Southern Politics
January 18, 2008 -
Every four years, you can always tell when the Republican presidential primaries are headed South. The claws come out, the dirty tricks ramp up -- and the political positions of the GOP hopefuls all turn sharply to the right.
November 30, 2007 -
Sometime over the last week, in a flurry of posts about New Jersey, Mike Huckabee, HUD scandals and
November 27, 2007 -
Speculation is rampant about what caused Mississippi's Trent Lott to up and announce his plans to depart the Senate by the end of the year.
November 20, 2007 -
The U.S. Supreme Court is halting executions by lethal injection until deciding whether the practice is cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the 8th Amendment. Executions in Kentucky, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas are effectively on hold until a Kentucky case is decided.
October 10, 2007 -
This year, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart ranked #1 in Fortune's list of the 500 biggest corporations in the United States, bringing in $351 billion in annual revenues.
June 20, 2007 -
The full story behind the North Carolina voting fraud caper -- a crusade led by the N.C. State Auditor's office, in tandem with a DOJ probe, which fizzled yesterday -- remains hidden, mostly because the agencies involved have refused to release any information related to the investigation.
June 18, 2007 -
This weekend, the Charlotte Observer delved deeper into the story we covered last Friday, raising questions about why the N.C.