Mississippi Political Blogwire

updated at 15:11

• Currence on a Budget

  —Oxford Mississippi.com

  Local restauranteur John Currence is currently featured on the CBS Sunday Morning website’s cooking challenge ‘How Low Can You Go?‘, where chef’s are challenged to create a three-course meal on a slim $35 budget. Winners in the competition will be invited back during their holiday extravaganza. Currence’s dish features : Garlic [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:33pm EST
  by Peter Askew

• Bennie Thompson's Reading List

  —Mississippi Congress Blog

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  The Hill asks Bennie Thompson what he likes to read.What magazines do you read regularly?
  North American Hunter. Mississippi Game & Fish.
  
  What books have most influenced your political philosophy?
  The Autobiography of Malcolm X. All the King’s Men. George Orwell’s 1984.
  
  Which author do you most [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:58am EST
  by AnnEllisSimmons

• New poll

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  Vote for your choice. Sn1, Sn2, E1, E2, EAS. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:49am EST
  

• College Gameday - Week X (Week Ten)

  —Liberal Smash

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  In keeping with the "Gotta Stay Away from any Footbaw that Matters" ploy of The Four Letter's idiot program, College Gameday, the dumbest footbaw guys in the country are holed up in Colorado Springs today for the um, uh, I guess the Army v. Air Force game. Is [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:47am EST
  by paul mitchell

• Obama, Childers...I want my money back

  —Respond Mississippi

  Number of comments: 0
  The Obama Administration said if Congress passed the $787 billion stimulus package, that unemployment would peak at 8 percent. Travis Childers listened and voted to spend that nearly one trillion dollars. Unemployment has reached 10.2 percent.
  
  I want my money back.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:49am EST
  by IamTHEresponder

• Oh Well

  —Red/Blue

  Oh well.  So much for using the issue of health care against Sen. Nunnelee.  Congressman Travis Childers has now come out against the health care reform legislation proposed by the House Democratic leadership.  Down the toilet go my ideas of using health care to upend the Nunnelee campaign (see previous posts).  [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:40am EST
  by jerenash

• Mr. Potato Head politics

  —Red/Blue

  When I was a boy, Mr. Potato Head was not an oblong piece of brown plastic with pre-fixed holes for eyes, nose, mouth and ears.  Instead, we was, well, a potato.
  
  When you got a Mr. Potato Head kit as a gift, all you got was a little bag [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:52am EST
  by AndyTaggart

• Huge news - Mike Huckabee endorses Alan Nunnelee (R) for MS-01

  —Yall Politics

  Senator Alan Nunnelee Endorsed by Governor Mike Huckabee Today Governor Mike Huckabee and Huck PAC endorsed Senator Alan Nunnelee in his race for Congress saying: Huck PAC and Governor Mike Huckabee are proud to endorse Senator Alan Nunnelee for Mississippi Congress (CD-1). Senator Nunnelee has been a strong voice for [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:59pm EST
  

• Healthcare and The Rights of Man

  —2 Bucks Worth

  Number of comments: 0
  With our Congressional Democrats writhing about trying to find the votes to pass the latest version of so-called "Health Care Reform", I've been doing a lot of thinking about rights, obligations, and freedom.
  
  Here's the thing: everyone having health care sounds good.  Yeah.  I mean, all things being' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:55pm EST
  by 2 BUCKS

• The Fort Hood Shooting

  —2 Bucks Worth

  Number of comments: 0
  I'd like to begin by saying my thoughts & prayers go out to those who have lost loved ones in this unspeakable horror, and I pray as well that those wounded make a complete (and hopefully speedy) recovery.  And thank God for heroes and heroines like this lady.[...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:25pm EST
  by 2 BUCKS

• Radio Show of Shows: Part II

  —Jackblog

  Transcript from this morning's show: (musical stylings of Happy Mondays fades) FJ:Good morning and good grief, this is Fearless Jackson and you are listening to your favorite morning radio show in the entire neighborhood. How is the morning pizza? Short broadcast today since the mailman keeps forgetting to collect the mail around [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:19pm EST
  

• Eli Lilly asks judge to toss Hood’s contributor’s lawsuit

  —Yall Politics

  Eli Lilly asks judge to toss Hood's contributor's lawsuit Before Eli Lilly & Co. decides to settle Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's Zyprexa lawsuit, it wants a federal judge to take a look at a recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court. Eli Lilly says the Court addressed issues relevant to its [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:28pm EST
  

