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• Ashley Morris

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  Ashley Morris, a champion of the local blogosphere, passed away yesterday. I'm pouring Jameson for you Ashley. Be well, wherever you are. [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2008, 6:01pm EDT
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• Yes We Can Obama Song by will.i.am

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  Posted: February 07, 2008, 9:41am EST
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• Barack Obama Speaks at Dr. King's Church

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  Please Lord, help Obama become President.

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  Posted: January 21, 2008, 5:32pm EST
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• New Hampshire May Indicate, Among Other Things That

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  1. I am a very stupid man.
  2. Clinton is one tough candidate who is underestimated at your own peril.
  3. Like with Tom Bradley in the 1982 California Governor's race and Harold Washington in the 1983 Chicago Mayor's race, white people often tend to not tell the truth [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2008, 12:43pm EST
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• New Hampshire Predictions

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  Democrats
  41% - Obama
  29% - Clinton
  18% - Edwards
  
  
  Republicans
  26% - Romney
  24% - McCain
  14% - Huckabee
  14% - Giulliani
  12% - Paul
  10% - Thompson
  
  
  Update
  WCBF chimes in. WCBF is predicting a McCain win, but I think he is going [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2008, 12:50pm EST
  by Southern Leftist

• What This Means For New Hampshire

  The current thinking seems to be that Romney's 2nd place finish opens the door wide open in New Hampshire for McCain. I don't think that is the case, as McCain is still unpopular with the Republican base (even though of the big 4 - Romney, Huckabee, Giulliani, and McCain - [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2008, 11:28pm EST
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• Iowa

  My prediction:
  
  Obama - 32%
  Edwards - 25%
  Clinton - 23%
  
  Huckabee - 27%
  Romney - 25%
  McCain - 17%
  
  Update:
  OBAMA!
  
  How did he win?
  - RECORD TURNOUT - 236,000 vs. 124,000 for the Democratic caucus in 2004
  - Independent Voters
  - Voters under [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2008, 4:18pm EST
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• OPP, Gusman, Midura

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  Kudos to Katie Moore at WWL-TV and Councilwoman Shelley Midura for having the guts to take on Criminal Sheriff Marlin Gusman. OPP has been a bastion of corruption, inhumanity, and dirty politics for the last 30 years, but no one has ever been willing to take that monster on. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2007, 9:42am EST
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• How Clarkson Beat Willard-Lewis

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  A lot of people did not expect Clarkson to win this race, including some of our local pundits like Clancy Dubos who thought Willard-Lewis would pull it out. What was the deciding factor in this race? Was it turnout? "Crossover" vote appeal? Race? The rotten garbage contract and Willard-Lewis's amendments [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2007, 11:04am EST
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• Dartboards with Black People In the Bullseye

  Jeff Parish City Hall, yall rock man. Nooses aren't enough for yall. No, you gotta go the extra mile and get the Deluxe Klan Kit for More Advanced Racists and get the whipping post and bonus dartboard too.
  
  Thanks for reminding us how backwards some folks here [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2007, 1:52pm EST
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• Una Anderson

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  So, these Stephanie Grace and James Gill columns have succeeded in casting further doubts in my mind for Una Anderson.
  
  
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  NOPD's Integrity
  
  The Captain of NOPD's "Public Integrity" Bureau was just arrested for a hit and run accident. Way to go Captain Gremillion. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2007, 2:06pm EST
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• Walker Hines - A Complete Fuck-Up for State Rep.

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  Walker Hines is a 23 year old son of a rich connected white Uptown guy, Bill Hines. Walker's resume:
  
  - Expelled from 2 high schools.
  - 5 different colleges in 4 years.
  - Graduated from Michigan only because they let him in as a displaced Katrina evacuee and he [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2007, 9:51am EST
  by Southern Leftist

• Council At-Large, Willard-Lewis, Inspector General

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  I was watching the WDSU Council debate and I was stunned at Cynthia Willard-Lewis's deceptiveness when she stated her support for the Inspector General and insisted her number one issue and campaign priority was fighting corruption. When the new Council had its first vote on the Inspector General, the [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2007, 12:50pm EST
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• JORDAN GOES DOWN

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  *BREAKING NEWS*
  
  Eddie Jordan is expected to resign at 2:30pm today and name Keva Landrum as the new acting District Attorney. [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 11:01am EDT
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• Eddie Jordan Obstructed Justice

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  *BREAKING NEWS*
  
  According to a reliable source, the media is about to report that Eddie Jordan harbored a fugitive, Elton Phillips, after he had committed an armed robbery and was fleeing from police. After taking refuge with Jordan, the next day Elton invaded the New Orleans East home of [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2007, 7:47pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Casinos vs. Housing for the Poor

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  This fills me with murderous rage.
  
  

  
  
  October 23, 2007, 4:04 pm
  Keeping Katrina Aid Away from the Casinos
  
  By The Editorial Board
  
  In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Americans who were appalled by the terrible conditions created by the storm urged Congress to come [...]

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  Posted: October 23, 2007, 10:50pm EDT
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• Governor's Race

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  So apparently Bobby Jindal is now running attack ads on black radio against John Georges and Walter Boasso criticizing them for donating to George Bush. I shit you not. Jindal is trying to link his opponents to Bush to depress black turnout.
  
  Wow.
  
  This campaign is just [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2007, 9:21pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Corruption

  So Mayor Nagin's City Attorney, Penya Moses-Fields, is cockblocking good government. Shocking.
  
  And in related news, Louisiana was just ranked most corrupt state in the country.
  
