Burt Constable
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Happy 'Baby Daddy Day' -- if test says you ARE the fatherJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Nothing says "Happy Father's Day" like a warning that you might not be your kid's dad. "For fathers all across the county, June 15th will be a special day to celebrate t...
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Race, gender, celebrity play roles in R. Kelly porn trialJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - What if that girl used, abused and urinated upon as a sex toy in that graphic tape shown at the R. Kelly child pornography trial had been a 13-year-old, naïve, white gir...
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Fuzzy math+tax cut+health care=$9 trillion debtJun 11, 2008 11:00 pm - I'm old enough to remember when gas sold for $1.42 a gallon, and our federal government spent $223 billion of our surplus paying down our national debt for the third str...
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Hottest fans debatable, but Cubs beat Sox in music tributesJun 09, 2008 11:00 pm - The first-place Cubs have the best record in all of baseball. The first-place White Sox have baseball's biggest divisional lead. The question of which team has the hotte...
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Public art inspires even vandals, tramps and thievesJun 06, 2008 11:00 pm - In the mythological world that inspired suburban artist Patricia Brutchin, her winged statue would have come to life and soared from the annual Fine Art Show in St. Char...
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45 years after 'dream', we wake to fierce urgency of nowJun 04, 2008 11:00 pm - On Aug. 28, 1963, a 34-year-old black preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. overcame fear and hatred and violence and jail and dogs and water hoses and nightsticks to st...
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Vaudeville revival troupe might last longer than VaudevilleJun 02, 2008 11:00 pm - The notes Lindsay Fischer's mom sneaks into her school lunch aren't the typical syrupy messages of pride and love meant for a third-grader. But Lindsay isn't necessarily...
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In search of rare prey -- man watching 'Sex and the City'May 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Trying to blend in with middle school teachers among a herd of kids waiting to see that "Indiana Jones" movie, I lie in wait silently near the concession stand, hoping t...
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Going green on short trips may become par for the courseMay 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Like many of you, I spent much of the long holiday weekend on the road -- driving 546 miles in all on a trip to and around Indiana. My family of five loaded into our hyb...
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Patriotic ConnectVETS charity rises above politicsMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - In an emotional and fervently contested election year when a controversial war can divide a nation and challenge definitions of patriotism, that subject just hasn't come...