Editor’s Note: We understand the Associated Press is now working on a story about this. For the record, you heard it here first, since we had it first. MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Public Service Commissioner George C. Wallace Jr., whose father famously vowed to defend racial segregation “forever” in a 1963 speech from the...
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George Wallace Jr. Gives Major Speech to Hate Group
Connecting the Dots
Everyone Who Opposes Bush Is A Terrorist? by Glynn Wilson While the revelation that former FBI agent Mark Felts was Deep Throat dominated the attention of reporters on the national level this week, and the hung jury in the trial of deposed HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy dominated the attention of the local press corps.,...
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Donald Watkins Firm: Scrushy Will Be Acquitted
Most of Richard Scrushy’s defense team flew home for the weekend Friday night and skipped the hung jury celebration on the Southside of Birmingham. Only Donald Watkins showed up at Lou’s Pub to down a few Heineken’s and field questions from reporters. Jurors in the case went home dejected and split. Presumably, the prosecution...
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Jury in Scrushy Case Hung On All Counts
The white smoke went out at the Hugo Black federal courthouse in downtown Birmingham Friday afternoon. The jury in the fraud trial of deposed HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy is hopelessly deadlocked on all counts, meaning the case in on the verge of a hung jury and a mistrial. The judge sent them back with...
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Truth and Deceit on High
“The trauma of Watergate, which brought down a president who seemed pathologically compelled to deceive, came toward the end of that extended exercise in governmental folly and deceit, Vietnam. Taken together, these two disasters, both of which shook the nation, provided a case study in how citizens should view their government: with extreme skepticism,”...
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Campaign For America’s Future
Live on C-SPAN, there’s an interesting conference going on in Washington, D.C., to help foster the “counter revolution” to Newt Gingrich, George Bush and Tom Delay’s “conservative revolution.” It is a “progressive revolution” from: Take Back America.
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Deep Throat Day Two
“And so after all these years, Deep Throat has stepped out from behind the curtain,” writes the New York Times in an editorial today. This light-toned commentary comes from a newspaper that got the crap beat out of it on the Watergate story. Is it interesting to compare the secret of Deep Throat to...
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Deep Throat and Alabama
Not that you can find the transcript on the stupid, fat, slow MSNBC Web site, but I just heard Al Haig say on Scarborough Country that Nixon would never have been impeached if not for Teddy Kennedy’s meeting with Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace in 1972, when the so-called Boll-Weevils, conservative southern Democrats in...
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Washington Post Confirms Felt Was ‘Deep Throat’
The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was “Deep Throat,” the secretive source who provided information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon, according to this story posted online this afternoon. In-ter-est-ing!!!...
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Ex-FBI Official Says He’s ‘Deep Throat’
W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the “Deep Throat” source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation, Vanity Fair magazine reported Tuesday in its July issue. Who will be the deep...
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WWII Letters Comfort, Six Decades Later
Living alone in a small trailer, 84-year-old Virginia Copeland said she hears the voice of her deceased husband, Bryan Copeland, through the words he wrote 60 years ago while stationed at bases in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Islands, in this memorial day portrait in the Birmingham Post-Herald. Copeland wrote of being drafted into the...
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A Tainted Memorial Day
“This Memorial Day is not a good one for the country that was once the world’s most brilliant beacon of freedom and justice,” writes Bob Herbert on today’s New York Times op/ed page. Sorry to spoil the ending, but in case you don’t get around to reading the whole column, here’s the point: “In...
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Quote of the Week
“Our enemies . . . never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” - George W. Bush, courtesy of LexRex.com with the mission of “Rescuing the Republic.”
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Connecting the Dots: You Know It’s Almost Summer When…
Editor’s Note: For any new readers of The Locust Fork, or of columnist Glynn Wilson – who pioneered this style of Web column for years at southerner.net – what you are reading here is an original take on what is intended to be a week in review column. Look for it under Categories under...
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Reuters Puts Scrushy Jury Race Makeup In Spotlight
The divided jury in the corporate fraud trial of former HealthSouth Corp. Chief Executive Richard Scrushy adjourned on Friday after a seventh day of fruitless deliberations – and his lawyers could hardly contain their delight, writes Paul Simao of Reuters in this report. Prosecutors were increasingly glum this week, doggedly rebuffing reporters’ attempts to...
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Too Much To Think Last Night?
While perusing Birmingham”s alternative newspapers online from this page off the Locust Fork News page in search of local stories about the Scrushy trial, I ran across the old column by J.R. Taylor that has been running in Birmingham for close to 20 years. Taylor long ago moved from Birmingham to Manhattan. But for...
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Scrushy Verdict: Black and White
One of Birmingham’s mediocre alternative newspapers, Black and White, is now predicting acquittal for deposed HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy in the high profile fraud trial playing out at the Hugo Black federal courthouse downtown. “The conventional wisdom holds that Richard Scrushy is about as guilty as they come. However, I don’t think the jury...
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Bush Opposition to Fuel Economy Costing Billions
A report released yesterday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) shows that Americans will spend upwards of $5 billion extra on gasoline this year due to poor automobile fuel economy policies, according to this report. Maybe folks will notice when it hits them in the pocketbook. One can hope.
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Scrushy Jurors Deadlocked on Key Conspiracy Charge
Confused and deadlocked on a key count in their sixth day of deliberations, jurors in the trial of former HealthSouth Corp. chief Richard Scrushy got a judge’s OK Thursday to move on to other charges beyond the conspiracy, the AP is reporting. “We cannot reach a unanimous decision on Count One Conspiracy.” The word...
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Fires Probed at Chemical Weapons Incinerators
The Army is investigating the frequency of fires at chemical weapon incinerators in Oregon and Arkansas, officials said late Wednesday, after five flare-ups during destruction of sarin-loaded rockets since April, according to this report in the Birmingham News today. The fires occurred as the weapons were being chopped up before being moved into the...
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New Mapping Tool Shows Nuke Blast Effects on DC
If terrorists detonated a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb inside a truck in Washington’s Dupont Circle, the blast would rip through the White House and most of the city’s downtown office district. But if terrorists detonated the same weapon from an airplane at the same point above the city, the blast path would reach Capitol Hill,...
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