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Another Undeclared Republican War
I must have missed the meeting
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) expired last year and has not been reauthorized. The law has been held hostage by the Republican men on the Judiciary Committee over some asinine pretexts that the law might could be used to expand protection of undocumented or LGBT victims and allow tribal governments to arrest paleface abusers.
VAWA is not your everyday-no-big-deal-who-cares-we-can-live-without-it kind of law. This law changed everything for victims of domestic battering. If this isn’t about Republican men versus women, then they need to prove it…
Bon Appetit Y'all
Georgia Olive Oil Makes a Southern Dinner
There is little I enjoy more than the bounty of Georgia’s oceans, farms, dairies and vineyards. I’m addicted to the fresh flavors and heirloom varieties of locally grown fruits and vegetables. I could mainline Georgia peaches and not get enough. I grew up on milk-fed beef from the back yard.
When my friend and occasional employer wrote that he would be in town from Beirut, I quickly invited him to dinner. He said he would have two Lebanese colleagues with him. That pleased me even more.
When he accepted, he said, “They think Southern food is gross and unhealthy.” My response? “We’ll have Southern Food, but not Southern Cooking.”
Southern Views
Super Bowl Media Milestones
Super Bowl XLVI marked yet another media milestone. True, it had 111.3 Million viewers, making it the largest audience for any Super Bowl so far. But that’s not it. And, true, the commercials topped the $3.5 Million mark, making them the most expensive spots so far. But that’s not it either. No, the milestone that media scholars will be discussing fifty years from now is that this was the first game streamed legal and live online for free. Both NBCSports.com and the NFL.com provided viewers the option of huddling with their computers instead of sitting in the television stands of their living room while NBC through Verizon also allowed viewers to intercept the action on the mobile sidelines.
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SC Wind Energy Industry – The Politicians May Blow It
Automated Theft
Side Notes to the $25 Billion
Halftime: Good vs. Evil
Bishop of Sioux City calls on Christians to ‘violently oppose’ birth control
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A Valentine for the Gulf
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Elizabeth Warren blasts Scott Brown’s lurch to right on birth control
Drill, Baby, Drill
Bad Idea in the Arid West, or, Why Don’t We Grow Carrots?
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Revolutionary Wave Grows
Your Logo Here
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One and Half Time in America
Voting Them Off The Island
Lord of Little Rock Lighting Candles to Rove
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Unemployment down across South
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Exploitation is not racist
Artsploitation
Quilt Story: Black Rural Women, White Urban Entrepreneurs, and the American Dream
Thrill Rides
Weekend visit to aircraft carrier is just awesome
Dumbed Down
Say What?
A Consumer Win
When Debt Collectors are Bullies
Too Much Testosterone Already
The Surprising Connection Between Police Brutality and Steroid Use
Violets Are Blue
Feeling the Love on Valentine’s Day
End Times
Rolling Out the Red Carpet for the Second Coming With Nuclear War
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The Sound and the Fury and The Simpsons
Southern Bizness
Study: Small Businesses Are Unlikely to Opt Out of Health Reform
Southern Xenophobia
Alabama GOPer Pushes Bills Amending Anti-Immigrant Law
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Back to the Wall, Planned Parenthood Hangs Tough
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Congressman bites on Onion’s Planned Parenthood story
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Local Arts for the Unimpressed
Dangerous Politics
Grand, Old Psychos
A Tribute
Love, Peace … and a Whole Lot O’ Soul
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Departing Komen VP longtime foe of voting rights advocates
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The Girl Next Door
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First Light Upstate: Land of Mountains and Water
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Searching for a Taste of the South in France
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Onward Christian(?) Soldiers
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Lessons from Florida: Big Money and the New Majority
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Lee Leslie: My favorite provision in law extending payroll cuts, the doc fix and extending unemployment: The measure also would prevent welfare recipients from using their electronic benefits cards to withdraw money at ATMs in strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores. - What a strange and complicated world we live in.
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Monica Smith: The Man from Bain The dog's in his kennel, The poor in their nets. For the man from Bain, That's as good as it gets.
David Evans: More on writing: "Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."--Collette
David Evans: "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs."--Christopher Hampton, playwright and screen writer
Mark Johnson: Two pictures of Newt on the home page? Must we?
Lee Leslie: Favorite quote from SC: "I miss seeing car ads," said Graham, R-S.C.
Jim Smith: And I have to admit that I think you're wrong, Doug. For anybody else in the world who didn't happen to be on the impeachment committee, maybe you are correct, but in Newt's case, he made this OUR business by pressing the issue so noisily against Clinton. The thing about the goose, yeah, bingo. Oh, by the way, there are lots of other reasons to reject Newt, among them the fact that his flipper is as well lubricated as Mitt Romney's.
Doug Couch: I have to admit that I agree with Gingrich on this one. These debates (and I'm about sick of the sheer number of them) should focus on the issues, not candidates' sexual peccadillos. The media has already driven one candidate out of the race by harping on his alleged indiscretions simply because they couldn't wrap their minds around the concept of a conservative Black. It seems so easy to ignore the antics of JFK (and his brothers) and Bill Clinton but make a huge issue over Republicans' personal lives. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.