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No Hurricane Worries? Not So Fast

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 12.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Coast, Knight Foundation, Tropical, Category, 2010, Preparedness, Philip J. Klotzbach, Cone of Uncertainty, Gerald Campbell, Katrina, Experts, Mississippi, National Hurricane Center, Season, Miami, Knight Center for International, Depression, Florida, Zone, Complacency, Louisiana, Wind, Develop, Forecast, El Nino, William M. Gray, Colorado State University, Office of Emergency Management, Water, Storms, Atlantic Ocean, Bill, Bill Read, Hurricane, Ocean, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

Here's the bad news about the quiet, almost peaceful hurricane season in 2009: Right away, people start thinking this is the norm. They start to relax and maybe even make fun of hurricanes.

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Hurricane Ida Takes Aim At Gulf Coast

AP | BECKY BOHRER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Cancun, Category 1 Storm, Nicaragua Atlantic Coast, Mississippi, Louisiana, National Hurricane Center, Cozumel, Yucatan Peninsula, Hurricane Ida, U.S. National Hurricane Center, Gulf of Mexico, Miami, Hurricane Watch, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 m...

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The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, The CAMPAIGN, Lgbt, Proposition 8, Twitter, Christie Herring, Lesbian, San Francisco. Maine, Anita Bryant, Gay, Gay Marraige, Briggs Initiative, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Transgender, Bisexual, Mississippi, Love, Cailifornia, Obama, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

Was it bigotry that defeated gay marriage in Maine and California, or was it ignorance? Films like The Campaign, about the fight for gay rights, require our attention and our support.

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The Secrets To Goldman Sachs' Success: Contrary Bets, Predatory Lending, Government Connections, Offshore Tax Havens

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Paulson, Regulation, Recession, Obama, Reform, Lloyd Blankfein, Mortgage Related Swaps, Mortgages, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Mississippi, Bailout, Predatory Lending, Securities Act of 1933, Blankfein, Hank Paulson, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Goldman Sachs Mortgage, Real Estate, Wall Street, Tax Havens, Housing Market, Blue Chips, Calpers, Derivatives, Moody's, Offshore, Tim Geithner, High Yield Bonds, Hedges, Barack Obama, Nyse, Cayman Islands, Banks, Sec, Subprime Mortgage, Economy, Business News

WASHINGTON -- In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but n...

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Is 'The Help' More Than A Surprise Bestseller? Is It A New 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Fiction, Racism, Mississippi, Civil Rights, Bestsellrers, Bestsellers, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

I first heard about The Help soon after it was published in February. But it's 444 pages. I put it off. Very quickly, it became the #3 fiction bestseller.

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Car Dealers Exempt From New Consumer Protection Agency

Steve Parker | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Walt Minnick, White House, National Automobile Dealers Association, North Dakota, Congress, California, Mike Castle, John Campbell, President Obama, Cfpa, Cars, Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Mississippi, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Delaware, Travis Childers, House Financial Services Committee, Business News
Steve Parker

The House Financial Services Committee approved a key amendment Thursday, 47-21, to keep automobile dealers exempt them from a new government consumer protection agency.

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...And Then He Got Fired

Paul Brown | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Floods, Environment, Effects of Climate Change, New Orleans, Van Heerden, Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Green News
Paul Brown

Two Christian religious leaders combined yesterday to warn that time was running out for the life of the planet.

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Hate the Husband? Sue the Mistress!

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Women, Marriage, Politics, Congress, Alienation of Affection, Divorce, Sex, John Edwards, Mississippi, Love, Chip Pickering, North Carolina, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

An unlikely alliance of trial lawyers and Christian fundamentalists continues to defend the prerogative of jilted spouse to turn love triangles into quadrangles--with the state judicial system as a fourth wheel.

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The Past Is Never Dead

Alison Teal | Posted 11.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: True Crime, Ku Klux Klan, Books, Npr, Tattered Cover, Race, Mississippi, Denver, James Ford Seale, Denver News
Alison Teal

A new book is a true story about the 2007 trial of klansman James Ford Seale for the hideous murder of two young black men in 1964.

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Imprisoned Democrat Paul Minor's Appeal Has Major 1st Amendment Implications

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, First Amendment, Mississippi, Paul Minor, Fifth Circuit, Campaign Contributions, U.S. Supreme Court, Bush Justice Department, Politics News
Brendan DeMelle

Without quid pro quo proof of a deal between donor and recipient, anyone, could be accused of "bribery" just for giving money to a candidate running for office, as Paul Minor was.

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Protecting Homeowners the Right Course of Action

Rep. Gene Taylor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeowner Insurance, Gulf Coast, New Orleans, Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina, Gene Taylor, Politics News
Rep. Gene Taylor

In the Gulf Coast, the ever-escalating costs of insurance, post-Katrina, have home and business owners facing daunting prospects for protecting their piece of the American Dream.

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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour To Replace Sanford As Head Of Republican Governors Association

CNN | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Haley Barbour, Mississippi, Haley Barbour, Governor Mark Sanford, South Carolina, Sanford, Argentina, Sanford Affair, Republican Governors Association, Politics News

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has assumed the chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association, CNN has learned....

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Has Change Come to the South?

David Parker | Posted 07.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: New Orleans, French Quarter, Pork, Mississippi, Comedy, Seafood, Seersucker, Comedy News
David Parker

In the French Quarter, bartenders still look like strippers, strippers still look like prostitutes and prostitutes still look like, well, they also look like prostitutes.

