Month: July 2009
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A Plea to National Republicans
Please do not implode this early in the campaign season. We, Democrats in a red State, need your weekly debacles to feed our fervor that we will and can win in 2010. Carry on. This week’s news stories feature the teh awesome Vice President of all time – Dick “I run the CIA my way…
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Georgia’s Mandatory Minimums
The recent outcry over Chris Brown’s probated sentence got me thinking about Georgia’s mandatory minimums. Examples:If you hit someone and cause a bloody nose, swollen lip and contusions, you could be charged with either Battery, a misdemeanor, or Aggravated Battery, a felony, but which requires disfigurement and / or rendering a body part useless. Either…
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Questions I would like to hear Franken ask
The Senate hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor begin this week. One of the witnesses Republicans are calling to testify will be Frank Ricci, the New Haven, Conn., firefighter who filed the anti-discrimination Ricci lawsuit decided recently by the Supreme Court.
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SCLC’s fight for civil rights doesn’t include Gay Americans
Earlier this week I wrote a blog post on how black youths in Philadelphia encountered discrimination while swimming in a local pool. This story outraged me and others, including the mainstream media who normally discount racism still exist in this great country. Of course those who naively believed this country was in a “post-racial” phase…
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Just Roy
Roy Barnes is on the Intertubes and on the YouTubes Website: http://roy2010.com
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Dean defies the stereotypes
Like Al Franken, Howard Dean is one of those progressive figures who seems to drive the bloggers and commentators on the right into screaming fits of madness – to the point where if he observed that the sun rose in the east, Erick Erickson and his cohorts would insist that the sun obviously rises in…