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Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie is a staff writer at The American Prospect.

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School of Hard Knocks, and Lawlessness.

Jamelle BouieNov 30, 2010

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This, from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, is absolutely incredible:

"Our Position Is Thoroughly Identified With the Institution of Slavery."

Jamelle BouieNov 30, 2010

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Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, and while some white Southerners have chosen to commemorate it with an acknowledgment that the war was absolutely about slavery, others would rather revel in the fantasy that the "peculiar institution" had nothing to do with it:

Dominion Over the Earth?

Jamelle BouieNov 29, 2010

In Genesis 1:28, God -- or at least, the ancient Israelite version -- told the newly created Adam and Eve to establish their reign over the Earth, "God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Fast-forward to the present, and some right-wing evangelical Christians are taking that message very seriously:

The Federal Pay Freeze Is Bizarre, Self-Defeating, and Pointless.

Jamelle BouieNov 29, 2010

To jump off from Tim's post, it's worth pointing out just how underpaid federal workers are compared to their private-sector counterparts, especially after President Obama's decision to adopt and reinforce the conservative idea that government workers are way overpaid.

Violence Against Young Women: Still a Problem.

Jamelle BouieNov 29, 2010

At the risk of getting too bleak today, here's a story that was tucked away on the "Nation" page of The Washington Post's website:

A 20-year-old Pennsylvania college student who vanished last week while on Thanksgiving break in her hometown in suburban Syracuse, N.Y., was killed by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, a prosecutor said Saturday.

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said 21-year-old Steven Pieper of Liverpool, N.Y., was arrested on a charge of murder in the death of Jenni-Lyn Watson, a junior dance major at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa. [...]

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