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Remembering Two Civil Rights Champions

Remembering Two Civil Rights Champions

June marks the anniversary of the deaths of two civil rights giants who helped to change this country – Robert Kennedy and Medgar Evers.

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Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant Says Working Moms To Blame For Downfall of Education (VIDEO)

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant Says Working Moms To Blame For Downfall of Education (VIDEO)

According to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R) education started to go down hill once women started working to support their families. During a Washington Post Live event Gov. Bryant was asked, “How did America get so mediocre?” regarding education. He responded, “I’m gonna get in trouble if I… you want [...]

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Letters Containing Ricin Poison Sent To Bloomberg And Gun Control Group Director

Michael Bloomberg is one of two who received letters containing ricin, apparently in retaliation for their taking steps toward greater gun control. @M.Keyt

It appears as though a gun nut decided he didn’t like what these men were saying so he took it upon himself to try to kill them with the deadly ricin.

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Conservative Mississippi Seeks To Toss Women In Prison For Miscarriages

Miscarriages in Mississippi could get you jailed;@MSN

Miscarriages happen naturally all the time. Punishing women for that is the kind of thinking that belongs in the Middle Ages, not 21st century America.

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These Young Ladies Objected To Forced Proselytizing At School Assembly

These Young Ladies Objected To Forced Proselytizing At School Assembly

These are two amazing young ladies. They are standing up for what this country is supposed to be about, rejecting the religious assembly in their school.

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Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses Itself, Grants Stay Of Execution After DOJ Intervention

Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses Itself, Grants Stay Of Execution After DOJ Intervention

On Tuesday, Mississippi came within a whisper of executing a man who has been pleading for DNA testing of previously untested physical evidence.

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Mississippi School Forces Students To Listen To Christian Lecture, Teachers Block Exits

It seemed only appropriate to Pennsylvania Representative Mark Cohen to commemorate a SCOTUS decision on separation of church and state with a bill to make the whole month of June “Freedom from Religion Month.” Image @ACLU

When you have to hold school children captive to promote your religious views, maybe you should rethink your religion.

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Who IS Paul Kevin Curtis? Eight Things You Can Learn About The Ricin Suspect From Facebook (VIDEO)

Photo from the Kevin Curtis Live fan page. https://www.facebook.com/1stelvisguy

The man arrested for the ricin letters is a gun owner, musician, conspiracy theorist, Elvis impersonator … and a Democrat?

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Mississippi Man Arrested By Federal Agents For Ricin Scare (VIDEO)

Image from wall.alphacoders.com.

Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, MS was arrested in his home, and may go to trial by Wednesday.

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Mississippi Republicans Foiled By Federal Judge In Attempt To Close State’s Last Abortion Provider

Mississippi Republicans Foiled By Federal Judge In Attempt To Close State’s Last Abortion Provider

A federal judge in Mississippi has issued a temporary order to prevent the state’s sole remaining abortion provider from being closed.

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April Is Confederate Revisionist History Month

Nah, this wasn't that bad. We fed them, didn't we?!

To those that say slavery wasn’t all that bad and, in fact, was GOOD for African Americans, I can only say this: ‘How ’bout YOU take a turn in the fields wearing chains and THEN tell us how it was?’

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Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Forcing Public Schools To Give Students Open Forum To Push Religious Views On Others

Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Forcing Public Schools To Give Students Open Forum To Push Religious Views On Others

The law dictates that school administrators interrupt the business of educating our kids to allow students to openly preach religious beliefs regardless of what other students may or may not believe.

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Fattest State In Nation Passes Bill To Prevent ‘Government Intervention’ In What And How They Eat

Mississippi’s obesity rate highest in the nation at 34.9%; image @PewterReport

Despite hope that people WOULD manage their own health without interference, they aren’t. That’s costing anyone paying taxes a whole lot of hard-earned dollars.

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Personhood USA Pushes Another Personhood Ballot Measure In Mississippi

Personhood USA Pushes Another Personhood Ballot Measure In Mississippi

The people of Mississippi just can’t seem to convince Personhood USA to take no for an answer.

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Two-Year-Old Child Cured Of HIV, First Recorded Case

Two-Year-Old Child Cured Of HIV, First Recorded Case

The child’s mother was HIV-positive, and the child, was born with the autoimmune disease as well. Dr. Deborah Persaud made the announcement of the cure.

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Jon Stewart Apology Shows A Humility Missing In The Mainstream Media (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart Apology Shows A Humility Missing In The Mainstream Media (VIDEO)

How often do the mainstream media misinform or outright lie? How many of them apologize or correct the record for the misinformation and lies?

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Alabama GOP Rep Claims A Baby Is The Largest Organ In A Woman’s Body

Alabama GOP Rep Claims A Baby Is The Largest Organ In A Woman’s Body

Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin has apparently never taken biology, doesn’t understand the issues and doesn’t care about constitutional rights. Why yes, she IS a Republican. How did you know?

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THIS JUST IN – Mississippi Has FINALLY Abolished Slavery

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter;  @Wikipedia

Mississippi came up with an asterisk next to its name, with the notation that because ‘the state never officially notified the US Archivist, the ratification is not official.’

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Confederate Flag ‘Mistakenly’ Raised Over Mississippi Supreme Court

Confederate Flag ‘Mistakenly’ Raised Over Mississippi Supreme Court

At any rate, the correct flag is back up now but for two glorious hours, the South rose again!

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Sees The Light On Obamacare Medicaid Funding

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Sees The Light On Obamacare Medicaid Funding

It must have been hard for Brewer to say that the ACA had been upheld by the Supreme Court and ‘…is not going anywhere, at least not for the time being.’

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