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I read something interesting in The Chronicles of Oklahoma about my great great great grandfather John Cook Robinson... He traveled to Richmond in 1863 during the Civil War to deliver a letter to Jefferson Davis about Confederate General Douglas H. Cooper and the Chickasaws ( Read more... )

For the Democratic Super Tuesday Primaries... here are the results:

Bernie Sanders won in four states:

Vermont 86%
Minnesota 62%
Colorado 59%
Oklahoma 52%

Hillary Clinton won in seven states:

Alabama 78%
Georgia 71%
Arkansas 66%
Tennessee 66%
Texas 65%
Virginia 64%
Massachusetts 50%

I like to keep track of the primary results, so here they are from earlier in the week ( Read more... )

Big backlog of songs for my Song HoF. Here's one: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson ( Read more... )

I found some ancestors on my mother's side who were married second cousins (ie they shared a pair of great grandparents ( Read more... )

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I'm a bit down that Obama didn't do better.  He did OK, but Clinton came out ahead in the big states like New York and California...  I would've liked him to have won one of those.  The delegates are awarded proportionally in most places, tho, instead of winner take all... so they both came out about even at the end of the night.  Bummed that Obama ( Read more... )

It seems like lots of states bumped forward their primary dates this year in order to try to have a bigger say in the election process early on.  The first two contests were still Iowa and New Hampshire, tho, like every year.

Why do Iowa and New Hampshire always get to go first ?  Not fair...     so I've been thinking of what they should do...

I ( Read more... )

From Time.com:


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