Bob McCarty Writes

While reading an Associated Press report this morning about events that took place at the Bluegrass Ball Monday night, I found one important detail omitted from the report were as telling as the ones included.
The missing detail in the piece by Laurie Kellman was the one that would have explained how and where former heavyweight [...]

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A controversial photo (right) that captured Barack Obama sitting alone in a room, barren except for a framed photo of champion boxer Muhammad Ali upon the wall behind him, has been pulled from the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s web site.
In a post on this blog 11 months ago, I described the photo this way:
On the [...]

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Philadelphia Daily News contributor Fatimah Ali appears to be trying to scare the nation into voting for the Democratic Party ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In an article published today, she predicts a John McCain victory in November will result in “a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, [...]

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Now that Barack Obama seems to have secured the Democratic Party presidential nomination, I decided it an appropriate time to revisit the message(s) delivered by a controversial photograph (below) published in a BMW post Oct. 16, 2007.

I found the photo above as the eighth of 11 available for viewing at the Barack Obama web site [...]

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While Monday marks the 44th anniversary of the first heavyweight boxing match between Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay), it’s a photo from their May 25, 1965, rematch that has generated a great deal of interest on this blog and should have — but, unfortunately, has not — generated at least [...]

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