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Oh, Mississippi. I try, you know, I really try not to stereotype. But Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, when you have some Critter named Bubba gloating about the prospect of women impaling themselves with coathangers in the name of morality, you make it really, really difficult. Background on this story-in case you haven't noticed, Mississippi state government has been taken over by a crop of reac...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - 5:10 p.m. - 7 clicks 
The last day of Haley Barbour governorship, Barbour pardon over 200 inmates, some were in prison on felony charges. Many people in Mississippi were outraged over Barbour decision to release so many inmates with violent histories. Well, one of the men pardon was arrested for dui resulting in a homicide. http://www.reuters.com/... ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Tue 4:28 p.m. - 14 clicks
So sayeth one Mississippi lawmaker named Bubba. For real. Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter (R) said that it’s OK for women to have coat hanger abortions because it’s for a greater good. Yep. You read that right. So what if some women die or are scarred for life. Serves the trollops right for getting knocked up all by themselves right? If I didn't already have a migraine, this would gi...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Tue 1:49 p.m. - 13 clicks
In the wake of her state's vote to ban marriage equality last week, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue caused quite a stir when she declared "We look like Mississippi." In response, Mississippi's Republican chief executive Phil Bryant call Perdue's remark "disappointing" and warned "I think she'll regret that after she's had some time to reflect on it." If so, that regret will pa...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Tue 9:29 a.m. - 13 clicks
I am not a lawyer, but I read The Fogbow (h/t to SueBD To the delight or consternation of birthers, anti-birthers, and Obots everywhere, Obama's legal team of Samuel Begley (Mississippi Lawyer) and Scott, The Teppernator™, Tepper (Specialist in understanding Orlylaw ™ and birthers) have entered on the record both the Lng Form Birth Certificate and the Certificate of live birth. In The U...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - May 4 - 3 clicks
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant As you may know, the Republican-dominated Mississippi legislature passed and the Republican governor has signed a bill specifically designed to shut down the state's last remaining clinic that performs abortions. Meaning women's rights to privacy and choice will be snatched away unless they're affluent enough to get to a state where a legal medical procedur...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Apr 25
Interesting story in the May issue of Harper's , about the rebuilding of the Jefferson Davis "Presidential Library" in Biloxi, Mississippi, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Many interesting tidbits in the story, including about the movement by the Sons of Confederate Veterans to produce a commemorative license plate for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the slave trader who became a founding m...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Apr 23
The University of Southern Mississippi's Oral History program is one of the best in the nation. When I was an undergrad, and then a grad, in the history department, I had the pleasure of working closely with a number of faculty who'd been involved in the oral history program since its inception, and when I checked my Facebook feed today, I've never wanted to be "back home" more. If you w...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Apr 23
You really have to hand it to Orly Taitz for being persistent. Late on Friday, she filed a civil RICO suit against President Obama in Mississippi state court. Also included as defendants are the Obama campaign, Nancy Pelosi (in her capacity as chairwoman of the 2008 Dem convention) and the Mississippi Democratic Party. Taitz alleges that after Joe Arpaio pronounced Obama's birth ce...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Apr 15
"This legislation is an important step in strengthening abortion regulations and protecting the health and safety of women," Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced recently. Women's health and safety are important, we can all agree. So how is Governor Bryant attempting to strengthen them? By promising to sign into law a bill requiring doctors who perform abortions to be board certified and...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Apr 6
Jackson Women's Health Organization The forced-birther law now on Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant's desk awaiting his eager signature will probably close the state's only abortion clinic. But it won't end abortion there. We know from history that desperate women will get abortions however they can, self-administered, or from someone—skilled or not, for free or a price—willing to do it for the...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Apr 6
Figures that I'd find out just when the state is about to impose new regulations designed to shut it down. Although the governor claims to be working to protect women's health, he can't help but let his real goal slip out. As if closing down all abortion providers in the entire state is beneficial to women's health. ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Apr 5
By Elena Lacayo, Immigration Field Coordinator, NCLR It appears some of Mississippi’s lawmakers are showing neighborly love in the worst way possible–by attempting to push through a copy of Alabama’s HB 56 in their own legislature. Like its widely reviled predecessor, Mississippi’s HB 488 is designed to make living conditions so unbearable for immigrants that they have no choice but to upr...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 29
Gasoline pump, Naples Italy, March 11, 2012 photo, la Republica A March 11, 2012 front page story in the Italian daily, la Republica, detailed a new record high for gasoline prices in Naples, Italy. While drivers were wailing about gasoline being $3.58 a gallon here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Neapolitans were upset over regular gasoline being priced at what woul...
