1.0 link 155438 <![CDATA[Burris, Race, Religion, And The Senate]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/burris-race-religion-and_b_155438.html "I am now the junior senator from the state of Illinois. . . . Friends, we're going to have to have some powerful prayer. . . . They can't deny what the Lord has ordained."
--Roland Burris, yesterday, speaking from a church pulpit.

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The growing intensity of the rhetoric surrounding Roland Burris, Rod Blagojevich, and Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat reached new heights (or depths, depending on your point of view) this weekend, by both Burris and his supporters. This is...

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