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...former Prentiss County chancery clerk has in deep red northern Mississippi, it's less helpful to know his party affiliation than to watch him deliver a 15-minute soliloquy on the glories of fried green tomatoes over lunch in Columbus or work the crowd at the annual Good Ole Boys and Gals political barbecue in Oxford or react to the news that squirrel dumplings would be served at a cookout in Yalobusha County. "Honey child!" Childers shouted with glee. "I think it's fair to say," he told me later, "that I'm a squirrel-dumpling kind...
...Childers, the common thread tying together Democrats is government concern for working families. As a teenager, he went to work in a convenience store after his father died, while his mother worked two minimum-wage jobs; he remembers borrowing $1,100 to get himself through Ole Miss. He's appalled by the $10 trillion national debt, but he's an economic populist who doesn't assume government spending is bad. He believes that Republicans convinced many Southerners that Democrats don't share their values because of hot-button culture issues like guns--he doesn't mention race...
...Plays in a country band called Honky Tonk Confidential, which made its Grand Ole Opry debut on Oct. 5. "I may be moderating the third presidential debate, but I'm not feeling near the pressure," Schieffer told the Washington Post of his Opry debut...
...liked their old stuff better.” Cue the eye roll as hipsters sit drinking their soy lattes at some obscure coffee house, bemoaning the downfall of their favorite little-known band at the hands of the corporate music machine. But is this nostalgia for the good ole days the annoying mark of a pretentious music “connoisseur” or simply the truth? On their fourth album, “Only by the Night,” Kings of Leon have shaved off their scruffy beards and revealed a new, much more polished sound to their...
Racial tension, of course, is not unique to Ole Miss - just this Tuesday an Obama effigy was found hanging from a tree at George Fox University in Oregon, accompanied by graffiti mentioning a scholarship program for minority and low-income students - and neither are self-segregated parties, frats, dorms or social gatherings. Many Ole Miss students, in fact, say their school comes under unfair scrutiny because of its past...