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I am sure Tim Russert was a fine fellow, father, husband, son, etc. But he was in the end not as significant as his sendoff implies.
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Blogger’s Note: The national credit crunch and decreases in federal subsidies are putting an increasing number of student lenders out of business. It couldn’t come at a worse time for parents of the Echo Boom generation… kids born around 1990 and later who are pushing out of high school and into colleges.Try getting that second [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): I do not have a deeply spiritual life but sometimes I begin to wonder if there might not indeed be a deity and if the hand of the Almighty might not move on occasion across the land smiting the wicked. I believe that we have seen this of late in the case [...]

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When he came on the scene in the 1950s, the conservative in America was not far removed from the swamp and the lynch mob. Fire-breathing Christians roamed the land. The earth was, indeed, flat. Here be dragons. Buckley made the yahoo and the simpleton swell with pride. Half a century later the conservative movement is [...]

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by Christopher Corbett
Baltimore — (TFN): The American Podiatric Medical Association says that the demand for foot doctors is about to surge over the next six years. This came as quite a surprise to me as I can’t say that I keep up with the noble science of foot doctoring. But I read the alarm they [...]

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"I think the country would be best served if the zoos were closed. Shut them all down. They are expensive, archaic and – no pun intended – bestial. They speak to a time when man was even more primitive than he is today (if such a thing is possible)." — Christopher Corbett
By Christopher Corbett, [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): It's not every day that you turn 44. Accordingly, TFN anchors Krista Das and Laura Cadden set out to make it a memorable event for J. Christoph Amberger. While he is taping his weekly Smackdown, the light goes on and the studio doors open…
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"Groundhog Season culminates in Christmas, which is the really the one day of the year when you don’t mind that you’ve done it all before exactly alike. And it finds its resounding finish on New Year’s Eve." — J. Christoph Amberger
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): Bill Murray is an actor I don’t care [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): December triggers a series of cyclical events that have played out year after year in exactly the same fashion. TFN president J. Christoph Amberger comments on a series of predictable events that are shaping what he calls Groundhog Season.
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"The Christmas letter is a parvenu's marathon of boorish boasting, shameless name-dropping, wild exaggeration, social climbing, fabrication, falsification, and spin doctoring." — Christopher Corbett
by Christopher Corbett
Baltimore — (TFN): You really know that the season of counting your blessings has arrived when the first Christmas letter lands in your mailbox. These annual missives once were [...]

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“Larry King is the master of infotainment. He is the Walter Cronkite of infotainment. And that is a pretty scary thought. He looks old. He looks like a mortician does his makeup. Hell, the man has been on the air for more than half a century and been married seven times! But the man still [...]