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In Presidential Politics, Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

Michael Sigman | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Warren Harding, Woody Allen, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Science, Thomas Jefferson, John Huntsman, 2012 Election, H.L. Mencken, Jon Stewart, Charles Darwin, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, George Wallace, Evolution, Climate Change, Election 2012, Tea Party, Politics News

Romney and his fellow GOP hopefuls can take comfort in new research indicating that on the pressing issues of the day, their coveted conservative cohort seeks nothing more than to know nothing.

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Freedom Riders, by Any Other Name

Mary Daily | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: George Wallace, Freedom Riders, Racism, Civil Rights Movement, Segregation, Lillian Carter, Politics News

Freedom Riders, who arrived in the South 50 years ago this month in the cause of civil rights, were called something else in the segregated states upo...

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Arizona Legal Challenge: A Pivotal Moment for Federal Leadership on Immigration

Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jan Brewer, Agjobs, DREAM Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Illegal Immigration, George Wallace, Immigration, Department of Justice, Pete Wilson, Arizona Immigration Law, Barack Obama, Politics News

News is spreading that the Obama Administration is considering a legal challenge to Arizona's radical new immigration law, SB1070. For those of us interested in civil rights, community safety, and the rule of law, let us hope so.

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Open Letter to Mike Huckabee

Fred Karger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Mike Huckabee, Gerald Ford, George Wallace, Michael Dukakis, Fred Karger, Maurice Clemmons, Mary Cheney, Barry Goldwater, Dick Cheney, Willie Horton, Politics News

Now the Republican Party has its own 21st Century George Wallace, another Southern Governor who has also run for president, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas.

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What Would Jefferson Davis Do?

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clement F. Haynsworth, Richard Nixon, Jefferson Davis, Michael Steele, Abraham Lincoln, G. Harrold Carswell, George Wallace, Bob Mcdonnell, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Tea Party, Politics News

When Republicans gather after the November election to seek a scapegoat, they needn't bother with Michael Steele. The man who has diminished the party's chances is Bob McDonnell -- the governor didn't make a mistake. He blurted the truth.

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The Opportunity to Hate

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bart Stupak, Liberal Media, Women's Rights, Jews, John McCain, Civil Rights Act, Social Security, John Boehner, Jesse Helms, John Lewis, Barney Frank, President Obama, Jim Demint, Strom Thurmond, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Segregation, Voting Rights, Nancy Pelosi, George Wallace, Health Care Reform, Hate Speech, Martin Luther King Day, Medicaid, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

The principles that Helms stood for were bigotry, hatred and fear. Obama passed health care reform, something both Republicans and Democrats have tried to do for decades.

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The Teabaggers' Freedom to Call Me "N*gger"

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White Tribalism, Congressman John Lewis, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Party Racism, Barack Obama, Racism, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, George Wallace, Republicans, Culture Wars, Civil Rights Movement, Politics News

It's not the first time Rep. John Lewis has been called a "nigger." He's a veteran of the civil rights movement. He's an old hand at that. It's not...

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Taking on Big Whitey

Kara Vallow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Governor Jan Brewer, Civil Rights Movement, Karl Rove, Mlb, Major League Baseball, George W. Bush, Pete Wilson, Arizona, Super Bowl, Martin Luther King, Sarah Palin, George Wallace, sb1070, Racism, Glenn Beck, MLK Day, MLB All-Star Game, Politics News

Looking back, I suppose the election of Barack Obama was always bound to kick over the stone of American racism and reveal the wriggling horrors beneath, but who really could have ever predicted how bad it would get?

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The Tea Party's Enemies

Charles W. Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Ross Perot, Two Party System, George Wallace, Tea Party, Reform Party, Southern Strategy, Republican Party, Politics News

If history is the best predictor of the future, and it usually is, the "Tea Party" will have a short shelf life. Beginning well before the Civil War, such movements have come and gone.

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My White Mom's Black History Moment II

Dedrick Muhammad | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Richmond Flowers, United Methodist, Martin Luther King, Ku Klux Klan, Montgomery Alabama, George Wallace, Sncc, Dedrick Muhammad, Student-Nonviolent-Coordinating-Committee, Video, Healthy Living News

For these final days of Black History Month, Mom talks about the repercussions she experienced for challenging the norms of white society and going to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in the mid 1960s.

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Cancer, John Mayer and "Please Don't Call Me Racist" : Diffusing the R-Bomb

Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hood Pass, White Supremacists, Bull Conner, Chemotherapy, Racism, Entitlement, Cancer, Whiteness, Rush Limbaugh, Bart Motes, John Meyer, Tim-Wise, White People, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Healthy Living News

It wasn't until recovering from stage IV uterine cancer that I began to notice the parallels between cancer and racism -- and potentially similar paths of recovery.

