Politics

March 23, 2006 - You may recall that former Atlanta Mayor and civil rights activist Andrew Young's company recently signed on with Wal-Mart to help rehabilitate their image. Yesterday Young made a personal appearance at a Wal-Mart grand opening in Atlanta:

March 22, 2006 - The Devil went down to Georgia, and so did former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed. State Republicans aren't happy about what his candidacy for Lt. Governor are doing to their political prospects, reports Political Wire:

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March 20, 2006 - Rob Christensen, political reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer, had an interesting column yesterday on how North Carolina has largely spurned religious-right politics that have overtaken other states:

March 17, 2006 - Yesterday, by a vote of 348-71, the House approved a measure to provide $19.1 billion for cleanup and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. H.R.

March 16, 2006 - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco lobbyist, vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes to $1 and reduce the sales tax on groceries by half from its current rate of 7%.

March 16, 2006 - So, it turns out the "major announcement" was just a publicity stunt to get unsuspecting dupes to watch that horrible Hannity and Colmes show on Fox News.