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Cindy Hyde-Smith Says She Never Lost Faith in Mississippi’s Racists
Via: Don Overton • Op/Ed • 9 Comments • 6 years ago
“JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI (The Borowitz Report)—Celebrating her election victory on Tuesday night, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith said that, despite...”
“For weeks, we’ve been hearing national pundits say that Mississippi was ready to enter the twenty-first century,” Hyde-Smith told a crowd of supporters at her victory rally. “Tonight, with your help, we proved them wrong.” Hyde-Smith said that, despite the media’s unearthing of a cavalcade of...
Do Republicans Hate Latinos?
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 6 years ago
““Republicans hate Latinos.” Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta famously uttered these words in 2006 at a Tucson High School lecture. ”
8 years later, we may have the final proof that, as we suspected all along, she was right.Arizona Superintendent of Instruction John Huppenthal, a Republican, admitted to posting racist comments on liberal blogs under the monikers Falcon9 and Thucydides. There were enough of them that the...
https://rewire.news/article/2018/11/21/judge-blocks-mississippis-15-week-abortion-ban-rips-states-gop-legislature/
Via: Don Overton • Op/Ed • 15 Comments • 6 years ago
““This Court follows the commands of the Supreme Court and the dictates of the United States Constitution, rather than the disingenuous calculations...”
HB 1510, known as the Mississippi Gestational Act, was enacted in March and bans abortion at 15 weeks, with a narrow exception for medical emergencies threatening the pregnant person or if there is a “severe” fetal anomaly. The measure had been temporarily blocked since Marchafter advocates...
Question of Badfish
By: Don Overton • Metafied • 7 Comments • 6 years ago • LOCKED
“Questioning your ticket”
Original statement ----This is one of those seeds that should get reseeded in 10 years so we can laugh at how crazy the left was. These are the same claims that were made about George Bush and will age just as well. My response to statement: If you think this is crazy just wait...
Are We About to Face Our Gravest Constitutional Crisis?
Via: Don Overton • Op/Ed • 78 Comments • 6 years ago
“Trump could be steering us towards a full-blown authoritarian state where the rule of law no longer exists and the president is a despot”
Before this lame-duck Congress adjourns in December we could face the most serious constitutional crisis in the history of the republic if Donald Trump attempts to shut down the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. A supine and pliant Republican Party, still in control of the...
Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum
Via: Don Overton • Heated Discussions • 4 Comments • 6 years ago
“This year’s streamlining process managed to nudge the standards in the direction of less biased coverage of the world’s religions, but much work...”
Long dogged by controversy, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) made national headlines again this month over efforts to “streamline” the state’s curriculum standards for social studies. Earlier this year, there was muchado about a recommendation to remove the language “all the heroic...
Trump Administration Plots Costly Private-Care Expansion for Veterans
Via: Don Overton • Newsvine Convergence • 1 Comments • 6 years ago
“The plan sets up a clash with Democrats, who say the administration is thwarting congressional intent and will starve the VA health system to pay...”
Last June, President Donald Trump signed a landmark law on veterans’ health care after months of tense negotiations. At the ceremony in the Rose Garden, Trump said the bill would deliver on his campaign promise to let veterans see private doctors instead of using the Department of Veterans...
'Just Count the Votes': Where Voter Suppression Not Quite Enough, GOP Now Trying to Stop Ballot-Counting in Multiple States
Via: Don Overton • Heated Discussions • 1 Comments • 6 years ago
“"Counting votes isn't partisan—it's democracy."”
As Republicans in several states attempted to halt the tallying of votes in some of the nation's closest midterm election races, watchdog groups and Democratic lawmakers condemned what they called attacks on the electoral process and democracy itself. In Florida's race for U.S. Senate,...
Ten Times Worse Than Nixon’: Historian Sounds The Alarm After Trump Fires Sessions
Via: Don Overton • Heated Discussions • 2 Comments • 6 years ago
“During an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Beschloss said the president firing Sessions has the potential to be far worse than Nixon’s Saturday...”
Beschloss said: If this is going the way it looks, this is ten times worse than Nixon because, let’s look, if this leads to let’s say the firing of Robert Mueller or the substantial limiting of this investigation – ten times worse than Nixon. Because let’s look at what Donald Trump has done...