February 24, 2010 -
The Obama administration reached a historic settlement last week in a lawsuit claiming decades of racial discrimination against African-American farmers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
February 23, 2010 -
As I wrote last week, Barack Obama is a popular president -- just not in the South, a region where his extremely low approval ratings, especially among Southern whites, pull down the national averages.
February 23, 2010 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest A war of words is raging over the impact of the Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus program, which is now one yearold. Conservative members of Congress are mounting a relentless assaulton what they see as an abject failure, even as many of them unabashedlypromote and at least implicitly take credit for individual American
February 22, 2010 -
The Alabama state senate has passed a pair of bills that would improve protections for American Indian burial grounds, a move that comes amid growing public outcry over destruction of sacred sites in that state and elsewhere in the Southeast.
February 19, 2010 -
By Bob Moser, The Texas Observer We'll soon be hearing more than we ever needed to know about Joseph Andrew Stack III, the man who burned up his house and flew a suicide mission into an Austin IRS office this morning. We'll no doubt discover that neighbors and friends are shocked; that he was a quiet fellow, kept to himself, nobody imagined ... you know, the usual.