May 27, 2005 -
It's offical: David Wilkins, Speaker of the South Carolina House, has been confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Canada, a country with which the U.S.
May 27, 2005 -
A couple smaller points I didn't make in my last post about the Durham cross burnings, because that post was getting way too long:
May 27, 2005 -
I made a brief stop at vigil in downtown Durham, site of one of the three cross-burnings that scarred our city Wednesday night (couldn't stay long, the kids were really cranky). Somehow I missed Pam Spaulding, who was also there and gives a good run-down on the vigils here.
May 26, 2005 -
How the Texas legislature became the fine deliberative body it is today. From the Associated Press (via truthout):
May 26, 2005 -
Continuing with the theme of atavistic racist behavior: this goes back a few years, but Rex Chapman, one-time "Boy King of Kentucky," has recently been giving interviews about some
May 26, 2005 -
Sometimes, despite everything you think you know about progress, human decency, the New South, and all that, the history we so often want to forget slouches rudely into the open. Last night, for the first time in recent memory, the Institute's hometown, Durham, North Carolina, was the site of three cross-burnings.
May 25, 2005 -
Readers of Facing South may not know this, but today is a special day on the far-right evangelical circuit.