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Miami rapper Rick Ross’s highly anticipated third album, “Deeper than Rap,” is, frankly, not that deep at all. In fact, in today’s pool of rap material, the CD would sit right on the surface. While Ross is generally entertaining and enjoyable, listeners who scrutinize each song will be unsuccessful in their searcch for what sets the album apart. Laden with trends such as predictable guest cameos and treble-heavy synthesized tunes, Ross’s album may as well be titled...
...Governor Rick Perry didn't actually endorse secession when he spoke at an antitax tea party at Austin city hall. But you could forgive people for misunderstanding, since he's been railing against an overreaching Federal Government, rejected stimulus spending and quoted Sam Houston's declaration that "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression." Perry, who faces a tight re-election campaign against that notorious Washington insider "Kay Bailout Hutchinson," observed that he thought the U.S. was still a "great union," but "if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what...
...really cut out the riffraff readers. Then again, getting the magazine and reading it are not at all the same thing. (Plus, isn't this what breeds resentment against the wealthy? They who need it least get stuff - information, perks, taxpayer bailouts - for free, while everyone else pays.) (Read "Rick Warren's Magazine: A Publishing Leap of Faith...
...Hannity, Beck, and Cavuto were not the only high-profile participants at the tea parties; speakers included such partisan figures as former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner, Republican Louisiana Senator David Vitter, Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry, and former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey. FreedomWorks, a group founded by Armey, was one of the largest sponsors of the day’s events...
...candidate is spending. However, if the protesters were protesting Obama’s profligate spending, then what connection is there to the Boston Tea Party at all? Furthermore, according to Karl Rove, “If [the tea party movement] has a father it is CNBC’s Rick Santelli, who called for holding a tea party in Chicago on July 4.” Yet Santelli was condemning homeowner bailouts—neither direct taxes nor spending...