Obama? Dean? McCarthy? Which presidential candidate does Bernie Sanders most resemble?
Gutting Wisconsin’s open records law may not have actually been the worst of the provisions in the bag of budget goodies Scott Walker and state Republicans were trying to sneak through. Check out what else was stuffed in there.
Florida county re-flies Confederate flag after brief capitulation to liberalism and political correctness.
Three men and one woman convicted in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln are hanged in Washington, DC.
So Gov Walker was in on that scheme to radically increase government secrecy in Wisconsin after all.
When did the final moment come in your mind? There are so many contenders. For me it’s the cultural destruction of the Dukes of Hazzard or perhaps the announced decision of golfer Bubba Watson, who bought the original ‘General Lee’, that he will paint over the Confederate Flag on the 1969 Dodge Charger’s roof and replace it with an American flag. But whatever the breakthrough moment is, there’s no way not to stand in awe at the rapidity of the change. Across the country, or more specifically across the South, one-time supporters of the Confederate flag, supporters of flying it over state capitols or in other places of reverence, have suddenly decided that the flag’s day is done. But there’s a parallel movement afoot.
Amanda Marcotte on the latest revelations about Cosby.
The immediate threat to Wisconsin’s public records law seems to have passed, but the question of who was behind the move to essentially eliminate it remains very live.
We now have the state legislature’s Republican leaders admitting they knew about it in advance, but Gov. Scott Walker still mum on the subject — which may tell you everything you need to know.
1955: A staunch segregationist sheriff (Willis V. McCall) reclassifies a “white” family Lake Country, Florida as “black”, triggering a forced move out of a white neighborhood, expulsion from white schools and this article in Ebony magazine.
The worst best quotes from today’s Confederate flag debate in the South Carolina Senate came from one guy.