Federal Court Strikes Down Texas Voter ID Law
A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.
American Politics May Be Nasty But They Started It
At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.
Arkansas Police Claim Handcuffed Man Shot Himself In The Head
A very suspicious “suicide” in police custody.
Alphabet Soup Collision: PR at the UN by the NAACP over Voter ID
The voter ID issue goes on the road.
It’s a Mystery Why Republicans Have Trouble Attracting Black Votes
Newt Gingrich provides another example.
Rick Perry Faces Criticism Over Hunting Lodge With Racially Tinged Name
Why does what was painted on a rock 30-odd years ago matter today?
Texas Cheerleader Who Refused to Cheer Rapist Loses in Court
A Texas high school student who was kicked off her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to cheer for her rapist had her lawsuit dismissed as frivolous and was ordered to pay $45,000 in legal fees.
Shirley Sherrod Sues Andrew Breitbart
Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.
Haley Barbour Stupidly Reopens An Old Wound
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who may end up running for President in 2012, has reopened wounds that finally seemed like they were closed.
Memo To South Carolina: Your Secession Is Nothing To Celebrate
150 years ago today a group of men gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and made one of the gravest mistakes in American history. They should not be honored for it.
What Juan Williams Has In Common With Shirley Sherrod
NPR says it fired Juan Williams for remarks that were “inconsistent” with its editorial standards. In reality, it appears that Williams was the victim of the same convenient editing that cost Shirley Sherrod her job earlier this year.
Who is Publius? or, Who’s Afraid of Anonymous Political Speech?
Reason’s Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie have a pretty amusing rejoinder to the Obama administration’s attempts to smear the anonymous funding of television ads opposed to their agenda in a video titled “Who is Publius? or, Who’s Afraid of Anonymous Political Speech?”
Unease On The Right Over “Ground Zero Mosque” Rhetoric
Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.
Has The Internet Ruined Political Discourse ?
The Internet has given us many good things, but it’s also led to a decline in political discourse that we’d do well to reverse before it’s too late.
How Andrew Breitbart, And The Conservative New Media, Failed
Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.
The Shirley Sharrod/Racism Story: Much Less Than Meets The Eye ?
Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.
