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Kenny Stokes Wants a Bridge Named for Frank Melton

Buried deep within the city council's 78-item agenda for Tuesday, is a proposed resolution from Jackson Councilman Kenneth Stokes to name the Pearl Street Bridge for the controversial late Mayor Frank Melton. It's unclear what Stokes's motives are beyond the fact that he was an ally of Melton, who died …

Has 'Us vs. Them' Politics Taken Its Toll on Conservatism?

Call it "us vs. them politics"—like National Memo does in this piece—or what I call the "virtue of selfishness" that has been pushed for the last 30 years by conservative think tanks and pundits, but it boils down to this—social conservatives in this country like to blame the "other" for …