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"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you," Pericles once said.

The Helen Hocker Center for the Performing Arts will begin its 2012 season in patriotic fashion with "1776," the musical about signing of the Declaration of Independence.

President Hill is a section of Eastport that bears the names of 12 American presidents; 14 if you count John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, plus Teddy Roosevelt and his cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist.

But the GOP's latest crusade against access to Birth Control, will probably only drive a wedge between themselves and their future ambitions for power.

Barry Landau of New York City admitted to taking documents from the Maryland Historical Society and conspiring with his assistant to steal documents from that institution and others in the Northeast with the intention of selling them.

The road is low, the field is weak, and the future is bleak. Just three things to consider after yet another primary.

An Oscar-nominated actress has received a promotion to series regular on Showtime's "The Big C," reports TVLine.com . Gabourey Sidibe, who plays Andrea Jackson on the program, will be on the show full time when it returns for its third season.

The road is low, the field is weak and the future is bleak. Just three things to consider after yet another primary.

Brion McClanahan holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of South Carolina.

Paul Giamatti won the SAG Award for male actor in a television movie or miniseries on Sunday for his role in HBO's "Too Big to Fail." Giamatti plays Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, who, among others, was charged with overseeing the financial crisis of 2008.

Airs Saturday at 6AM on 93.9 FM and NJPR; Saturday at 2PM on AM 820; and Sunday at 8PM on AM 820 and NJPR Democracy is one of those rubbery words.

The identity of the first president to deliver a State of the Union address before Congress probably won't surprise anyone - George Washington.

Not all State of the Union addresses -- either in whole or in part -- have been memorable, effective in promoting the president's policies, or game-changing in some other way.