Mississippi 2010: Lynchings and Double Life Sentences

UN under fire for 'regrettable' move to reduce protection for gay people
A Culture War has broken out at the United Nations over whether gay people should be singled out for the same protections as other Minorities whose lives are threatened. The battle will come to a head tomorrow when the General Assembly votes to renew its routine condemnation of the unjustified killing of various categories of vulnerable people. It specifies killings for racial, national, ethnic, religious or lingu ADVERTISEMENT istic reasons and includes Refugees, indigenous people and other g...

The Boy from Yazoo City
Dec 27, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 15 • By Andrew Ferguson Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Governors move about in a bubble. From home to car to statehouse to plane, from ribbon-cutting to banquet to car to home, they are cushioned in a space built by bustling aides and scary-looking troopers in buzz cuts and plain clothes. In the bubble the governor is king, pasha of his own status-sphere, a singular figure of unchallengeable importance. There’s no one else qu...

Barbour in the civil rights era
The Standard profiles Haley Barbour on the cover of its new issue, a story that explores, among other things, his having grown up in, but not really of, the Civil Rights era. If the history of Mississippi in the '60s now seems dominated by that story, it wasn't central to Barbour's experience, apparently: In interviews Barbour doesn’t have much to say about growing up in the midst of th...

In Defense of Lobbying
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) tells the Weekly Standard why he doesn't think his background as a highly-paid Washington, D.C. Lobbyist should disqualify him from running for president. Said Barbour: "The first thing a president's going to have to do when he takes his hand off The Bible is start lobbying. He's going to need to lobby Congress. He's going to need to lobby the Bureaucracy. He's going to need to lobby the governors. He's going to need to lobby our allies and our international c...

Ivory Coast descending into chaos, claims UN
The United Nations has received hundreds of reports of people being abducted from their homes at night by armed assailants in Military uniform and said there is growing evidence of "massive violations of Human Rights" since Ivory Coast's disputed election. The statement from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights yesterday came a day after the UN said it would remain in Ivory Coast despite demands from the man refusing to give up the presidency that thousands of peacekeepers get out of the ...

'Dozens killed' in Ivorian unrest
More than 50 people have been killed in post-election violence in Ivory Coast amid growing reports of abductions, the UN has said. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said the Deaths had occurred in the past three days. More than 200 people were also injured. Incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo says he has won the 28 November poll. The UN and major powers have recognised Mr Gbagbo's rival, Alassane Ouattara, as the winner. Mr Gbagbo has demanded that all foreign peaceke...

Gunmen kill mother protesting over slain daughter
Shot dead ... Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, centre, seen here reacting after hearing the verdict in the case of the Murder of her daughter. Photo: Reuters Outraged when judges freed the main suspect in her daughter's killing, Marisela Escobedo Ortiz launched a one-woman Protest across from government offices in northern Mexico. Now she's dead too. In a brazen killing caught on videotape, a gunman chased Escobedo and shot her at close range in front of the Governor's Office Building in the capital of ...

GOP 2012 Primary: Populists vs. Managers
National Journal: As the 2012 Republican pre­sidential race begins to coalesce, the field is dividing between Populists and managers. The most prominent Populists are former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The leading manager is Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts, although he could face competition from such current governors as Indiana's Mitch Daniels, Mississippi's Haley Barbour, and, conceivably, New Jersey's Chris Christie. Oneti...

8 in 10 Terrorism Plots Foiled by General Public and Law Enforcement Officials
Al-Qaeda has called upon its supporters to conduct attacks on U.S. soil this Holiday Season. With the ever-present threat from Militant groups, it is important to remember that individual citizens like you are most responsible for thwarting these schemes. Over the last decade, the general public and Law Enforcement officials have stopped over 80 percent of potential attacks in the U.S. Several planned attacks were uncovered after an individual overheard something suspicious and reported it to ...

6 charged with robbing South Side barbershop
Six people were charged with robbing two people inside a South Side barbershop earlier this week, officials said today. The Robbery happened Wednesday in a barbershop on the 40 block of East 112th Place at about 2 p.m., according to Chicago Police officials. Shortly after the Robbery police were approached by the Victims who informed them that they were inside the barbershop when several armed men entered the business and robbed them, police said. Police officials said that after the Robbery th...

News from a different perspective
Original Source GRAPHICAL PDF VERSION THE GLORIOUS HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE (Friday Church News Notes, December 17, 2010, www.wayoflife.org [email protected], 866-295-4143) - We celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible in 2011, and it is not merely another translation. Its heritage and the manner in which it was created are unique. The early record of the English Bible is one of the most fascinating chapters of church history and reads almost like a novel. The history ...

Jim Corr: Top-down engineered financial crash designed to take over Europe
There are fresh demonstrations in Madrid against severe Budget cuts as the country tries to reduce its massive Debt. Spain has been tipped as the next Eurozone economy at risk of needing a Bailout, but some say it could be too big to save. RT talks to Jim Corr, a Political Activist and musician from the Irish band the Corrs. Source: RT ...

Companies Shun Mexico as Violence Spirals
Dec. 14: A woman is held back by police as she reacts while seeing a relative dead lying on the ground after he and another man were killed by gunmen in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Mexico City—Growing numbers of companies are deciding to limit their investments in Mexico because of spiraling drug-related violence in one of the world's most important Emerging Markets. The latest is Swedish appliance maker Electrolux AB, which said Thursday it had chosen Memphis, Tenn....

