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Sticky Situations
Mark Levin to the rescue. Obama can't distance himself from Wright.
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THE SKITTLES AFFAIR
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Give props to legal eagle and radio host
Mark
Levin
. At the opening of his show Wednesday, he
highlighted the plight of New Haven, Conn., eighth grader
Michael Sheridan
, an honor student and school vice
president who was suspended and stripped of his honors for buying a
bag of Skittles candies from a classmate.
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Levin gave out the phone number of the spokesperson for the New Haven school district, but asked his listeners to be civilized about the calling. The civilized part was easy. Getting through was another matter. Within ten minutes of the number’s being given out, the New Haven school district’s phone system crashed, as did its website.
Within an hour of that, the wheels were already in motion to clear Sheridan’s name and restore his and the other student’s good standing.
p> THE WRIGHT STUFF br> Before Sen. Barack Obama announced his presidential ambitions, according to a former Obama campaign adviser, advisers sought to distance their man from his Chicago church, the Trinity United Church of Christ, and its controversial pastor, Rev. Dr.
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