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The tarnishing of Ron Wilson
19 May 2012, 10:04 pm
Deep Southern roots, ultra conservative politics and stark contradictions have been the defining characteristics of the Anderson County man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of investors out of millions
Mitt Romney 'Not Going To Disagree' With Rick Scott On Drug Testing
16 May 2012, 10:29 pm
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he does not disapprove of Florida Gov. Rick Scott's efforts to drug-test state workers. The former Massachusetts governor declined to say, however, that he is a big fan of the idea.
Clay Aiken Says Gaycists Today Are Like Racists of the Past on Subject of Gay Marriage
14 May 2012, 9:17 am
Clay Aiken wasn’t even out of the closet when he shot to prominence a decade ago on American Idol, though the singer was long the subject of gay rumors before he finally came out of the closet years later. In fact, Clay Aiken is almost like a metaphor for our acceptance of and cultural tolerance [...] Clay Aiken Says Gaycists Today Are Like Racists of the Past on Subject of Gay Marriage is a ...
Peter Dreier: Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa -- Justice vs. Charity
14 May 2012, 8:07 am
On Thursday the Washington National Cathedral dedicated a new stone carving of Rosa Parks. It will be displayed in the Cathedral's Human Rights Porch. Rosa Parks deserves to be in the same human rights pantheon as Bishop Romero and Eleanor Roosevelt. But not Mother Teresa.
Religious belief: How it helps conservatives
10 May 2012, 2:02 pm
Progressives often marvel at how focused, coordinated and aggressive our conservative opposition is. They seem to fall into lockstep and march, building large organizations and executing complex strategies with an astonishing rate of success. We may be smarter, better educated and more reality-based -- but they seem to have a cohesion and a discipline that eludes us. What's going on here? There ...
Nicholas Katzenbach, adviser to JFK and Johnson, dies at age 90
9 May 2012, 8:31 pm
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who helped shape the political history of the 1960s, facing down
segregationists, riding herd on historic civil rights legislation and helping to map Vietnam War strategy as a central player in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died Tuesday, May 8, at his home in Skillman, N.J. He was 90.
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The party of civil rights - MaddowBlog
23 May 2012, 12:32 pm
Democrats have no reason to sweep this history under the rug: they eventually got it right, and dispatched the racists and
segregationists to the GOP, which welcomed them and their racial attitudes. Indeed, the former chairman of the Republican ...
King’s Forgotten Manifesto - New York Times
17 May 2012, 12:46 pm
Indeed, it was the hold of Southern
segregationists on Congressional committee chairmanships that prompted civil rights leaders to put their hope in an executive order rather than legislation. King infused his executive-order campaign with the ...
Why do conservatives hate freedom? - Salon
15 May 2012, 11:08 am
But at the time that conservative support for a color-blind society might have made a difference, the leaders of American conservatism sided with the Southern
segregationists. They claimed they did so, not because of racial prejudice ...
50 Years Ago: The World in 1962 - Atlantic Online
13 May 2012, 6:56 pm
Soviet missile bases discovered in Cuba triggered a crisis that brought the U.S. to the brink of war with the U.S.S.R. Civil rights activists won hard-earned victories against
segregationists in the American South, and John Glenn became the first American ...