Casino Heists: Criminals Are Flush With Creative Ideas
There's no shortage of creativity when it comes to trying to beat the odds in Las Vegas. Granted, this week's theft of up to $1.5 million in casino chips from the Bellagio may have been one of the more direct approaches. The thief merely entered the casino, displayed a gun, pulled the chips off a table and sped away on a black motorcycle, all in less than three minutes, according to Las Vegas Police Lt. Clint Nichols. While casino heists have been down in the past decade -- Nichols said there ...

Abbas holds rare meeting with Israeli lawmakers
Ramallah, West Bank – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting Sunday with dozens of Israeli lawmakers, ex-generals and Peace Activists, urging them to tell the Israeli public that he opposes violence and is committed to reaching a peace deal. The outreach, over a lunch of meat and rice at Abbas' West Bank headquarters, appeared aimed at generating domestic pressure on Israel's hardline Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at a time when U.S.-led peace efforts seem hopeless...

US woman's body found in Jerusalem
Here's the horrible update to this story: Muslim Terrorists Stab US Woman; Second Person May Be Kidnapped in Israel. The "second person," Christine Logan, was found murdered. Obama's response will speak volumes. An American Citizen murdered in the Jihadi war on the Jews. Can we expect a robust response or his usual mealy-mouthed silence? Silence is approval. Silence is sanction. US woman's body found in Jerusalem-Beit Shemesh area J Post Police launch homicide investigati...

Fear rules
Sweden denied asylum last week to five Iraqi Christians fleeing Militant attacks in their homeland. For that, Sweden drew criticism from the United Nations. Thousands of Iraqis have fled their country since an Oct. 31 attack on a Catholic Church in Baghdad. The congregation was taken hostage by Terrorists during a Mass. Sixty-eight people were murdered. The five deported Christians were part of a group of 20 Iraqis who failed to gain asylum in Sweden and were flown out. The U.N.'s High Co...

No. 17 Kentucky rips Mississippi Valley St. 85-60
Mississippi Valley State's Jason Holmes tries to make a move on Kentucky forward Terrence Jones, right, during the first half of their NCAA college Basketball game, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, in Lexington, Ky. Terrence Jones scored 15 of his 19 points in the second half and No. 17 Kentucky rolled past Mississippi Valley State 85-60 Saturday night. Doron Lamb and DeAndre Liggins scored 16 points apiece for the Wildcats (8-2), who played the last 6:26 without coach John Calipari, who got his first ...

Smith, McPherson lead St. John's to 81-50 rout
With just over two minutes left in the game, St. John's coach Kim Barnes Arico turned to her bench looking to substitute for injured guard Shenneika Smith. There was nobody there. At least, nobody who could still play. Her roster ransacked by injuries and foul trouble, Barnes Arico had to go with four players the rest of the way Saturday. It hardly mattered in an 81-50 rout of Southern Mississippi. "It was really unbelievable," the coach said afterward. "I've seen injury bugs hamper teams before...

Mississippi defeats East Tennessee 71-50
Mississippi forward Reginald Buckner (2) dunks over East Tennessee State's J.C. Ward (44) and Isiah Brown (41) during an NCAA college Basketball game in Oxford, Miss., on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Chris Warren scored 22 points and handed out six assists as Mississippi easily handled East Tennessee State 71-50 on Saturday. Warren was 7 of 13 from the field, including 6 of 12 from 3-point range. Reggie Buckner added 16 points and blocked seven shots — both career highs. Zach Graham came off ...

Smith, McPherson lead St. Johns to 81-50 rout
NEW YORK (AP) — Eugenia McPherson scored a career-high 23 points and No. 18 St. John’s routed Southern Mississippi 81-50 on Saturday, despite numerous injuries that forced the Red Storm to finish the game with four players. Star forward Da’Shena Stevens sustained a Concussion after getting hit with an elbow early in the Red Storm’s holiday tournament. She had only one basket at that point and remains five points away from becoming the 17th player in school history to reac...

Bucknell rolls past La Salle 89-77
Mike Muscala scored 21 points and Bucknell beat La Salle 89-77 on Friday night for its first road win of the season in five tries. The Bison (5-6) won their third straight game and defeated La Salle in Philadelphia for the first time ever. Bryan Cohen added 19 points, Cameron Ayers scored 13 and Darryl Shazier had 10 for the Bison, who snapped a two-game Losing Streak against the Explorers. Bucknell led 36-28 at halftime and built a 13-point lead in the second half before La Salle trimmed it to ...

Harrell scores 20 as Virginia beats Oregon 63-48
By: HANK KURZ Jr. 12/17/10 10:01 PM Freshman K.T. Harrell scored 20 points and Sammy Zeglinski hit two big 3-pointers Friday night, lifting Virginia to a 63-48 victory against Oregon. Mustapha Farrakhan added 17 points as the Cavaliers (7-3) won their fourth straight despite being without scoring and rebounding leader Mike Scott. The senior low post player had arthroscopic surgery on his left ankle Thursday to have pieces of cartilage removed. Oregon (7-4) had its three-game Winning Streak snap...

Jews expelled from three US states
148 years ago today, on December 17, 1862, Jews were ordered expelled from the States of Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky by Union commander Ulysses S. Grant. The reason for the expulsion was alleged black market dealing in cotton by some Jews (I know the JPost wrote November 17, but go here). The order was issued on the backdrop of cotton trading between the US North and secessionist South during the war. The North was reliant on cotton from the South, and handed regulatory control over th...

Human Rights Watch slams Israel's 'illegitimate discrimination' in W. Bank
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