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Confederate Flag May Soon Appear on Vanity License Plates
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe Confederate flag is one step closer to being featured on some Florida license plates, after a federal judge ruled the state's process for approving specialty plates unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge John Antoon sided with the Sons of Confederate Veterans, ruling that a state law allowing the legislature to approve specialty plates violates the group's First Amendment right to free speech. florida-scv.org Confederate heritage specialty sample license plate. The Florida branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans sued the state after its 2008 application to approve a ...
Elton John in Us Weekly: Too Hot for an Arkansas Grocery
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyArkansas has a way of making it onto the national stage -- and sometimes the publicity isn't very complimentary. The latest from Bill Clinton's home state: Harps grocery store in the small town of Mountain Home in northern Arkansas deemed a magazine story on gay singer Elton John to be obscene. The store placed gray "family shields" over copies of the Us Weekly magazine, which features the singer, his partner, and their new adopted baby. Printed on the shields were the words: "To protect our young shoppers." But the shields didn't stay up for long -- not after members of the Arkansas' GLBT ...
Meet the New Ole Miss Mascot: Still a Rebel, More Bear-ish
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 14) -- What qualities best befit a Rebel? The University of Mississippi announced today that it had selected a successor mascot to "Colonel Reb," the confederate-identified caricature of Southern glory (Dixie) that had cheered on the school's sports teams since 1979, The Associated Press reported. University of Mississippi Student Mascot Selection Committee / AP | Doug Pensinger, Getty Images The University of Mississippi has changes its mascot from Colonel Rebel, right, to Rebel Black Bear. In Reb's place comes an entirely new brand of rebel, and one with even more facial hair: ...
SC State Senate Majority Leader Glenn McConnell's Confederate Obsession
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- It comes as no surprise to South Carolina natives that state Senate Majority Leader Glenn McConnell likes to play dress-up. On Tuesday, Will Folks, former spokesman for Gov. Mark Sanford and self-described cuckolder of GOP gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley's husband, posted pictures to his political website of McConnell attending a party dressed as a Confederate general. In the pictures, he's surrounded by various African-Americans dressed as slaves. This was not some secret party. It was last weekend's annual board of directors meeting of the National Federation of ...
McDonnell's Virginia Proclamation a Skirmish in Ongoing Un-Civil War
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCall it the battle of Richmond. Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia issues a proclamation for Confederate History Month in the commonwealth, leaving out any mention of the buying and selling of human beings and the brutal decades of Jim Crow that followed. After taking heat for the omission, he adds a paragraph, and no one is happy -- not the Sons of Confederate Veterans, whose whispers in his ear prompted the original version, nor the descendants of those once defined as three-fifths of a person, who have been fighting to reclaim their entire selves ever since. It carried me back, all right, to ...
Coulter to Huck's Rescue on Confederate Flag
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs I reported here last week, Mike Huckabee courted pro-Confederate voters in South Carolina last week by defending the flying of the Confederate flag. On the heels of that stump speech, conservative author Ann Coulter came to Huckabee's defense, in an appearance on Fox News' Hannity and Colmes. In the clip, she incorrectly states that "...the majority of military bases in this country are named after Confederate officers. Eisenhower, Nimitz..." Coulter is known for making inflammatory statements, often while publicizing one of her many books. In the past, she has used an anti-gay slur against ...
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