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Daily Journal to Barbour: Come Clean

The Daily Journal in Tupelo continues to do Mississippians proud by calling on Gov. Haley Barbour to come clean about his financial ties to his (former?) D.C. lobbying firm. In an editorial Sunday, the Daily Journal wrote:

I won a prize for my poem!

My poem and profile was also featured in this month's Nappy News, and here it is:

At the A Nappy Hair Affair Web site, anyone can participate in a monthly Napfirmations contest where you can submit a writing that is a positive affirmation about people of African descent. It can be written by you or someone else, and it can be a quote, poem, or anything along those lines. I submitted my "Nappy-Headed" poem and won for the month of September. YES! They sent me a T-shirt and a "Love & Nappiness" CD with songs and poetry. I will also get a chance to have a phone conversation with the founder of A Nappy Hair Affair, Linda "Mosetta" Jones. I'm excited about that because I have wanted to meet her after reading her "Nappyisms" book. Hopefully, we'll get to chat this month.

Did Thompson Protect Barbour, GOP in 1990s?

The official entry of Fred Thompson into the presidential fray is causing some old GOP problems to be pulled from the memory hole and given a fresh light in a time when corruption doesn't pay like it did a few years back. Specifically Media Matters is reporting that The New York Times, Newsweek and other media failed to report what really happened when Thompson chaired a 1997 Governmental Affairs Committee that was supposedly investigating Republican campaign-finance scandals, including the National Policy Forum, a sham group set up by then RNC Chairman Haley Barbour to collect money for the GOP. Media Matters:

Isbister and Ladd to Host Radio JFP Friday Noon

Listen is as Laurel Isbister and Donna Ladd bring you Radio JFP this week on WLEZ-FM, 103.7. Listen to the live stream at here.

Is Barbour Fibbing in his TV Ads?

John Arthur Eaves, and Cotton Mouth, seem to think so. Check out their analysis.

Injustice in Noxubee

There was a story in yesterday's New York Times that reminded me of the Cedric Willis story.

Language of the Absurd

Despite its ungainly headline, AP ran an excellent story about the absurdity of some Mississippi politicians' anti-immigrant rhetoric, delivered just in time for the election cycle.

BREAKING: Kaze Suspended from Kim Wade Show for Anti-Bush Comments.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Hip-hop artist and activist Kamikaze of Jackson, MS, was suspended indefinitely from the Kim Wade Show on Jackson's WJNT-Talk radio (1180 AM) for anti-Bush comments. Following a monthlong tour of the Czech Republic, Kamikaze was set to return as Wade's co-host, but was informed just moments before going on the air. The reprimand, which stemmed from one angry listener, was based on comments Kamikaze made in his JFP blog and in his column in the Jackson Free Press.

Talking About the Dee-Moore Murders

I just got a link to a radio interview I did with Pokey Anderson of "The Monitor," a progressive news analysis show on KPFT out of Houston. I almost missed doing this interview because Todd and I were in Destin and on the beach all that day (Aug. 26). I had gone back inside to get something and noticed messages and called her back. She interviewed me as I sat on the balcony; I swear you can hear the waves in the background! She took the time to ask great questions and truly seemed humbled by the topic of bringing justice after so many years, as we all should be. Cheers to her. Here's the Monitor's site, and a link to the audio. Our interview starts about a fourth of the way into the audio strip.

A Giuliani-Barbour Ticket: Just Imagine

I just ran into this post on the Think Progress blog that is basically saying what I was earlier about all the revelations about his "blind trust" and his Katrina finagling hurting Barbour's chances at a veep nod. (And a hat tip to Think Progress for finding and linking my "Unholy Alliance" story about Barbour to the line-up of potential "corruption" stories.) I wrote earlier today about how Haley is becoming more poison by the day on the national scene:

Harrison Asking the Right Barbour Questions

Up in Tupelo, Daily Journal reporter Bobby Harrison is asking the right questions, as opposed to the ridiculous posturing coming out of The Clarion-Ledger's Sid Salter. He writes today about BlindTrust-Gate:

Salter: Get Your ‘Manufactured' Facts Straight

The Cottonmouth Blog is taking Sid Salter to task for his bizarre and rather desperate attempts to defend Haley Barbour and his blind trust, especially about a snipe Salter took at Jamie Franks for trying to strengthen ethics laws (for political reasons)—that Cottonmouth says just doesn't check out:

Worst Newspaper in the U.S. At It Again

OK, so here comes The Clarion-Ledger after the election with a story about Robert Smith and his history, including his getting in trouble in Madison County for calling a law enforcement agent a name:

Week 4 in the Czech Republic: Revelations

By now if you're reading this Ive already made the gruelling flight back to the states and have touched down safely in Jackson. Reading some of the responses to my last blog post, it apparently will be to a few people's chagrin LOL.

Hit-and-run driver injures child in Presidential Hills

This happened on Lyndon B. Johnson Dr. It will probably be on WAPT or WJTV at 10:00 tonight.

According to a neighbor, a truck hit a small boy and continued to go down the street with the boy being dragged under the truck. The driver lost control, hit a mailbox and then went into the neighbor's yard, damaging a bush in the process. The boy somehow got loose - maybe he was propelled - and the driver then sped away. I do not know the age of the boy, but from a distance, he looks like he may have been around six. I think he was alert when the ambulance took him to the emergency room. His older brother was crying and angry, so I am concerned about him and how he is coping with this.

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