• Protestors Demand Epps Stop Inmate Abuse

  —JFP: Noise

  by Adam Lynch November 6, 2009 Members of the Southeastern Christian Association, Operation Help Civil Rights Group, and Mothers of Inmates protested outside Mississippi Department of Corrections headquarters on President Street in Jackson today, lobbying for fair treatment of sons and husbands who are inmates in MDOC correctional facilities. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:30pm EST
  

• JFP People of the Day: Barbara Taylor and Jerry Mosley

  —JFP: Noise

  by Ward Schaefer November 6, 2009 Barbara Taylor and Jerry Mosley are walking together this weekend. Tomorrow, Taylor will lead a team from the Community Services Department of the Mississippi State Hospital in NAMIWalks, a benefit for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:10pm EST
  

• Here’s What’s Happening this Weekend

  —JFP: Noise

  by Amanda Kittrell November 5, 2009 Two words for this weekend: Mistletoe Marketplace. If you haven't even begun to think about the upcoming holidays, this annual event presented by the Jackson Junior League will get you so psyched for everything Christmas that you just might sit on Santa's lap this year.' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:05pm EST
  

• New Look, New Name for Downtown Restaurant

  —JFP: Noise

  by Ward Schaefer Suniora Page bounced back from bad luck to a new career. After being laid off from her job as a manager at the Nissan plant in Canton in October 2008, Page took a job as a cashier at Miller's Grocery in the City Centre building downtown. When she [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:00pm EST
  

• Medicaid director sued over comments about AG Hood

  —Yall Politics

  Medicaid director sued over comments about AG Hood A Lee County resident is suing Medicaid Executive Director Bob Robinson for comments he made regarding Attorney General Jim Hood. In a September hearing of the Legislative Budget Committee, Robinson accused Hood of not prosecuting a case of Medicaid fraud. Robinson's accusations were further [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:52pm EST
  

• U.S. News - Haley Barbour Gets Some Credit for Virginia, New Jersey Wins

  —Yall Politics

  U.S. News - Haley Barbour Gets Some Credit for Virginia, New Jersey Wins Credit Mississippi Governor and former Republican Party National Chairman Haley Barbour and the Republican Governors Association he runs for helping push Republicans into the victory column in the two gubernatorial races this year, say several GOP and conservative [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:37pm EST
  

• GINGRICH: Barbour had best remarks on GOP victories

  —Yall Politics

  GINGRICH: Barbour had best remarks on GOP victories HANNITY: All right, but if we look at -- the numbers that really stood out to me, in New Jersey, from a year ago, it was the 20-point swing because Obama won that state by 15 points, Christie won by 5. It [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:31pm EST
  

• Breaking: CQ - Former Eupora mayor Henry Ross considering testing Nunnelee for Childers seat

  —Yall Politics

  Breaking: CQ - Former Eupora mayor Henry Ross considering testing Nunnelee for Childers seat Despite an impressive first fundraising filing and support from state and national Republicans, Republican state Sen. Alan Nunnelee may not be able avoid a primary next year in his effort to knock off Democratic freshman Rep. Travis [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:22pm EST
  

• The Hill Q&A: Mabus discusses priorities since taking over the Department of the Navy

  —Yall Politics

  The Hill Q&A: Mabus discusses priorities since taking over the Department of the Navy Ray Mabus, who took the reins of the Department of the Navy in May, has moved aggressively to outline energy efficiency efforts for the Navy and Marine Corps and is also clearing a path for women to [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:19pm EST
  

• Defectors Among the House Democrats

  —Yall Politics

  Defectors Among the House Democrats Representative Travis Childers of Mississippi said that he would oppose the House health care bill because it was simply too expensive at a time of economic crisis for the nation. “First and foremost, I cannot vote for legislation with this big of a price tag in today’s [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:16pm EST
  

• Barbour seeks more power to cut

  —Yall Politics

  Barbour seeks more power to cut Barbour is asking top lawmakers to consider giving him - and future governors - the ability to slice budgets up to 10 percent when the Legislature is not in session. Currently, he can cut up to 5 percent without legislative approval, but anything greater requires every [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:14pm EST
  

• Harper votes to extend unemployment benefits

  —Yall Politics

  Harper votes to extend unemployment benefits HARPER VOTES TO EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS; HOMEBUYER TAX CREDIT WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Gregg Harper (R–Miss.) today voted for legislation to extend unemployment benefits to jobless workers in Mississippi and expand a homebuyers’ tax credit that was set to expire November 30, 2009. “With national unemployment [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:11pm EST