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By TIM RUTTEN For nearly a century, the Anti-Defamation League has stared unflinchingly into the dark corners of America's social psyche -- the places where combustible tendencies such as hatred and paranoia pool and, sometimes, burst into flame.

Old-style Democrat Michael Lind asks a timely question in a Salon essay entitled Can populism be liberal? There remains the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, represented more in Congress than in Obama's White House -- and more in the House than in the Senate, a dully complacent millionaires' club.

LUBBOCK, TX Firefighters from New Deal and Shallowater responded to a grass fire Wednesday afternoon that threatened two homes.

In a word, street cred pure and simple. But the entire narrative was to us-and remains-entirely one of artifice.

It's all so terribly sad. To listen to liberals and the spin election results, you'd think all was well with the world.

A Lubbock man died Thursday after his SUV flipped end over end in a one-vehicle crash in north Lubbock County.

A one-car rollover that happened near the airport Thursday afternoon has turned fatal.

Recorded in 1931, Bing Crosby's version of "Dancing in the Dark," Morris Dickstein points out, evoked not only a bleak ballroom, but "our darkest feelings, the existential limits of the human condition, and the ongoing troubles of the Great Depression." And yet, the idea that Americans could "face the music together" became an article of faith of ...

William ''Bill'' Fletcher Shepherd, Jr. Avalanche-Journal Friday, October 23, 2009 Story last updated at 10/23/2009 - 2:38 pm William "Bill" Fletcher Shepherd, Jr., 67, of Lubbock, departed this life on Saturday, Oct.

Six local agencies battle a grassfire north of Lubbock. The fire broke out about three miles north of the Lubbock County line on Farm to Market 2825.

Around the country, its box office receipts were second only to "Gone With the Wind," which - along with "The Wizard of Oz," "Goodbye, Mr.

A small aircraft has landed safely north of Lubbock. Just after 12:30 p.m., the pilot of a small plane contacted air traffic controllers at the Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, saying he was out of fuel and a crash landing was imminent.

Something is rotten in the United States today, and it's the activist Supreme Court.

Mr. Weisenmiller is a Florida-based reporter for Inter Press Service and a contributor of Florida-based stories to The Economist.

Firefighters from at least four volunteer departments are working to extinguish multiple fires north of New Deal.

A wheelchair-bound President Franklin Roosevelt holds his black Scottie Fala while talking to Ruthie Bie, granddaughter of the caretakers of the Hill Top Cottage at his Hyde Park, N.Y. home in Feb.

The girl, normally bubbly and outgoing, sobbed as a teacher walked her to the nurse's office.

Priority One Financial Services , A a finance and insurance managed services provider serving the marine and RV industry, experienced the largest growth of its new dealer partners in the history of the company during the first half of 2009.

Testimony is scheduled to begin today in the trial of a New Deal man accused of raping a young girl in 2006.

Lubbock protesters can try to block booze in court but won't have their case heard with the help of state alcohol regulators.