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Haley Barbour's Affection for the White Supremacist Citizens' Council — Andrew Ferguson's profile of Haley Barbour reveals that the guy is dangerously ignorant about the history of race in his state: … Fortunately, it's actually possible to look at the archives of the Citizens Council newspaper published right in Mississippi.
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Barbour Spokesman: Mississippi Gov. Is Not Racist — I just spoke with Dan Turner, the official spokesman for Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), who responded in strong terms to criticism of Barbour's recent praise for the segregationist Citizens Council groups of the Civil Rights era.
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Haley Barbour's Account Of Civil Rights Era In Mississippi Assailed By NAACP, Historians — What's Your Reaction: … WASHINGTON — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has set off a firestorm of controversy over his comments on the civil rights era in his hometown of Yazoo City …
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National Review, Yglesias, Weigel, The Politico, Wonkette, The Atlantic Online and Oliver Willis
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Now All Racists Are Violent? — Oh, brother - Matt Yglesias takes it upon himself to teach a bit of Mississipi history to Gov. Haley Barbour, whose family has been in Mississipi for a mere five generations. — In a Weekly Standard profile Gov. Barbour credited the local Citizens Council …
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Majority In Mississippi, alicublog and Instapundit
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The watermelon thing — Race is a hard issue for older conservative politicians from the Deep South seeking national office. The roots of Southern Republicanism are in the segregationist split from the Democratic Party, and so there's no presumption of innocence, and no second chance, as Trent Lott learned.
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Balloon Juice and Democracy in America
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Discussing Civil Rights Era, a Governor Is Criticized
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TPMDC
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Respectable Means for Unrespectable Ends
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Eschaton, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
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Barbour doesn't remember Civil Rights era being ‘that bad’
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Ben Smith's Blog, Salon, FrumForum and The Mahablog
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Yazoo City Citizens' Council Was a White Supremacist Organization
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Weigel, Salon, The New Republic, Washington Post, New York Magazine and Firedoglake
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GOP senators concede arms treaty will secure enough votes to pass — Republican senators say privately they expect the Senate to ratify the New START treaty this week, which would hand President Obama his third major victory of the lame-duck session. — GOP senators — including those who plan …
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Mother Jones, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Hill, Daily Kos, The Greenroom, National Review, democracyarsenal.org, FrumForum, Outside the Beltway and The Politico
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Scott Brown to support New START treaty
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The Democratic Daily, Eunomia and The Page
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Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality — Tuesday Betrayal Assured — What's Your Reaction: — Late Monday, a majority of the FCC has indicated that they're going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule. — According to all reports, the rule …
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Computerworld and The Agonist
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F.C.C. Poised to Pass Net Neutrality Order — Updated The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission appears to have the votes he needs to pass a framework for net neutrality rules. — Net neutrality — which broadly speaking is an effort to ensure open access to Web sites and online services …
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Law Blog, Post Tech, Blue Wave News, Gawker and Truthdig, more at Techmeme »
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Gov. Chris Christie commutes sentence of man convicted of having guns in N.J. illegally — TRENTON — Brian Aitken, who was convicted of illegally possessing two handguns that he had legally purchased in Colorado, will be spending Christmas out of prison. — Gov. Chris Christie commuted …
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The Agitator
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Chris Christie commutes gun sentence of Brian Aitken
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Philly.com, TigerHawk and Don Surber
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60 Minutes' one-sided, GOP-friendly report on state budgets
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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, AFSCME, RedState, Crooks and Liars, Open Left and Daily Kos
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Poll: Obama rebounding — President Barack Obama may be staging a comeback in the eyes of the American people, a new poll suggests. — In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, 48 percent of Americans say they approve of how Obama is handling his job, while 48 percent disapprove.
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CNN, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, American Glob and Swampland
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CNN Poll: Three-quarters approve of new tax cut law
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Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh, Taegan Goddard's … and Weigel
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Chris Christie's Pepsi problem — In 1975, Pepsi unleashed “the Pepsi Challenge,” a blind taste test where subjects threw back an ounce of each beverage and reported back on their favorite. Their favorite was Pepsi. — You already know what happened next: Coca-Cola developed a more Pepsi-like product called “New Coke.”
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AmSpecBlog and Das Krapital
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The Culture War Ain't What It Used to Be. — Jonathan Bernstein makes an excellent point about the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell: … With the possible exception of John McCain, pretty much every conservative knew they were going to lose this argument eventually.
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National Review and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Peter King: 'I'm Willing To' Be Called A Bigot If That's What It Takes …
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Mother Jones, Wonkette, Weasel Zippers, Washington Monthly and Newsday
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My Token Moment of Outreach to the Religious Right — Ross Douthat: … I don't spend a lot of time agreeing with the Christian right about things, but the whining about the secularization of Christmas is a point I sympathize with. If Christmas were more properly religious …
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Hit & Run, Eschaton, Balloon Juice and New York Times
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Janet Napolitano: We're Working “24/7, 364″ To Keep The American People Safe — Ya gotta wonder which day America's anti-terror forces are kicking their feet up with a book and maybe a nap, instead of, you know, “keeping the American people safe?” — On ABC's World News tonight …
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Hot Air, Israel Matzav and Michelle Malkin
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Nina Totenberg: ‘I Was At - Forgive the Expression - a Christmas Party...’ — “I was at - forgive the expression - a Christmas party,” NPR reporter Nina Totenberg interjected on Inside Washington in the weekend's oddest cautionary separation from a common description for a common event …
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Conservatives growing uncomfortable with GOP blockade of 9/11 health bill — With Senate Democrats upping the pressure for passage of the bill giving health benefits to sickened 9/11 responders, it's going to get increasingly hard for GOP Senators to maintain their opposition.
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Swampland, Examiner, The Democratic Daily, Indecision Forever, Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, George's Bottom Line and TPMDC
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The Effect of Falling Home Prices on Small Business Borrowing — Small businesses continue to report problems obtaining the financing they need. Because small business owners may rely heavily on the value of their homes to finance their businesses (through mortgages or home equity lines) …
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Economist's View and The Atlantic Online
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No endgame on Hill as Christmas nears — 'I hope we don't have to do that this year.' | There's still no clear endgame in sight as Democrats struggle to close out the lame-duck session of Congress in time for Christmas. — The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is in limbo …
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Republicans Start Teaching Members How to Obey the Constitution — Earlier today, some Hill staffers attended the first of four staggered meetings on how to write a new clause into legislation that explains why, exactly, the legislation is constitutional. This was a big Tea Party demand …
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A plain blog about politics
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Omnibus Libertarian Reply Post — I'm not sure how much interest you all have in following my running debates with the libertarian world, so I'm trying to wrap a couple of these threads up here in one place. — A while ago, Will Wilkinson argued that the fact that people like Peter Orszag …
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Ross Douthat, Das Krapital, The Atlantic Online, Balloon Juice, National Review and Hit & Run