A collection of photos and paintings depicting Sherman’s March to the Sea, set to “Oyster River Hornpipe” preformed by the 125th Ohio’s “Tiger Band.”
I was going to do some journalism today, but decided a little symbolic nostalgia for the Civil War was called for instead. It figures that no one will read this far down anyway, or even hit the Facebook link, so it is safe to say without reprisal that I am sitting on the dirt pile of all dirt piles on everybody that is anybody. But what does a poor dirt farmer do? What else? Sit around and drink beer and figure out which dirt pile has more value…
In an effort to collect information on voters and to register citizens to vote Republican, apparently, the Alabama Republican Party has been mailing out voter registration forms to residents of the state with a Republican Party return address rather than the Board of Registrars address, according to an announcement posted on the Secretary of State’s office Website.
Rather than reprimanding Republican Party officials for this obvious ethical and possibly legal breach, however, Secretary of State Beth Chapman, a Republican, had this notice published on the site:
During the Bush years, we specialized in covering the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization. Our archives are about the most comprehensive for anyone researching the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and the original case against Richard Scrushy, which Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times.
