I'm not sure if it is a coincidence, but just as Amare Stoudemire is heading to the most Jewish city outside of Israel as a free agent, he's exploring some maternal Jewish roots in a Holy Land trip. Did those roots lead him to the Knicks? It will at least endear him to a large constituency in the Big Apple.
{Update 11PM-According to ESPN's Marc Stein, his Judaism interest is of long standing.}
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Lake Wales, FL most famous native son reminded me of some off Google hits I got on Charisma magazine. Contrary to some false postings of some, it's based in Lake Mary on the north side of Orlando, not my old teaching grounds of Lake Wales well to the south of The Attractions.
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I'm not sure what to think of Lindsey Graham other than being something of an opportunist. After playing the RINO card (or at least over-generous to the White House) in supporting Kagan for the Supremes, he gets out his inner Tancredo and calls for a constitutional amendment taking away automatic citizenship for folks born here.
At least he knows that it would take a constitutional amendment, which is more than a lot of folks who want to past state laws to do so, since citizen-at-birth for people in the US is built into the Constitution. Given the long-shot nature of getting such a amendment through either Congress with 2/3rd in each chamber and past 38 states, it seems more like he's covering his right flank with some immigration-hawk red meat.
That's surprising since he's been one of moderate Republicans on immigration, causing Rush and others to pronounce his last name Grahamnesty. Watch for the spikes while you straddle that fence, Lindsey.
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Speaking of Tortilla Curtain Tom, he's running for Colorado Governor, as a Constitution Party candidate; lest the Peanut Gallery forget, that's a hard paleocon-right party. That's both good news and bad news. It's good news in that he's abandoned the GOP and his virulently ethnocentric-heading-towards-racist views don't sully the Republican brand anymore. The bad news is that he might take 5% or so of the vote with him and make it hard for the Republican nominee to win in a tight race.
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