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Jack Brooks dies at 89

Jack Brooks died Tuesday night at Baptist Hospital of Beaumont after a sudden illness, according to a statement from the Jefferson County Sheriff#39;s Department. Brooks, who would have turned 90 on Dec. 18, was surrounded by family when he died, Deputy Rod Carroll said. Jack Brooks, who spent 42 years in Congress representing his Southeast Texas district and was in the Dallas motorcade in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has died. He was 89. Brooks was among the last link

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Talking Ants-on-Crucifix Art, NYT’s Frank Rich Grieves ‘Homophobia Is at Most a Misdemeanor’ in D.C.

Frank Rich’s Sunday column for the New York Times, “ Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian ,” on the removal of a video from the “Hide/Seek” show of gay artists sponsored by the federally funded museum, was even more melodramatically offended (and offensive to Christian conservatives) than Arts critic Holland Cotter’s Saturday anguish . After a video that included an 11-second clip of ants crawling over a crucifix