June 19th, 2015 - They all laughed
when Ann Coulter predicts Donald Trump will be the GOP Nominee
Frederik "Rik"
Luytjes
In the early 1980s, Rik Luytjes gained two sterling
reputations. One was as an upstanding businessman and pillar of
the community in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The other was as the
most successful cocaine smuggler in U.S. history.
"A Born Again
American" Written by Keith
Carradine
In 2008, as it looked increasingly likely
that America was about to elect its first black president,
Norman Lear and Keith Carradine met at a dinner party one
evening. Carradine picked up a guitar and began playing some
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie songs. Lear mentioned later that
evening that what he saw going on in the country was a "Born
Again American" experience for him.
"There's
a song in that phrase," Carradine said, and a week
later, he'd finished writing it.