Earlier this week Rep. Ted Yoho’s (R-FL) 2012 comments surfaced. “I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote,” he told a cheering audience.
Alexander Keyssar, Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network, weighed in on the multitude of reasons why Yoho (pictured, right) is just plain wrong:
If you’ve read Ta-Nehisi Coates harrowing essay on the case for reparations, we’re discussing it here in The Hive (sub.req.).
Earlier this week we reported how Chipotle felt obliged to ask its customers not to bring guns to chipotle restaurants. Seems like a reasonably enough request to most of us. And it’s been preceded by similar requests by various other chains like Starbucks and others.
Now the top pro-gun group in Texas pushing the demand for “open carry” firearm rights and trying to get people to show up at various restaurant chains with long guns is deciding it may not be such a hot idea after all.
“On the day of retribution, I am going to enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB and I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up blond slut I see inside there. All those girls that I’ve desired so much. They would have all rejected me and looked down upon me as an inferior man if I ever made a sexual advance towards them. While they throw themselves at these obnoxious brutes.”
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Here are the toughest, most uncomfortable questions Republicans should have to answer about the Affordable Care Act before this year’s midterms. It ain’t going to be easy.
Mississippi judge accused of slapping a mentally disabled black man and yelling “run, n—, run!”