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Parker Griffith, the man who pandered to labor unions and single-payer advocates to get elected as a Democrat, met the Teabag Terror and was terrified into switching parties.

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President Obama's Entrepreneurial Mindset

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hawaii, Al Gore, Small Business, Entrepreneurial Time System, Toronto, Small Town, 1976 Election, George W. Bush, Single Mothers, President Obama, Entrepreneurs, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, David and Goliath, The Audacity to Win, Senators, Ellen, Political Organizing, Larry King, Lexington KY, Richmond Ky, John Kerry, William Jennings Bryan, Xerox, Steven Jobs, 2008 Campaign, The Strategic Coach, American College, Ibm, Wall Street, African Americans, Google, McNay Settlement Group, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Impossible Goals, Microsoft, Washington Insiders, Kentucky, Don McNay, Bill Gates, 2008 Election, Southern Politics, David Plouffe, Entrepreneurial, Main Street, Structured Settlements, Ross Perot, Vanderbilt University, Jay Leno, George Wallace, Dan Sullivan, Oprah, Million Dollar Round Table, Eastern Kentucky University, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Obama Calls Small Towns Bitter, Tyra Banks, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship, David Lettterman, Nssta, Business News

I have not seen much evidence of Obama being in touch with small-town Kentucky, but after reading David Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win, I have become convinced that he knows what it takes to run a business.

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HuffPost Review: Prom Night in Mississippi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 05.25.2011

Morgan Freeman attempts to coax a revolution in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, where the local high school still has segregated proms.

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Hey Michael Steele Don't Forget the Watermelon

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Steele, Racism, Gop, Racial Stereotypes, Black Voters, Fried Chicken, George Wallace, Politics News

Republican National Chair Michael Steele sure has a way of ingratiating himself with black voters.

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Rick Perry Should Stop Embarrassing Texas

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Bullock, Perry Demagogue, Joe Cutbirth, Demagogue, Secession, George Wallace, Rick Perry, Texas, Lester Maddox, Texas-Governor-Rick-Perry, Perry, Seceed, Tea Party, Texas Secession, Politics News

Partisanship and political philosophy aside, I can think of few things more irresponsible in this economy than the governor of Texas speaking freely about secession.

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Cornelia Wallace Dies: Former Alabama First Lady

AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 05.25.2011

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Alabama first lady Cornelia Wallace, who threw herself over Gov. George C. Wallace when he was shot in a 1972 assassin...

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George Clooney Slams Prop 8

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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George Clooney has spoken out to E!'s Ted Casablancas about the passage of Proposition 8, banning gay marriage in California: "At some point in our li...

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Friday Talking Points [52] -- What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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I started blogging over two years ago. That is to say, right about the time the 2008 presidential campaign began. OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration...

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Exorcising the Ghost of Governor Wallace

Edwin Eisendrath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Obama, 2008 Election, Renewal, George Wallace, Politics News

The GOP bogeymen don't scare us any more. Barack Obama means we can get back to long delayed work of building a government that is worthy of a great democracy.

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Palin: The Worst Angels of Our Nature

Charles J. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great Crash of 2008, Karl Rove, John McCain, Henry Kissinger, Sinclair Lewis, Huey Long, George Wallace, It Can't Happen Here, Charles Lindbergh, Election 2008, William Kristol, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Charles Coughlin, Great Depression, Strom Thurmond, Politics News

The Palinistas are far less interested in electing McCain than they are in putting the Sarahnator one step away from the White House (and, they hope, in it soon).

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The Hate-Talk Express -- Is This Really the Way You Want to Go Out, Senator McCain?

Mary Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, McCain Rally Obama, John Lewis, McCain/Palin Campaign, George Wallace, Racism, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Extremists at Palin Rallies, Campaign 2008, Extremists at McCain Rallies, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Racism at McCain Rallies, Mccain Rallies, Politics News

I'm sorry, Senator McCain. This IS the bed you and Palin made. And it is hideous. No wonder you don't want to lie down on it.

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One Reason Race May Not Derail Obama: The 'Do the Right Thing' Effect

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Democrat, Spike Lee, Barack Obama, Republican, Racism, Race, Prejudice, John McCain, Election, George Wallace, Politics News

It's something people of color face every day: you're a symbol to the world until you get famous enough that you're not.

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John Lewis Warns McCain: You're "Sowing The Seeds Of Hatred And Division"

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Georgia congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis, reacting to the increasingly incendiary atmosphere at McCain-Palin campaign rallies, condemned...

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Hunting Licenses

Charles J. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Wallace, Herman Talmadge, John McCain, Eugene Talmadge, Election 2008, Lester Maddox, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Home News

Over the past week, we have seen a coarsening of political discourse in this country that hasn't been seen in forty years.

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