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Est. 2011

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Picture of the Day. Claire Felicie’s series of portraits of Marines before, during and after their tours of duty in Afghanistan are touching and powerful. Above are Jasper, Age 21 and Luke, Age 25. Visit her website to see more of her photography of Marines in Afghanistan, especially her series of portraits of them holding their lucky charms. Also check out the Lens Culture post on this series.

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[Republicans are] turning the clock back to the days of Jim Crow.

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)

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I very much doubt that, Barb.

And, apparently, you need a lesson on Jim Crow laws, Barbie. Allow me.

The “Jim Crow” laws were a whole series of measures intended to keep blacks and whites apart, living lives that were “separate but equal” in all kinds of ways. They were not, as Barb inferred, simply about keeping blacks from voting.

On the books from the end of reconstruction until the U.S. Supreme Court began to chip away at them in its landmark 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the “Jim Crow” laws were a stain on our national character, one put there—and here is why the subject is dangerous for Barbara Lee to bring up—by the Democrats.

The fact that the Voting Rights Act was pushed through Congress by a Democrat—Lyndon Johnson—does not erase the party’s history of support for institutionalizedracism. LBJ was only able to get the bill through with the support of Republicans, led by Senate GOP leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois.

The Democratic Party’s longtime love affair with segregation is undeniable. Who stood up for “Jim Crow” when President Eisenhower tried to enforce desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas’ Central High School? Democrats like Arkansas Gov. Orvall Faubus, who called out the state’s National Guard to prevent black students from entering the school. It was a Democrat, Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who famously proclaimed “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” And it was a Democratically-controlled Georgia legislature that picked nationally-known segregationist Lester Maddox to be their state’s 75th governor in 1966.

And those are just a couple examples of the long history of Democrats and segregation.  And it’s not just Dixie Democrats (meaning regular ones) but even today, well known Democratic heroes such as Bill Clinton spout off their true feelings regarding race when they think no one is listening:

“A few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee”

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We journalists are probably too bleary-eyed after a sleepless night to understand the full significance of what has just happened in Brussels. What is clear is that after a long, hard and rancorous negotiation, at about 5am this morning the European Union split in a fundamental way.
In an effort to stabilise the euro zone, France, Germany and 21 other countries have decided to draft their own treaty to impose more central control over national budgets. Britain and three others have decided to stay out. But whether the agreement does anything to stabilise the euro is moot. (via theeconomist)

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Capital punishment is expensive! Since California reinstated the death penalty in 1978, it’s executed 13 people and with a grand total of $4 billion in related spending, that works out to a cost of $308 million per person, reports the Los Angeles Times. The new findings come from a study by U.S. 9th Circuit Judge Arthur Alarcon and Loyola Law School professor Paula Mitchell. The goal of the study was to present options on how to curb state budget costs. “The authors outline three options for voters to end the current reality of spiraling costs and infrequent executions,” reports Carol Williams, “fully preserve capital punishment with about $85 million more in funding for courts and lawyers each year; reduce the number of death penalty-eligible crimes for an annual savings of $55 million; or abolish capital punishment and save taxpayers about $1 billion every five or six years.” The Times notes that a “death penalty prosecution costs up to 20 times as much as a life-without-parole case” with the least expensive death penalty trail costing $1.1 million more than the most expensive parole case for life-without-trial.
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One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.

Nancy Pelosi. (via politicalprof)

Woah Pelosi.  Did they not transcribe the evil laugh at the end of that sentence?

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