A toast! To this midsummer wine roundup

I’ve been tasting so many notable wines lately that I thought I’d depart from my usual format and tell you, in brief, about some of my favorites whites and rosés. What unites these wines is that they are all slightly off the beaten path, from albariño to viognier and quite a few in between.

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Polls: Less-educated whites hurt Obama

A CLINTON ADVANTAGE OVER OBAMA IN NOVEMBER, THOUGH MCCAIN DOES BEST OF ALL

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Obama's appeal to working-class whites faltering, polls show

Barack Obama's problem winning votes from working-class whites is showing no sign of going away, and their impression of him is getting worse.

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Whites under siege hunker down in Zimbabwe election crisis

With his 28-year grip on power slipping, President Robert Mugabe's government has again lashed out at Zimbabwe's white community, calling his black opponents tools of former colonial master Britain and stoking anger against the nation's whites.

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This video of past Obama-McCain presidential race is now history, but we must never forget our history because what we decided yesterday in America is why we're involved in the socialist vs. democratic decisions of today and tomorrow.

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The Under-rated Progress of America

On another site this week a poster asked the question, "After 47 years of poor and rural white Americans being loyal to the Republican Party and helping them elect 5 Republican Presidents what have poor whites gotten from the Republican Party". An interesting question.

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Of course Obama never had the support of whites like Joe Wilson, a solid son of the South who served as an aide to segregationist Strom Thurmond and who publicly doubted and derided Thurmond's biracial daughter, Essie Mae, when she went public about her dad's identity.

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Honesty Poll: If your son or daughter was dating outside of their own race, how would you feel?

We have seen it in the movies and we see it in our towns. You go to the store and you see a white woman with her two obviously bi-racial children. You see a white woman and a black man having dinner together.

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Swine flu was four times more likely to send blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than whites, according to a study in Chicago that offers one of the first looks at how the virus has affected different racial groups.

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Daily Kos/Research 2000 has released a new poll of Americans on which of the three major cable news channels they watch and trust.

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Truth Or Consequences

Obama is trying to wiggle out of the "acted stupidly" fiasco. He isn't having much success at this point, and I believe has reinforced racism in this country. Pew released a poll on Thursday, and it doesn't put Obama in a good light.

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect" that denied blacks the same opportunities as whites when the country was founded.

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Appearing on Fox News, Kristan Hawkins, Executive Director of Students For Life, explained how the Obama health care plan would kill her cute little white baby "Gunner" and how babies in Britain actually die while waiting in long lines for doctors.

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Sharks in the water

A black man in a white mans world? Lets call the kettle black, and the emperor wears no cloths!

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Senator Jeff Sessions took a strong stance on hate crime today—in a way that only an unabashedly bigoted lawmaker could.

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Nearly 36% of black Americans are obese — much more than other major racial or ethnic groups — and that gap exists in most states, a new federal study finds. About 29% of Hispanics and 24% of whites are obese, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

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Comedian Dave Chappelle had a fondness for the word "@!$%#." He used it liberally in his comedy bits, even extending the racial slur to non-black people. It became a catch all handle for any and everyone. It was just an expression for him and it was one that got laughs.

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Even when they get identical medical treatment, black Americans with breast, ovarian and prostate cancer tend to die earlier than patients of other races, a finding that suggests biological or genetic factors may play an important role.

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Over the past two weeks, Americans struggled to make sense of tragic shootings that seemed disconnected at first glance. Anti-Semite James Von Brunn killed Stephen T. Johns, a black security guard at the Holocaust Museum.

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On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence.

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To stem the tide of hate crimes in the country, a civil rights organization has joined forces with a prominent Jewish group to support fighting hate crimes.

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WASHINGTON — The same Homeland Security Department office that categorized veterans as potential terrorists issued an earlier report that defined dozens of "extremists" ranging from black power activists to abortion foes.

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No Such Thing as "Reverse Racism"

Not going to be a terribly long article I just want to point out Reverse Racism doesnt exist. I mean the term is used alot but there really is no such thing. There is only racism.

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Black patients with lung cancer are less likely than white patients to receive recommended chemotherapy and surgery, a new study finds.

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With Ms. Maureen Dowd Peeling Back The First-Layer...What Pray Tell Is To Follow?

Maureen Dowd's Op-Ed, "Blue Eyed Greed?", in today's nytimes.com speaks out on the Blue-Eyed, Blond-Haired, White(see pinkish)-Skinned phenomenon which runs America--and once colonized the World(!).

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The NAACP is accusing Wells Fargo and HSBC of forcing blacks into subprime mortgages while whites with identical qualifications got lower rates.

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Once again, I am astouned at the amount of time people will spend on the internet looking for their boogey man to blame for our economic crisis. Evidently President Obama is not enough of a scapegoat; Nancy Pelosi doesn't quite fit the bill either.

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The young men set up camp by a shed on the Etheredge family's citrus farm just as Zimbabwe's new unity government was being sworn in last month.

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Holder's Statements True or False

So many people have stated opinions here without knowing how truly ignorant they are on this subject. Most of the problems the black community in the United States faces can be directly related to the progression of race relations since blacks were first brought to this country.

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