Off the Kuff: “Good for the Biden administration putting the pressure on. The Biden administration on Friday rescinded changes to a federal funding agreement, known as a 1115 waiver, that would have extended for 10 years Texas’ health care safety net for uninsured residents — teeing up a new round of negotiations before the existing waiver…
House GOP Members Want to Form an American First Caucus to Honor “Anglo-Saxon” Traditions
Bearing Drift: “There was a time when the memory of the hideous behavior of the 1930s “America First” committee was enough to keep any decent politician away from that moniker. Whether memory or decency has faded from the Republican political class is a question I leave to others….The “America First” caucus may have been scotched,…
“Medical marijuana for Mississippi now rests with state Supreme Court”
WMC5: “For months, the mayor of Madison, Mississippi has expressed concerns over the constitutionality of Initiative 65, a ballot initiated constitutional amendment that would allow doctors in the state to prescribe medical marijuana for patients. Mayor Mary Hawkins-Butler says the language in the current constitutional language that allows petitions to be put on the ballot creates a…
Medical Marijuana Bill Advancing in Alabama
AL Political Reporter: “The Alabama House Health Committee voted Thursday to give a favorable report to legislation that would legalize medical marijuana in the state of Alabama. Senate Bill 46 is sponsored by Sen. Tim Melson, R-Florence. Melson is an anesthesiologist who has worked in medical research for years. He chaired the Alabama Medical Cannabis…
LBJ = Insider, Biden = Insider, But Will Biden = LBJ?
New Day for NC: “Joe Biden’s surprisingly progressive presidency looks more like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson than his more recent Democratic predecessors – Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Now Biden has an opportunity to do something no Democrat since FDR has done: get Americans to believe their government can work…
“Georgia’s Voting Law Will Make Elections Easier to Hack”
Slate: “For example, during early voting in 2020, Georgia’s statewide voter registration database was having trouble handling the logins of election staff across the state. The problem caused extremely long lines. Georgia officials weren’t able to fix it immediately, but within a few days the issue was addressed, lines improved, and voters who might have not been able…
“McAuliffe Has Commanding Lead in Primary”
Public Policy Polling: “PPP’s newest Virginia poll continues to find Terry McAuliffe with a strong advantage in the primary for Governor. McAuliffe is at 42% with the rest of the Democratic hopefuls in single digits. Jennifer Carroll Foy and Jennifer McClellan each get 8%, Justin Fairfax 7%, and Lee Carter comes in at 4%. 29%…
AR Mayor Resists State Effort to Resist Federal Gun Laws
Political Wire: “Mayor Kevin Smith, of Helena-West Helena, said today that his city will defy any new State law preventing local law enforcement from cooperating with Federal law enforcement agencies when enforcing Federal gun crime laws,” the Arkansas Times reports. Said Smith: “My NRA voting record, as a state senator years ago, was a triple A rating…
Is a Serial Killer Targeting Transgender Sex Workers in NC?
The Daily Beast: “An unidentified transgender woman was shot and killed in a Charlotte hotel room Thursday in what was the second murder of a transgender sex worker in the North Carolina city this month. According to WSOC-TV, Charlotte police said the two shooting murders are very similar—but there’s not enough evidence to confirm a…
“White Evangelicals’ Un-Christian Attacks on Raphael Warnock Attacks Say It All”
The Daily Beast: Warnock’s church, which Ellis dismisses as insufficiently godly, is Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist, one of the oldest Black churches in the country and the former pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. It is perhaps too on-the-nose that white Republican evangelicals who publicly assert that delegitimizing Black votes is doing God’s work and believe “All Lives Matter” is…