If just everyone was armed, all the gun owners, security guards, and police would use their guns responsibly: A Mississippi security guard is facing charges after he shot a man.
Mississippi officials are complaining about the state's declining prison populations. Why? Because county, state, and private funding models were all built on prison profit and losing prisoners now creates budget.
Mississippi Republicans are killing a bill that would take away state control over approving exemptions for vaccinations so that children can attend schools. At least the anti-vaccination idiocy is so.
Researching the labor history post on the Black Codes, I ran across this tidbit from historian David Oshinsky: Nugent was among the lucky ones: he came back alive. More than.
And they say the South won't rise again. Pshaw: About 35 demonstrators carried Confederate battle flags Saturday morning through parts of Oxford, where university officials have decided to rename some.
Freedom Summer was 50 years ago this year and its anniversary has been pretty underreported. Anyway, this is an interesting piece from one of the white organizers about the relationship.
Poor Natchez. It turns out that people in 2014 may not be so interested in Confederate nostalgia tourism. It has no idea what to do, like you Thinner I used.
The UAW is continuing to organize the South after its catastrophic defeat in Chattanooga. It is targeting a Mississippi Nissan plant. Unlike Volkswagen, Nissan is fighting the union. The difference.
