Second Front. Several groups disrupted a field hearing by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Friday morning in Birmingham by shouting in English and Spanish and holding… Tomorrow, Democratic party nominee for Chief Justice Harry Lyon will face what he considers — and what may be — a railroading off the ballot.… In response to the hysteria and outbursts that stopped a Jefferson County Commission vote to end in-patient care at Cooper Green Mercy Hospital on Tuesday… Council President Pro Tem Hoyt withdrew a plan Tuesday to explore funding the Birmingham Board of Education’s reserve fund after councilors expressed a desire to… The Birmingham BOE is permanently enjoined from interfering with BCS Superintendent Dr. It is perhaps the most damning indictment of Texas evangelist and pseudo-historian David Barton so far. A judge has ordered that a suit filed by ousted Alabama Public Television Executive Director Allan Pizzato will go forward based on possible violations of… Wade on Birmingham.
Birmingham Blues. Seriously, what is going on in the Natural State? Yeah, I had to look that up – last I knew, the Arkansas slogan was Land of Opportunity. Did they mean Opportunity for nuts to get elected to the state legislature? First we have Rep. Jon Hubbard (R-Jonesboro), who self-published a book claiming that slavery was a “blessing in disguise” for black people, who were rewarded for their enslavement with citizenship in the US.
“The institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise,” Hubbard argues in Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative. Um, yeah. Then there’s Rep. If slavery were so God-awful, why didn’t Jesus or Paul condemn it, why was it in the Constitution and why wasn’t there a war before 1861? I’ve been pointing out for years that Jesus said nothing about loving relationships between same-sex partners, but I doubt Rep. Rep. Left In Alabama Connecting Progressive Voices in Alabama Politics. The Locust Fork News-Journal covers politics, science, nature, technology, labor, media news and views and more...
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