Protesters boo Klansmen at Saturday rally in Selmer
The crowd had been waiting since well before the men had put on their robes, before they had placed the white lectern that read “KKK” in the courthouse yard.
Teenaged girls snapped cell phone photos of the men slipping their uniforms out of suit bags. Others sat on the […]
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Ideology and Idiocy
April 7th, 2008 · No Comments
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When Bloggers Meet …
February 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments
This post is several days overdue as the blogger meet-up in question took place on Sunday night. Have I mentioned that I’ve been busy?
Anyway, Sunday night a little over 20 of us (including the odd child) gathered at the Hickory Hollow Olive Garden for a bit of networking and to visit with some special […]
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Racism: Alive and Well In The South
February 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Pastor’s flier used to ‘incite tensions’
The Anti-Defamation League on Monday condemned a flier circulating in Memphis that says U.S. Rep. “Steve Cohen and the Jews Hate Jesus,” saying it “attempts to incite tension” between African-Americans and Jews.
Now, if I remember my Bible lessons, it wasn’t the Jews, per se, who hated Jesus. It was the […]
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Super Tuesday
February 5th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s the big day for a lot of states. If you are of the right leaning persuasion, I would recommend reading this before you head to the poles.
A few highlights:
1. The McCain-Snowe-Dorgan S. 2328, Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2004.:
2. Mccain-Feingold - The infamous assault on the First Amendment primarily and […]
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Well, That Clinches It!
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Another lefty rag, aka newspaper, comes out for Clinton and McCain.
Clinton, McCain best prepared
America faces daunting challenges as the Bush era draws to a close.
Only through strong, credible White House leadership can the United States restore financial security to the middle class, reduce the massive debt load, improve health care, counter the continuing threat of […]
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County Critters
January 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Top county employees receive big increases despite $1.7B debt
Shelby County government may be financially strapped, but that hasn’t stopped top officials in county Mayor A C Wharton’s administration from receiving five-figure salary increases in the past six years — almost $50,000 in some cases, records show.
Yet the murder rate is #1 in the country. There […]
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Nashville Nannies
January 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Agents have seized 31,000 packs of cigarettes along state lines
The state Revenue Department says agents monitoring traffic across state borders have seized more than 31,000 packs of cigarettes since September.
The seizures are part of a heightened enforcement program launched because Tennessee’s cigarette tax is now higher than all neighboring states’.
Tennessee’s tax on each pack of […]
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Fred Thompson
December 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Does anyone else get numerous ‘gimme monies’ from the RNC? Oddly enough, since I quit giving anything to them, they have slowed down a bit. It might also have something to do with the fact I have told them, repeatedly, until they stop acting like Dhimmicrats, they won’t see of dime of my […]
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Merry Christmas! From Me and Mine, To You And Yours!
December 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory […]
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Where’s My Lear?
December 21st, 2007 · No Comments
And my big ol’ honkin’ Hummer, and….hmmm….I’ll think of something else. After all, I’m covered now!
H/T: Real Debate Wisconsin
Cross posted at An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
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