Monday Clips

Deeth News Bureau Open Again

Did some serious slacking over a five day... not weekend, I guess five days is an actual vacation, the first in about forever.

But I'm back at the news desk and here's some clips off the Deeth Wire:

By some measures, Oklahoma is now the reddest state in the nation, with every county crimson, as this young woman laments.

The current GOP's roots may lie not in the conservatism of Barry Goldwater, but in something far darker: the McCarthy era.

South African President Thabo Mbeki is no Mandela and has cost hundreds of thousand of lives in his country -- by his insistence that the HIV virus does not cause AIDS.

Grim so far this AM. Let's lighten up; Malia Obama wants to do her homework at Abe Lincoln's desk. "I'm thinking that will inspire big thoughts."