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Biloxi Removing FEMA Trailers, Undermining Obama and Victimizing Katrina Survivors

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fema, Mississippi, Human Rights, Homelessness, Acorn, Homeland Security, Hurricane Katrina, Fema Trailers, Oxfam, Barack Obama, Aclu, Housing Crisis, Naacp, Biloxi, Gene Taylor, Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, Joseph Cao, Advancement Projecy, Gulf Coast, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Jeffrey Buchanan

The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.

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U.S. Intelligence -- or the Lack Thereof -- on North Korea

Keith Thomson | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Cia, Doubleday, Propaganda, Spy Satellite, Kim Jong Il, Drones, Novel, Al Qaeda, Nsa, Dia, North Korea Missile, South Korea, National Security, North Korea Nuclear Program, Navy Seals, Japan, Mississippi, China, North Korea, World News
Keith Thomson

How is it -- given a skyful of satellites and legions of human spies -- that we were surprised by North Korea's missile launch? Why is it that we know so little about this country?

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Illegal, High-Polluting Chinese Engines Sold By Mississippi Companies

AP | TIMOTHY R. BROWN | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, China, Pollution, Mississippi, China Pollution, Green News

JACKSON, Miss. — Three Mississippi companies are accused in a federal lawsuit of illegally importing and selling more than 78,000 small engines ...

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Mississippi Shining: Good News for All

Gangaji | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Mississippi, All for Good, James A. Young, Forgiveness, Love, Peace, Civil Rights, A Spirituality, Living News
Gangaji

Mr. Young won, and we all win if we allow his story to inform our inner struggles, the struggle with the parts of ourselves we deem hateful and unworthy; the struggle with others we deem hateful and unworthy.

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Privatized Hell

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Privatization, Juvenile Justice, Prisons, Mississippi, Incarcerated Teens, Politics News
J. Richard Cohen

As a society, we are facing a crucial decision: We can continue to criminalize our children and groom them for adult prisons. Or, we can invest in programs that help rather than harm them.

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The Republican Party's Death Wish

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Liberal Party, Ronald Reagan, Economy, George W. Bush, Kentucky Jim Bunning, Democratic Party, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gary Bauer, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, California, Charlie Crist, Economic Stimulus Package, Rnc, Unemployment, Mike Huckabee, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Labour Party, US Chamber of Commerce, Mississippi, Republican Party, Great Depression, Arlen Specter, Michael Steele, Abortion, John McCain, Karl Rove, Florida, Appalachia, Rush Limbaugh, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney, Alabama, Texas, Congress, Pennsylvania, Whig Party, Civil Unions, Barack Obama, Deep South, Religion, Independents, Jon Huntsman, Race Issues, Great Britain, Marxism, Tom Delay, South Carolina, Watergate, Utah, Gay Issues, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

We have yet to hear a single realistic scenario from a top Republican that would outline how and when the country could move forward from its current meltdown.

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Religio-Conservative Red States Secretly Love Their Blue Movies

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Arkansas, West Virginia, xxxchurch.com, Deputy Attorney General, Sami Harb, Movies by Mail, David Ogden, Utah, Utah Child Protection Registry, Benjamin Edelman, Pornography, Mississippi, Michael Harb, Harvard Business School, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Alaska, North Dakota, Media News
Theresa Darklady Reed

The most porn-loving state in the country appears to be Utah -- you know, the state with the anti-porn "child protection registry" law and a burning, bleeding loathing for same-sex marriage.

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Mississippi House Votes To Accept All Stimulus Money, Defying GOP Governor

Think Progress | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop Stimulus, Mississippi, Economic Stimulus Package, Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, Stimulus Package, Stimulus Money, Politics News

Last month, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) criticized "excess spending" in the federal recovery package, saying he (like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jind...

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Bobby Jindal Is a Phony as Well as a Lousy Speaker

Sandy Goodman | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Employment Law Project, President Obama, Louisiana, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Response, Andrew Sullivan, Bobby Jindal, Alabama, Unemployed Workers, Christine Owens, Meet the Press, Stimulus Law, Times Picayune, David Brooks, South Carolina, Unemployment Benefits, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Mississippi, State Law, Sunset Provision, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

Jindal would rather cheat the poorest unemployed workers in his state of an extra few dollars than cause its businessmen, his bigtime buddies, to pay a little extra in unemployment taxes.

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The Scott Sisters: Two Life Sentences for 11 Dollars?

Anthony Papa | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political News, Wrongful Conviction, Racism, Injustice, The Supreme Court, Crime, Gladys and Jamie Scott, Scott Sisters, Mississippi, Theft, Armed Robbery, Politics News
Anthony Papa

How do you wind up in prison serving two life terms for a robbery that netted 11 dollars? That question has haunted first time offenders Gladys and Jamie Scott for the past 15 years.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Cultural Revolution, Mao, Ronald Reagan, Chicago, Economy, National Journal, Rahm Emmanuel, George W. Bush, Vermont, Gun Control, Colorado, Same-Sex Marriage, Dccc, Howard Dean, Virginia, Gay Rights, Rnc, Bailout, New Mexico, Maine, Nancy Pelosi, Travis Childers, Stimulus Package, Mississippi, Republican Party, Bobby Bright, Tarp, North Carolina, Abortion, Bill Clinton, Republican National Committee, Appalachia, David Paterson, Alabama, Congress, Democratic National Committee, Soviet Union, Jon Kyl, New York, Idaho, Recession, Barack Obama, Religion, Log Cabin, South, Marxism, Harry Reid, San Francisco, Hillary Clinton, Moderate Republicans, Dnc, Utah, Kirsten Gillibrand, Senate, Indiana, Stalin, Late Night Shows, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.

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