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 [...]
Number of comments: 0 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.
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 [...]
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.
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). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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' [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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.' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]