Republican State Sen. Tim Johnson of?Mississippi recently announced his switch?to the Democratic Party?at the same time he declared his bid for?Lt. Governor in the next election. And Obamacare was the primary reason for his change,...
same-sex marriage
Most people have heard the phrase, "thank God for Mississippi," well today people can say it and actually mean it in a positive way. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves gave?same-sex couples a partial victory in...
kkk tiffany willis
This morning, I wrote a story about Anonymous's recent interactions with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). I was essentially just doing an FYI of what my friend Anomaly100 of FreakOutNation and Liberaland fame had already...
The Mississippi State Capitol (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
A neo-Confederate group in Mississippi is gathering signatures for a proposed constitutional amendment that would declare Christianity to be the official religion of the Magnolia State. The Magnolia State Heritage Campaign wants to put "Initiative 46,"...
AvaLynn Harris, being held by her mother Lacey a few days after being hurt on the playground (from the Justice for AvaLynn Facebook page)
On Tuesday, I told you about AvaLynn Harris, a five-year-old girl from Pascagoula, Mississippi who suffered grisly facial injuries on August 22 while on the playground with her kindergarten classmates--specifically, two black eyes and a...
Ronnie Agnew, executive director of Mississippi Public Broadcasting, speaking at Mississippi College's 2012 commencement. (courtesy Mississippi College's Flickr feed)
On Labor Day, "After Tiller," a documentary about the only four doctors in this country still openly performing late-term abortions after the 2009 murder of George Tiller, premiered on PBS' documentary showcase, "POV." The film...
AvaLynn Harris, being held by her mother Lacey a few days after being hurt on the playground (from the Justice for AvaLynn Facebook page)
A mother in Pascagoula, Mississippi is demanding answers after her five-year-old daughter came home from kindergarten with grisly facial injuries. The school says that the little girl fell on the playground, but the mother doesn't...
mississippi flag
By now it seems like everyone has made a video to Pharell's "Happy". It's one of those viral phenomenon that has swept the world. Yes, now my home state of Mississippi has a "Happy" video...
Craig Wilson's grandchildren (courtesy WLBT)
We all know some parts of Mississippi are several years behind the rest of the country on race relations. That doesn't make an incident in Smith County, about an hour south of Jackson, any less...
mississippi racist rednecks
A journalist visited the great state of Mississippi to interview some folks. Bear in mind, Mississippi owns the honor of being the poorest state in the union and is winning the race to the bottom...
Chris McDaniel (from his Senate campaign's Facebook)
  As many of you know, Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss) narrowly escaped having his career ended in the Mississippi Republican Senate primary. State senator Chris McDaniel forced Cochran into a runoff after running well to the...
Earlier today, the chairman of a state chapter of the College Republicans announced that he is resigning his post and becoming a Democrat because he is fed up with the growing influence and extremism of...
Victoria Wilcher
    Most human beings have a visceral instinct to protect a child. Whether in spirit, virtually via Facebook and other social media, or physically, we close ranks around the injured or threatened child. If someone is...
tea party locked hings county courthouse mississippi
      The Hinds County Mississippi Sheriffs Department is disputing the account of three Tea Party activists in regard to how they gained access to the county courthouse after hours early Wednesday morning shortly after ballot counting...
  In what appears to be a step back into the times of racial intolerance and ignorance, a Canton Mississippi Justice Court judge has been accused of assaulting a black mentally challenged teenager and calling him...
Thad Cochran on the campaign trail (from Cochran's Facebook)
Mississippi politics can be nasty and vicious. But a conservative blogger now stands accused of doing something that, even by Mississippi standards, is downright slimy. Police say that he snuck into a nursing home where...
Public Policy Polling has finished their latest Mississippi Senate race poll, and it was released Nov 19. The poll queried 502 Mississippi voters and an oversample of 422 Republican primary voters, and examines both overall...