Category Archives: Southern Strategy

South Carolina’s AG is Full of Crap

Alan Wilson, South Carolina’s AG (pictured right) has notified the US Justice Department of 953 cases of possible vote fraud. Mind you, South Carolina is in near-open revolt these days over a voter ID law that shamelessly reduces minority participation … Continue reading

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Jimmy Carter Educates Piers Morgan on Dog Whistlin’

By Emilia1956 Dog whistlin’, Piers, doesn’t mean a person is really racist. It just means he knows how to use coded words to appeal to the people who are.

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Morning Awful: White Hands at the Ballot Box

South Carolina was the heart of darkness during slavery days. Not only did South Carolinians start the Civil War, theirs was the only state that never raised a Union regiment (yes, Southerners did fight and die for the Union cause). … Continue reading

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Best Blogger/Worst Blogger

In taking down a sports writer, Oliver Willis demolishes the stupid circus around Tiger Woods: The media hasn’t done anything to Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods did all of this to himself by not being able to keep it in his … Continue reading

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GOP Civil Rights Hall of Fame

Why are there no Republicans in the Civil Rights hall of fame? This is the same Texas Board of Education that erased liberals from the civics books. This is Orwell, folks: Day by day and almost minute by minute the … Continue reading

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Exploiting Economic Ignorance

aTimothy Egan of the New York Times describes the rhetoric of a tea party pundit: Who is Williams? A garden variety demagogue who calls Obama “an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug” and the Democratic party “a domestic enemy” of America. … Continue reading

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Last Stand of the Culture Warriors

Politico.com covered House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) giving a speech about bipartisanship at a Georgetown University forum today. Hoyer said that if Republicans could write half of every bill that would be “the kind of bipartisanship that would make … Continue reading

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The South Shall Lose Again

Today, Left In Alabama notes an incredible miscalculation by the GOP. For not only have the Republicans lost America, they are losing the south. Admitted that voting patterns seem to show a different story (white southerners turned out in droves … Continue reading

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