  Are we really even worse than New Jersey? The Mayor of Atlantic City has been doing his best [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 10:35am EDT
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• NOLA Blog Roundup

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  Adrastos
  Georges Gone Wild
  
  The man won a gay rights organization endorsement yesterday. Shocking.
  
  Moldy City
  Vote for Clarkson or Boulet
  
  I concur.
  
  YRHT
  Jindal on Jena: "We don't need outside agitators"
  
  "Why is that?"
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 10:06am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Complicated Life

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  God I love New Orleans.
  

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  Posted: September 19, 2007, 10:55am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Greenspan: The War Is About Oil

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  from the NY Times:
  
  

  
  I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
  - Alan Greenspan

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  Posted: September 17, 2007, 10:58am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Free the Jena 6

  
  
  
  Strife has Jena talking about racism
  Associated Press
  JENA — It’s not yet 8 a.m. but there’s a line of men waiting for a $10 haircut at Doughty’s Westside Barber Shop.With customers sitting in a row of chairs under a line of [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2007, 3:35pm EDT
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• This Made Me Laugh

  I'm a foodie, so sometimes I read the forums at NewOrleans.com, which is full of right wing food lovers. Perhaps more right wing even than foodie over there. And they seem to have a passionate hatred for Tom Fitzmorris for some reason who I have always liked.
  
  Anyway, [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2007, 11:54am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Little Shelly Calls Out Bush

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  Maybe we have some political leadership in the City of New Orleans after all. [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2007, 8:44pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• It Takes More Than A Simple Sentence

  
  
  
  
  

  Will Bush repeat Katrina failures in Minneapolis?
  
  In a visit to the collapsed bridge in Minneapolis yesterday, President Bush vowed to aid in reconstruction efforts. But the AP reports that “[n]early two years ago, with parts of New Orleans still [...]

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  Posted: August 10, 2007, 1:24pm EDT
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• March 2003: Fox's Bill O'Reilly interviews Janeane Garofalo

  From the Vault: Garofalo on O'Reilly.

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  Posted: August 09, 2007, 11:19pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• We Will Do What It Takes... To Veto Long-Awaited Legislation for Hurricane Protection

  
  
  
  
  

  And tonight I also offer this pledge of the American people: Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes. We will stay as long as it takes to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives. [...]

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  Posted: August 03, 2007, 10:00am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• #37 Steve Gleason

  
  
  
  
  

  "The doctor told me I had an outside shot to play this season, and I thought, hey, I had an outside shot to play in the NFL, too," Gleason said. "If somebody tells me I've got an outside shot at something, I'm [...]

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  Posted: August 01, 2007, 7:11am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Melrose Parish

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  I have mixed feelings about publicly airing family drama sleaze in the media.
  
  The media was not always like this. For a long time the media's conscience and unwritten code suggested that this kind of divorce court drama such as [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2007, 10:46am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Justice for Robert Davis

  
  
  
  Outrageous. It's a sad day for civil rights in New Orleans. Judge Marullo is a truly corrupt piece of shit owned by PANO. He is to crooked cops what Elloie was to street crooks. [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2007, 11:28pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Race and New Orleans

  The CITYBUSINESS Blog: Racial disharmony alive and well post-K
  
  This is just sad. We have a long way to go in New Orleans in bridging the racial divide. [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2007, 2:11pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Shameless White Collar Louisiana Thugs

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  There is a special place in hell for people like James Lindsay who has been trying to steal the home of an elderly Slidell couple through a tax sale for $1.63 in unpaid taxes that the elderly Atwood family never received notice of.
  
  Mr. Lindsay, you are [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2007, 4:26pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Senator Vitter's Diaper Fetish

  
  
  Check out YRHT for more. [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2007, 12:52pm EDT
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• Shelley Midura Asks for Eddie Jordan's Resignation

  Dear Mr. Jordan:
  
  I am writing to you today to respectfully request that you resign from the office of Orleans Parish District Attorney.
  
  I have no doubts about your intentions or your dedication or your character. By all accounts you are a fine man. But the job of [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2007, 12:05am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• BREAKING NEWS - Senator Vitter Confesses to Using DC Madam

  
  Link Here and Here
  RealPlayer Video of Vitter at his Defense of Marriage Press Conference
  
  
  
  Senator's number on escort service list
  7/9/2007, 10:31 p.m. CDT
  The Associated Press
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. David Vitter, R-La., apologized Monday [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2007, 9:50pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Well, I Guess That's One Way To Fight Public Corruption

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  Not exactly the way I'd do it, but you can't say that China doesn't take public corruption seriously. [...]
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  Posted: July 06, 2007, 3:03pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Ann Coulter - An Appeal to the Worst in the American Consciousness

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  I don't understand how any decent person can embrace someone like Ann Coulter. The fact that she has such a base is embarassing to me as a member of humankind. How does someone of my species like this look at themselves in the mirror each day? How is it [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2007, 10:06am EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• BREAKING NEWS - Dollar Bill Indicted

  Grand jury to indict Jefferson in bribery investigation
  By AP
  
  2007-06-04 12:27 PM CST
  
  WASHINGTON - An indictment charging Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, in a long-running bribery investigation is being announced Monday, federal officials said.
  
  The indictment is being handed up in U.S. District Court in [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2007, 1:15pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist

• Dollar Bill Gets It Done for New Orleans

  You may not ever see me write another good thing about Bill Jefferson, but this is pretty important stuff ensuring the 10% FEMA match waiver and also having the community disaster loan forgiven in the supplemental. Even if I don't like you, don't trust you, and think you are [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2007, 5:29pm EDT
  by Southern Leftist