Much is made of her status as the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. Less attention is given to her likely status as an “anchor baby.”
Conservatism
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Report: South Urgently Needs an ‘Infrastructure of Opportunity’
At the root of the uncertainty lies a pervasive doubt: whether the South can sustain the American Dream of each generation moving up and doing better than previous generations.
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Fox News, Where Conservative Senior Citizens Get to Look At Half-Naked ‘Girls’
Give it a thin veneer of moral condemnation, and it’s all good.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Chart of the Day: What Republicans Really Want
Guess what Republican voters are expecting from the people they just elected?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Progressive Midterm Victories You Didn’t Hear About — And Some That Could Still Happen
Across the nation, voters passed measures against fracking and abortion restrictions, and for the minimum wage, paid sick leave, public safety and gun reform.Â
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Anti-Choice ‘Personhood’ Measures Fail in North Dakota and Colorado
But in Tennessee, an anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution could go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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GOP’s Neo-Confederate Theocrat Wins Council Seat in One of Richest U.S. Counties
Voters were looking for something new when they elected Michael Peroutka to run as a Republican for a seat on Maryland’s Anne Arundel County Council. What they got was something very old—like ante bellum kind of old.
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Red State, Blue State: Polarization and the American Situation
The country is stuck but it is not stationary. Some things are changing—just not at the federal level.
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When Guns Trample Speech, Do We Have a Democracy?
A speech by feminist Anita Sarkeesian was canceled by Utah State University because, even under the threat of a massacre, the state demands that guns cannot be prohibited in public spaces.
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Rand Paul’s Millennial Quest: A Little Libertarian, A Lot of Something Else
Win or lose, the neo-libertarian stands to change the DNA of the Grand Old Party.