The iHandbill - Mar 24
Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morning Results : AL , MS , HI 8:14 PM PT (Steve Singiser): We are sure you were wondering which "some dude" emerged in Mississippi for the right to take on Republican Sen. Roger Wicker. His name is … well … Al Gore . Obviously, not the Al Gore, but a local Democratic party chair and army...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morning Results : AL , MS , HI 7:47 PM PT (David Nir): FOX is calling Mississippi for Santorum. 7:50 PM PT (David Nir): And now CNN has calls MS for Santo as well. Quite the night! 7:52 PM PT (David Nir): 58% for Bonner (AL-01), 57% for Bachus (AL-06), 57% for Nunnelee (MS-01)...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Oh Mittens, you are a Loser. Not just any loser, but a (likely) THIRD-place loser - twice! Alabama is already called. Mississippi looks closer, but its basically a two-way race for first between the not-Mitts: Fecal Lube and Angry Little Attack Muffin. When the dust settles its going to be two third place finishes for old Mittens. Damn you choked down all of those grits for nothi...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morning Results : AL , MS , HI 5:25 PM PT : Note, Drudge already declared that Mitt Romney would win both Alabama and Mississippi tonight . Won't happen in Alabama, and I'm hoping we can laugh at him about Mississippi as well. On an unrelated note, Mississippi is my favorite state to type. ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Blah blah blah, Newt Gingrich is a loser, and tonight we'll find out how much of a loser Republicans think he is, too. I'll be following the Mississippi, Alabama, and Hawaii presidential elections, along with congressional primaries in Alabama and Mississippi that appear competitive. Polls are all over the place, but suffice it to say I wouldn't be surprised if any 2 of Romney, Santorum,...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Supporters listen to Rick Santorum in Huntsville, Alabama (Billy Weeks/Reuters) Given the early exit polls , you'd be justified in thinking voters in Alabama and Mississippi were headed to a revival rather than election. Around 8 in 10 Mississippians participating in Tuesday's contest were white evangelical or born-again Christians, the largest share measured in any state so far. Those ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Today is the primary in Alabama and Mississippi, and voters there will decide on more than just the Republican nominee for President. The AL-01 House seat will be decided, and voters will have the chance to defeat the most corrupt member of Congress (according to Judicial Watch ) Spencer Bachus. This article is a cross-post from Watching the House . AL-06 - Incumbent Spencer Bachus (R) fac...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
In this installment of our "primary highways" series, we look at the states of Mississippi and Alabama . In some ways, this is a particularly challenging edition, as I have never personally visited either of the states - in fact they are among only five remaining states I have yet to visit (Kansas, which held its causes on Saturday, is another of the five). So we will do the best ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Yes, I know, I know... there are thrilling primary battles being waged this evening in the Coastal Plain, and we should all be on the edge of our seats waiting to see what transpires. I'd love to stay up and watch, but I need to turn in early tonight to catch a flight tomorrow, so let me save you all some time with this pre-blogging of the results: Victories will be inconclusive. Nobody w...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Republicans have seen the future and it is in Mississippi. But the GOP's Magnolia State crystal ball has little to do with whether today's primary shows that Mitt Romney's cheesy grit eating sealed his nomination, ends Newt Gingrich's viability as a "credible candidate" or even aborts Rick Santorum's White House dream altogether. Instead, the state's union-busting right to work l...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
Rep. Steven Palazzo (MS-04) has a massive edge in the money race to defend his seat, which he wrested from Democrat Gene Taylor in 2010. According to the Biloxi Sun-Herald , he has over $300,000 in cash on hand, while either of the Democrats on the primary ballot have yet to file any reports with the FEC. Prior to 2010, Taylor had held the seat since 1989. The early snapshot on the ground h...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
I caught "The Ed Show" on MSNBC last night shortly before bed and went to sleep crushed, identified as a denizen of the most willfully ignorant state in the Union. Fighting the urge to stay in bed (“Is it ever worth one’s effort to get up to vote Republican?” – attributed to a close friend) I struggled to my precinct today to cast my vote for Snoot Gingrich, Anybody B...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 13
While there hasn't been a ton of polling out of Alabama and Mississippi in advance of tomorrow's "Deep South" primaries, what we have seen over the past few days points to a potential coin flip on Tuesday night. Interestingly, it looks like national polls of the GOP primary point to a similarly tight circumstance. Gallup's tracker, inexplicably, is tightening again, and two new national po...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 12
Just heard about comedian Jeff Foxworthy stumping with GOP front-limper Mitt Romney in Mississippi and Alabama and find myself wondering just how much that's going to help the Massachusetts Moderate Mormon Mittron among my Deep South brothers and sisters. Because, after all. . . ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 12
If it wasn't so tragic for American Democracy in its implications this kind of ignorance in the Deep South would be almost laughable. Other notes from Alabama and Mississippi -There's considerable skepticism about Barack Obama's religion with Republican voters in them. In Mississippi only 12% of voters think Obama's a Christian to 52% who think he's a Muslim and 36% who are not su...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Mar 12
N ovember 8th, Mississippi voters will will either support or defeat a proposition that would give a fertilized human egg the same legal rights and protections under the State’s Constitution that apply to living breathing people. Few voters in Mississippi would bother to turn out to support particulars of defining the legal status of the fusion of two haploid gametes. Most folks might ...
The iHandbill - Oct 30
Mississippi voters do not register by Party. When they vote in Primaries, they may choose to vote in either Party Primary. Most white candidates for local races run as Democrats - otherwise they will get no black votes. Black Mississippi voters will just not vote for a Republican - nor do I blame them. As Republicans have tried to take over our state, they have rarely had Republican Primaries. Th...
Natchez Mississippi - Jul 21 - 3 clicks
