Vietnam, the California congressman never expected to win, but he had no idea his short-lived campaign would cost him so many friends. Outside a basement meeting room at the Fontainebleau Hotel, someone said he must be the loneliest man in town, and he agreed ... >>

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2024-05-08/pete-mccloskey-nixon-vietnam-dead

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