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Why the Republican Party Is Tanking
You have to read this Orwellian speech by Veep Dick Cheney this week in which he proclaims that his borrow-and-spend government does not torture, respects the Constitution and "treats tax …
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Man opens fire at city council meeting in Missouri
Six people, including the shooter, are now dead:
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UPDATED: Suspect Arrested in 1992 Murder of Toddler
Updated with new information
[verbatim from AG's office] Jackson, MS-Attorney General Jim Hood today confirmed that an arrest has been made in the 16-year-old murder of a 3-year-old girl in Noxubee County. Albert Johnson …
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Ledger Needs Help Finding Positive Stories
Clarion-Ledger Perspectives Editor David Hampton ends his navel-gazing (and defensive) column this week about why his paper is so bad, and so negative, this way:
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Feds Say Country Club Employed Undocumented Workers
The Clarion-Ledger is reporting that the feds are targeting the Country Club of Jackson for violating immigration law:
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Have no clue what to get the beau in your life for Valentine's Day? Whether he's metrosexual, geek chic or a metal head, you can make a pair of cufflinks …
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Let's (Health) Care For Ourselves
As the presidential race has become more competitive, media are starting to focus attention on specific issues that directly affect the American public. One of the more popular topics in …
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Partners For Life
It was lunch time on a Wednesday, and two groups of young adults raced to assemble Spiderman and Diego puzzles without the help of the pictures on the box lids. …
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Cold Case Revived
Jackson Mayor Frank Melton told reporters last week that he's getting telephone threats for pursuing a murder case against Jackson resident Sherrod Moore. Police arrested Moore last week in the …
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[Sue Doh Nem] Love Connection in the Recession
Brett Starrchild: "I'm Brett Starrchild, the other token Caucasian TV host of the Ghetto Science Team Cable Network. Welcome to the final round of the new dating show, 'No Romance …
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[Braden] Conversations With (28-plus) Women
Conversations with my two best girlfriends occur while we wait in the drive-thru line for a Diet Coke, during our new baby girl's nap time (we have an 8-month-old in …
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[Fly] How to Do Valentine's Day, Sans Date
If you've recently kicked your valentine to the curb, don't sit in front of your private bonfire burning every item that reminds you of him or her. Instead throw a …
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Super Tuesday Thread
What's your take? Already some suprises with West Virginia going to Huckabee and Ron Paul actually pulling a few delegates. (Are you supposed to say something after typing "Ron Paul" …
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MVP Eli Chooses Hybrid Escalade
Maybe, sort of, Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning set an example for others when he and fiancee Abby McGrew chose the new Escalade Hybrid as his reward for being named …
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A Giant Upset
Eli and the Giants ruin the season of the Anti-Christ and his godless minions. Perfect Patriots, my ... Archie's kids own the Super Bowl these days.
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Bell Pleads Guilty, Sentenced to Life
For background on this case, read the JFP's investigative feature, "Grant Me Justice."
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Back from San Francisco
Todd and I are just back from several very busy days at two alternative newspaper conferences in San Francisco—one a Web conference and the other AAN West, which is the …
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Five women shot to death at suburban Chicago mall
CBS News link
There is no known motive yet, and the suspect is still on the loose. What would make a person do something so sinister?
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Soldier Suicides Soaring in Iraq
This is a blog on the human cost of empire.
Despite an increased effort by the Pentagon, the Army is reporting that suicides by soldiers stationed in Iraq is dramatically climbing.
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Save Me From The Old White Men
We hate fat people. Or rather, that is now what everyone in the blogosphere is screaming.
The MS State Legislature made The Smoking Gun today
