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Liberals who laugh at the idea that the Confederate flag could mean more than rampant racism need to listen to Charlie Daniels. In an op-ed posted Friday by CNS news, the America country music legend paid tribute first to the people of Charleston, S.C., and his admiration for the victims of the June 17 mass murder that killed nine people at a Bible study class. When I saw the pictures of the people who had been murdered, I made the statement, “I know these people,” which I didn’t mean literally, but figuratively. They were the kind of Christian people I...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country singer Tim McGraw says he wants to run for office someday in his adopted home state of Tennessee _ perhaps for governor or U.S. senator _ and he's getting encouragement from a fellow Democrat, former President Clinton. "I think he's got it," Clinton says of McGraw in an Esquire magazine story that hits newsstands Monday. "The Democrats need candidates whom people can relate to in a personal way, people who understand their lives and their concerns and share their values. And I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending."