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  • Why Is Mississippi's First Black Mayor Since Reconstruction Endorsing Donald Trump For President?

    03/04/2016 3:01:18 PM PST · by VitacoreVision · 29 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 03/04/2016 | Christian Datoc
    There's one main reason why Mississippi’s Charles Evers is endorsing Donald Trump for president. "I believe in him first of all because he's a businessman," the 93-year-old civil rights activist told The Clarion-Ledger Friday. "I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi." "Our catfish is shipped to China and brought back for us to buy. Put a catfish farm here." "All of us have some racism in us. Even me," he added before stating -- in reference to Trump's inflammatory positions on immigration -- that the United States is not obligated in any capacity to support illegal immigrants. Evers became...
  • A 60 Minutes Miracle

    03/29/2004 3:29:53 PM PST · by swilhelm73 · 10 replies · 117+ views
    American Spectator ^ | 3/29/2004 | Paul Beston
    I was all set to turn off 60 Minutes last night after its first segment -- a too-brief and entirely anticlimactic interview with Condoleezza Rice -- but if I had, I would have missed a small miracle. Judge Charles Pickering finally got the public hearing he deserved, and the competence, courage, and decency of the man shined through. Pickering was nominated by President Bush to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001, but his appointment was blocked by Senate Democrats through 2003. Finally in January of this year, Bush made a recess appointment for Pickering. But when that...