Jesse Helms

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Condomizing Jesse Helms' House

Sean Strub | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Condom, HIV/AIDS, Heritage Foundation, Condom on House, Treatment Action Group, Sean Strub, Poz. Peter Staley, Rebecca Norton Dunlop, Jesse Helms, ACT UP, Aids, David Geffen, Becky Norton Dunlop, Stephen Gendin, Tag, Politics News

We pulled up in front of Helms's house and jumped out of the truck like jackrabbits, racing to unload the ladders, blowers, generator and, of course, the condom.

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Elizabeth Dole Tries To Name AIDS Bill After Jesse Helms

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elizabeth Dole Aids Bill, Liddy Dole, Elizabeth Dole, Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole Aids, Elizabeth Dole Helms, Jesse Helms AIDS, Jesse Helms Death, Politics News

Republican Senator Dole introduced an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the recently deceased Jesse Helms. Helms, of course, was a strid...

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Jesse Helms: The Intimidation of Art and the Art of Intimidation

Kriston Capps | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Arts, Culture Wars, Jesse Helms, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Politics News

Many of those who were furious at the censorship of Robert Mapplethorpe and others in 1989 were to be expected: artists, donors, students, members. One, however, was a shock beyond shock art: Jesse Helms.

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Jesse Helms' Shameful Legacy Can't Be Whitewashed

Erik Ose | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Right Wing Media, Civil Rights Movement, Jesse Helms, Homophobia, Jesse Helms Legacy, Jesse Helms Death, Bigotry, North Carolina, Civil Rights, Politics News

No amount of whitewashing Helms' legacy can erase the stain of his reliance on hate-filled, divisive politics, or the hurt he caused so many people in the process.

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It's Awkward When Bad People Die

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Max and the Marginalized, Jesse Helms, Politics News

Enjoy our elegy for Mr. Helms, "It's Awkward When Bad People Die."

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Lieberman Must Go!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Monica Crowley, John McCain, Sean Hannity, Jesse Helms, Barack Obama, Joseph Lieberman, Politics News

Yesterday, the New York Times sniffed at a new web site, LiebermanMustGo.com, writing that it "catalogues Mr. Lieberman's perceived sins," as if the t...

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American Hero? Worker Ordered to Honor Jesse Helms Quits Job Instead

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Flag, Jesse Helms, North Carolina, Politics News

A state worker in Helms' native North Carolina named L.F. Eason III quit the only job he'd ever had rather than lower the flag to honor longtime racist Helms.

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The Upside Of Jesse Helms: Memorable Resistance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms, Segregationist Politics, ACT UP, Activism, Jesse Helms AIDS, North Carolina, Politics News

Throughout his lengthy career, Jesse Helms did the Republican Party no favors. A shambling, verminous bag of bigotry, Helms' presence at the forefron...

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How Jesse Helms Ruled North Carolina

Erik Ose | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms, Jesse Helms Legacy, Jesse Helms Death, North Carolina, Racial Politics, Direct Mail, Harvey Gantt, Campaign Spending, Right Wing, Attack Ads, Bigotry, Politics News

Helms poisoned the ideological well of politics, calling MLK, Jr. a communist and the 1964 Civil Rights Act "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress."

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Identity Crisis

Lincoln Chafee | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms Legacy, Republican Politics, Gop, Jesse Helms Death, Conservatism, Republican Party, Jesse Helms, Eisenhower Conservatism, Politics News

Jesse Helms' legacy is one of strong opposition to women's reproductive freedom, gay rights, foreign aid for diplomacy, and public funding for the arts -- priorities that run strong in today's GOP.

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Obligatory Jesse Helms Obituary Cartoon!

August J. Pollak | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Associated Press, Jesse Helms, Politics News

Speaking, as applicable. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....

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Jesse Helms: Yankee Doodle Jesse

Martin Lewis | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Misogyny, Homophobes, Vindictive, Homophobic, Petty, Jesse Helms, Mean-Spirited, Xenophobia, Racist, Redneck, Pig, Racialist, Pig-Ignorant, White Supremacist, Hick, Homophobia, Un-Christian, Un-American, Hell-Worthy, Bigot, Politics News

He's a Yankee Doodle Jesse A Yankee Doodle do or die A real live nephew of the Ku Klux Klan Died on the Fourth of July... "I hope what future generat...

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Conservative Icon Former Senator Jesse Helms Dead At 86

AP | WHITNEY WOODWARD | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms Legacy, Jesse Helms Death, Jesse Helms, Politics News

RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic dec...

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Reverend Wright In Jesse Helms's North Carolina

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 04.28.2008 | Home

Reverend Wright is a problem in North Carolina. Down-ticket Dems hare already injecting race into their races. Jesse Helms was such a force in this state for so long that "some of that" is still lingering.

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John McCain's White Supremacist Problem

Cliff Schecter | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racist Ad, Cliff Schecter, The Real Mccain, John McCain, North Carolina GOP, Jesse Helms, Barack Obama, Cliff Schecter Mccain, Politics News

I'll be waiting for the media to do their job and report on McCain's close association with a white supremacist, just as they have on every aspect of Barack Obama's life.

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"That Boy's Finger Does Not Need to Be on the Button"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Geoff Davis, Mitch McConnell, Jesse Helms, Haley Barbour, George W. Bush, Council of Conservative Citizens, Barack Obama, Willie Horton, Politics News

Is the thought of a black man with his "finger on the button" just too much for the Republicans to bear? Congressman Geoff Davis just exposed the tip of the iceberg.

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

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It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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Obama, Race and Our Segregated Power Structure

Ari Melber | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Brown v Board, Race, Barack Obama, Segregation, Colin Powell, John Mcwhorter, Jesse Helms, Stephen Breyer, Politics News

Obama's candidacy is a meaningful step towards addressing the fact that our national power structure has always been overwhelmingly white, from all 43 Presidents to 95 of the 100 senators serving today.

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Why We Wish The Clintons Would Just Go Away

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

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Because they have spun us into complete exhaustion. Because she's a feminist until it is her own husband who abuses his power. Because we don't have to settle for them.

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