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Racist Ole Miss students riot over Obama win
Just go away. Mississippi is also the state, by the way, in which 46% of Republicans think that inter-racial marriage should be illegal. So let’s not to be too surprised that their children start...
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Top farm subsidy areas overwhelmingly supported Romney
Surprise! Just as the Romney class conveniently forgets that they are recipients of federal giveaways, many farmers also have a convenient memory. They just hate the 47% types of people who can’t get...
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Climate change causing drought in states that don’t believe in climate change
Climate-change-induced drought is wreaking serious havoc across portions of America that don’t believe in climate change. But they sure do believe in the federal government spending billions of...
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Number of working poor families rises by 200,000 in one year
Not that many people in power are paying attention, but the problem of “the working poor” is serious, and growing. Instead of continuing to focus on expensive military toys and free money for Wall...
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The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery
The meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has always been a puzzle. The text reads (my emphasis below): A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the...
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Mississippi “forgot” to abolish slavery
By now you may have heard that on February 7th of this year, 2013, the state of Mississippi officially abolished slavery by adopting the 13th amendment to the Constitution. Here’s the text of the...
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The big hullabaloo yesterday was over Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s suggestion that racism is over. As you can imagine, a lot of folks weren’t too happy to hear that claim, not the least of...
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Five Guys Burgers and Lies
A franchise owner of the well-loved (until now) “Five Guys Burgers and Fries” burger joints says he may raise prices, fire some employees, or cut back their hours in order to allegedly pay for...
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Borat visits the South (video)
Borat tries to buy a slave, and then goes to the rodeo. BORAT: You are slave? MUSEUM GUY IN HISTORIC CLOTHING: I am not, I am a historic interpreter. I am a museum educator. BORAT: Can I buy you?
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Daily Show on southern states thinking they can nullify federal laws they...
The Daily Show looks at southern states that are yet again talking about the nullification, the notion that they can refuse to comply with federal laws that they don’t like. In addition to being...
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Alabama GOP tries to force out College Republican chairwoman for being pro-gay
The Alabama Republican party is working on a measure to slap down the state College Republican chairwoman for applauding the Supreme Court’s recent decision on DOMA. An Alabama Republican Party...
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Please stop blaming the South for the government shutdown (op ed)
As the government shutdown drags on, journalists everywhere, on the left and the right, have raised the level of their rhetoric in search of what they believe to be the appropriate scapegoat for their...
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Southern National Guards tell Hagel to take a hike on gay troop spouse IDs
Apparently not having learned their lesson in the 1860s, a handful of Republican-controlled red-state National Guards are publicly challenging the authority of the Secretary of Defense over the...
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Texas National Guard now openly-discriminating against gay troops
The Texas National Guard, in a major and growing snub to the Obama administration and the US Supreme Court, is refusing to provide federal married-housing benefits to gay National Guard members who are...
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Did Rick Perry cave on gay National Guard benefits? No one seems to know for...
UPDATE: Well, this is getting interesting. Keep in mind that we’ve heard nothing from the Obama administration about the Texas National Guard press release published last night, so it’s anyone’s guess...
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Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia top list of gay-porn watching states
A new study, of sorts, by PornHub shows that the southern US states watch the most gay porn of any region of the country. The research also finds that Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia are the top...
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GOP congressman-wannabe shoots Obamacare because guns
An Alabama (it figures) Republican congressional candidate, Will Brooke, thought it would be a neat campaign stunt to shoot a copy of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. So he did. And failed....
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How minorities are about to cost the GOP the White House, forever
An interesting series of articles from Commentary, the NYT and the Washington Post about the Republican party’s increasing demographic problem, and how it could preclude the Republicans from winning...
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Red states give more to churches, not charities
On Tuesday, The Washington Post’s political blog The Fix declared, “Red states give more to charity. It’s because of religion.” Take that, all you agnostics and atheists. If you were more like the...
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Rick Perry thinks Abe Lincoln was a closet secessionist
In footage released by American Bridge last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry, addressing the Strafford County, New Hampshire GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner, said with a straight face that Abraham Lincoln was,...
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