Right-Wing Racism Makes MSNBC News, Again…

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Keith Olbermann’s guest is Melissa Harris-Lacewell, an Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University and an award winning author who appears regularly on MSNBC and other media outlets.

Folsom Supports the Right for People to Vote on E-Bingo

“I support the people of Alabama’s right to vote on issues that affect their lives and their local communities,” said Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. while presiding over the Senate. “I urged my colleagues in the Senate to stand with me in supporting those rights.”

“From the horse’s mouth and in his own words,” says Wade Perry on Facebook about the leading candidate to win the Republican primary in the Alabama governor’s race…

“Give it a look and share it with your friends,” he says.

Indeed.

In the interest of, you know, exposing the truth and connecting the dot dot dots…

by Glynn Wilson

The race for governor of Alabama is close with just months to go before the June 1 primary, according to a new survey just released by Public Policy Polling out of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Bradley Byrne and Artur Davis are the early leaders, “although both are in pretty close races,” Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling, said in a press release announcing the results.

According to a survey of 407 likely Democratic primary voters and 457 likely Republican primary voters in Alabama interviewed March 27-29, Davis leads the Democratic field with 38 percent declared support to 28 percent for Ron Sparks and 9 percent for Sam Franklin Thomas.

Davis leads with liberal, moderates, and conservatives alike by margins ranging from 8 to 14 points, according to the survey, although Sparks is ahead 33-29 with white voters.

Davis has the overall lead thanks to a 48-23 advantage with African Americans aligned with the Democratic Party, although there are some warning signs for Davis in the poll. Eighty percent of likely Democratic Party primary voters support the health-care bill that Davis opposed. Only 14 percent said they were against it.

Perhaps because of his position on health-care, there are actually more Democratic voters with an unfavorable than favorable opinion of Davis by a margin of 34-28 percent, according to the survey.

On the Republican side, Byrne and former judge Roy Moore are the early front runners.

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Right-Wing Militia Members Arrested in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana

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Nine suspects tied to a Christian militia that was preparing for the Antichrist were charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then kill scores more by attacking a funeral using homemade bombs, federal prosecutors said Monday.

The Michigan-based group, called Hutaree, planned to use the attack on police as a catalyst for a larger uprising against the government, according to newly unsealed court papers. U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said agents moved quickly on the group because its members were planning a violent mission sometime in April.

Members of the group, including its leader, David Brian Stone, also known as “Captain Hutaree,” were charged following FBI raids over the weekend on locations in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Seven people were arraigned in Detroit on Monday, and another one of Stone’s sons, Joshua, is missing, according to the Associated Press.

MrAndyWhorehall is in Post Production, Release Date to Be Announced

It should be released later this year by Vagabond Films. For more information, check out the Website at DustRadioMovie.

Christopher Becker Whitley (August 31, 1960 – November 20, 2005) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Highly acclaimed by critics, Whitley achieved modest mainstream success, but had a devoted following. Whitley’s style was rooted primarily in blues, but drew on an array of influences and was constantly changing. In 2001, the New York Times described his arc as “restless, moving into noise-rock and minimalist jazz evoking Chet Baker and Sonic Youth as much as Robert Johnson”.

In fall 2005, Whitley cancelled his tour due to health issues. Dan Whitley, his brother, revealed on November 11, 2005 that he was “in a comfortable warm home with hospice care at his disposal”. Later that week it was revealed that Whitley was terminally ill with lung cancer. He died on November 20, 2005; his brother, Dan, and daughter, Trixie, publicly announced his passing.

Source: Wikipedia

That’s Short for Confederate Southern American…

The Southern Legal Resource Center is calling on self-proclaimed “Southern Confederate Americans” to declare their heritage when they are counted in the 2010 Census, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Are you tired of Anti-Southern discrimination and bigotry directed at Southern people?” the group’s “legal counsel” says in the video being promoted on YouTube and Facebook.

Right, as if they didn’t have the “man” king wannabe Bush in the White House for eight long years.

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Five Years Ago Today, this Web Press was Born to Counter the Fourth Estate

Brooks Boliek

The Boliek house in Takoma Park, Maryland, where this site was started five years ago today…

The Big Picture
by Glynn Wilson

THE BUNKER – Five years ago today, I huddled in front of a little apple red iMac computer in a friend’s kitchen in Tacoma Park, Maryland, near Silver Spring. It was there I wrote the very first Sunday column for this alternative, independent news Web site, there in the pouring rain with the jazz down low on the radio.

By that time, George W. Bush had been sworn in for a second term, so we knew he would be with us for another three and a half years. There was not much hope for stopping all the damage he would surely cause in that time, but somebody had to try to warn the public.

There was always the hope of impeachment.

That story never did grow legs, or at least not long enough to ever be considered a real threat to the corporate state pulling Bush’s strings.

As the rain poured with the jazz in the background, I read about the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson, and thought of my good friend Spider Martin, who had given up the ghost two years before, also by self-inflicted gunshot wound.

You’ve just about got to be a big picture kind of writer to make sense of moments like that — in an hour or two of reading, thinking and writing. That’s about how long it takes to produce an average newspaper-style column of about a thousand words.

The problem was, everywhere you looked over the Internets on the World Wide Web at that time, there were these things called “blogs” popping up all over the place like mushrooms in a cow pasture after a summer rain.

In the face of that kind of fast-paced change, what was an experienced, real journalist to do in these times, five years after the heralded advent of the new millennium?

There was all this anonymous defamation on some sites; on others, it was mostly self-congratulatory navel-gazing, like reality TV. Ugh!

Could the Free Press and American Democracy survive both Bush — and blogs?

Gawd only knew.

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