In a remarkable tour-de-force of non-courage, a Mississippi GOP legislator whose racist remarks got him in hot water with his own fellow Republicans after he was quoted by a newspaper is trying to pass the buck to the reporter who wrote the story. State Rep. Gene Alday, R-Walls, who came under fire [...]
Archive for February 17th, 2015
Mississippi GOP legislator blames his racist remarks on news reporter
Food stamp rogues gallery
Thirty-two people have been arrested in upstate New York for food stamp fraud. Guess how many of them are “lazy blacks”?[...]
Racist Mississippi judge indicted for assaulting disabled black youth
A Mississippi grand jury has indicted Judge Bill Weisenberger for “simple assault on a vulnerable adult,” a felony carrying up to a $1,000 fine or 5 years in prison, or both, for his actions at a flea market on May 8, 2014. In that incident, Eric Rivers, 20, an autistic black youth, wa[...]
$25 million lawsuit against Pasco police alleges “racial animus” against Hispanics
Last week brought America’s latest high-profile police slaying of a minority person, in this case a Hispanic man killed by Pasco, Washington, police — a department whose officers have killed several people in just the past few months. Antonio Zambrano-Montes wasn’t innocent. Distra[...]
“We’re red now,” cop says turn off the police camera
We want to respect our police. Most cops are decent and hard working professionals who protect our communities, and do a job that’s often stressful and sometimes dangerous. But rogue cops abound now, and that’s causing a policing crisis in America. When ordinary law-abiding citizens fear[...]
PRESIDENT ROMNEY: Feisty Ambassador to Russia speaks out:
Ambassador Palin has become a heroine in Russia since she and President Putin went to Siberia last year to hunt the now nearly extinct Siberian Tiger. Showing off the tiger meat, Ambassador Palin said she resolves to “eat more meat,” to “help others make the governments as irrele[...]
Radical Republicans
David Brat .. the TPer who beat out Eric Cantor for Representative form VA has novel ideas abut education: The greatest thinkers in Western civ were not products of education policy. Socrates trained Plato in on a rock and then Plato trained in Aristotle, roughly speaking, on a rock. So, huge fundin[...]