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FinalCall.com) – Children as young as 11-years-old are targets of military recruiters, who dangle video games, drive flashy SUVs, spin tales of adventure, promise money for college and other pipe dreams and trinkets in a campaign to entice youngsters into military service, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

The infamous Willie Horton ad kept Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis out of the White House in 1988. The same guy who created that ad is up to his old tricks and will again be working for the Republicans.

This is Barack Obama’s house in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Surrounded by the vast ghettos of Chicago’s South Side, the area, built in part by the University of Chicago, is a lefty enclave that is nonetheless the most racially mixed neighborhood in one of the U.S.’s most segregated cities.

Writer and lecturer Tim Wise takes some white female voters to task for their response to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Ear doctors say that the widespread use of MP3 players are causing hearing problems in people at younger and younger ages.

Desperate U.S. soldiers resort to harming themselves to keep from having to return to Iraq.

John McCain’s first wife, Carol, was a tall swimsuit model when he left for Vietnam. After a horrific car accident, she was both shorter and permanently disabled when he returned. McCain would eventually leave her for his current wife Cindy, then 25 and rich.

Although many world observers celebrated Obama’s victory in clinching the Democratic nomination for President, there is still racism overseas. Will it affect a future President Obama?

Pennsylvania, which has traditionally been a ‘blue state’ may pose a problem for Barack Obama down the line. If he can’t win a state full of blue-collar whites, he may not be able to win the White House.

Who should be rocking with Barack Obama in the White House? We’ve done our research and came up with a list of key positions for the Obama presidency.

This year, more than perhaps any in American history, experts say, the role of African-American churches could help decide the election. Just as they helped catapult John F. Kennedy to the presidency nearly a half-century ago, local black ministers already are mobilizing to get out the vote.