This year’s education scandal saw parents shelling out megabucks to gain college admittance for their children. Federal prosecutors have charged [...]
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NORTH CAROLINA: Town Cancels Christmas Parade for Fear of Confederate Flag Protesters
In a tearful address to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘“GOP”’
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Nov24
In the weeks since the election, the general consensus has been that Republicans got hammered. From Mitt Romney’s Election Day collapse to the party’s failure to take back the Senate and prevent ballot initiatives legalizing same-sex marriage, Republicans took big hits up and down the ballot. But the results actually weren’t all bad for the GOP. AP reporter David […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Dec14
GOP is Moving, Obama Should, Too
on December 14th, 2012 at 12:29 amPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
It’s puzzling how much the definitions of “compromise” and “balance” have changed since the November election. The message out of the White House, dutifully repeated by the press corps, is that the GOP’s stubborn refusal to compromise on President Barack Obama’s balanced approach to attacking the budget deficit is what’s holding up a deal to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan08
Fiscal Cliff Vote Shows Dixie's Clout
on January 8th, 2013 at 10:21 pmPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
When the last key vote was taken in the out-going 112th Congress, a marked sectional divide was made clear. Non-Southern GOPers voted in favor of the compromise by 70 to 67. Among the Republicans from the South, however, the vote was overwhelmingly against the deal, only 15 for to 84 against. While the conservative nature of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan17
Politically speaking, we live by caricature. Particularly in the age of satellite TV news and Internet fulmination, the temptation is to melodrama. So I wasn’t terribly surprised to read a recent article in the online magazine Salon arguing that “even though it’s a truism of American public discourse that the Civil War never ended, it’s also literally […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Feb20
Republicans continue to argue about whether the party needs to take steps to prevent the next Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Todd Akin and Ken Buck, as well as how it might do so. Those inept and seriously flawed candidates lost races that other Republicans would have won easily. Now, American Crossroads, the brainchild of Karl Rove and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Feb21
Can Republicans Keep Relying on Whites?
on February 21st, 2013 at 10:19 amPosted In: Archive, Southern Partisan
“This is the last time anyone will try to do this,” said a Republican strategist during the 2012 campaign. He meant that was the last time that a Republican presidential candidate would focus largely on white voters in order to win the White House. This single-minded focus on the white vote was proved to be wholly inadequate, because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mar12
Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama’s war powers. Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in the absence of an imminent threat, have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oct03
Here’s a big news alert: House Republicans oppose Obamacare. That’s why they’ve shut the government down. No, doing so won’t actually stop Obamacare. To a great extent, the program is on autopilot. The Republicans shut down the government, but the exchanges are open for business. The last time the Republicans shut down the government, they […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Lure of the South: Confederate Yankees
Albert H. Newall died at Fort Delaware POW camp. The town fathers of Danville, Iowa didn’t want to bury his body in the local cemetery.JIM WILLIAMS/RANDEL BAILEY
At least 76 Iowans fought for the [...]
Racism in University Culture
Syracuse University
To hear some Syracuse University students and alumni of color tell it, the headline-grabbing events on campus over the past two weeks were a long time coming.
They say while other colleges and universities across [...]