Progressive Politics from Memphis
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Defining Anti-Choice
I don’t get emails from people challenging the words I use, well, ever, but just the other day I did receive the following email from someone who apparently didn’t want to comment on the post. Upon reading your article “Chickens and Eggs and Calls to Murder,” I wanted to bring a particular point to your…
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
Yesterday, flying high on a series of events that have turned the possibility of a change in leadership at the City Mayor’s office for the first time since I left college into a possible reality, there was more political coverage, opinion, and conjecture floating around since I moved here over 5 years ago. Honestly, it…
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Chickens and Eggs and Calls to Murder
“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, as the old question goes. If you’re a radical anti-choice/anti-contraception advocate, the egg is the same thing as a chicken. It’s being called the ”personhood strategy”, and the language is pretty broad. From the proposed ballot language: “the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being from…
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Getting Played…UPDATEDx2
UPDATE 2: The Memphis Daily News is reporting that Mayor Herenton is already packing boxes to vacate the Office of Mayor. UPDATE: As luck would have it, something more popped up while I was writing the post. Apparently an Election Commissioner, Brian J. Stephens, feels that scheduling a special election based on “hearsay, rumor and…
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Drawing the Lines – Succession in Memphis
If you’re not tired you’re not paying attention. Yesterday, Mayor Herenton issued a statement announcing his intention to delay his retirement until July 30th
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Healthcare Debate to Heat Up in July
There are a lot of things going on with the effort to reform the nation’s healthcare. Probably more than I’ll be able to distill here. Here are some of the highlights. Some of you may remember that Democratic House leaders pledged to address healthcare by July 31st. For those of you without the benefit of…