I live near a billboard that until recently had a sign telling people that "vote fraud is a felony". The sign was at 34th and Lincoln Avenue. This is an area with a strong Latino population. The sign, and others like it, are put up in minority areas in the city of Milwaukee...
Civil Rights violation charges were filed aganist Meridan, Missippi for running a school-to-priosn pipeline in which African Americans children were sent to prison for minor school infractions. Another example of how over-sentencing contributes to America's two...
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Dinesh D'Souza is a Christian conservative who has been hostile to gays and atheists. He has also made a movie harshly critical of President Obama. D'Souza believes that Christianity is morally superior than the humanist beliefs that many gays and atheists possess. He...
The number of U.S. cases of West Nile virus rose 25 percent in the latest week, while the number of deaths jumped 32 percent, placing the 2012 outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease on track to be the most severe on record, health officials said Wednesday.So far this year...
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As was her habit, stopping by her elderly father's home in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to look in on him one day in 1995, my sister in law Jacq happened to answer the telephone. The man on the other end of...
Home of divisiveness The United States includes the south. The Republican Party in the south isn’t just “conservative,” it has become a bastion for backwardness and cultural depravity to old history....
At least six people have been killed due to the deadly tornadoes in the Southeast that hit on Wednesday. The tornadoes were suspected in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. Dozens of homes and...
All across the nation, such a strange vibration, and people are voting, yes people are voting. (musical note)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdvCqUguIh8 Down with anti-unionism. Down with antiabortion. These are...
Altercation with mother may have led to murder. A woman found in a wooded area may have been killed and dumped there by her son. WBLT reports that a Gulf-port man may be responsible for his own mother's death. Gulf-port Police Chief Alan Weatherford said his deputy's...
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A 31 year old woman arrested and charged with statutory rape of a 13 year old male. Investigation began after school officials overheard a conversation between the minor and other students. According to Picayune Item a Purvis, Ms woman has been arrested and charged for...
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Three children are dead as a result of a vehicle crash due to a tire blowout. The vehicle was driven by Eliazar Garcia, and none of the victims wore seat-belts. Reports by The Mississippi Link says three young kids were killed when the vehicle they were riding in had a...
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The Mississippi River Could Crest Late on Monday May 9 It is expected that the Mississippi River could crest hours earlier than expected on Monday, at Memphis, but Mayor AC Wharton said the city is ready for it...
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They carry leprosy that can transfer to humans. " “Armadillos linked to leprosy in humans By Carina Storrs, Health.com April 27, 2011 5:14 p.m. EDT There have been several anecdotal reports of...
" Given their place as the most powerful public-employee alliance, teachers' unions are front and center in the debate that is going on in Wisconsin. But beyond the high-decibel clashes between Tea Partyers and public-employees' unions are contentious education-policy issues...
" Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a possible Republican presidential candidate, recently caused a major stir. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, he referred to race relations while growing up in Mississippi this way: "I just don't remember it as being that bad." Of...