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• Chicago Tribune - Scruggs ordered to turn over some records to State Farm

  Scruggs ordered to turn over some records to State Farm A federal judge has ordered attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs to turn over policyholder records to State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. within 15 days. The judge said Scruggs must turn over: -- All communications between Scruggs and the first engineer who found [...]
  
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  Posted: May 17, 2008, 2:48am EDT

• Appeals court to weigh execution

  The Clarion-Ledger, 5/16/8 Attorneys for condemned killer Earl Wesley Berry moved one of his appeals to a higher court Thursday, renewing an argument that has saved mentally retarded inmates from execution. Their request of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay of execution came hours after the Mississippi Supreme [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:49pm EDT

• State to take over schools

  The Clarion-Ledger, 5/16/8 The Mississippi Board of Education is expected to clear the way today for the takeover of the embattled Hazlehurst Municipal School District, a measure used only in emergencies. Critical academic and financial problems prompted the state to expedite the takeover process, officials say. The education department's Commission on School Accreditation [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:47pm EDT

• Insurance chief’s remark ridiculed

  The Sun Herald, 5/15/8 Coast readers of the Sun Herald want to know who Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney thinks he's fooling when he says that state wind pool premiums will approach pre-Katrina levels in June. "They are closer to pre-Katrina levels except that they are 75 percent more expensive," one reader commented [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:42pm EDT

• County will resubmit siren-grant application

  The Clarion-Ledger, 5/16/8 Hinds County has been instructed to resubmit its federal grant application seeking $1.6 million to replace 62 warning sirens. Some of the sirens didn't work when tornadoes swept through the area on April 4. At least 16 sirens are not working now. County Emergency Operations Director Larry Fisher said he [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:28pm EDT

• Miss. senators defy White House, vote for farm bill

  The Clarion-Ledger, 5/16/8 Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker joined most of their GOP colleagues on Thursday in voting for a massive farm bill that has drawn a veto threat from President Bush. The bill would safeguard the federal cotton program, which was under attack by groups that wanted to cut subsidies. But [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:24pm EDT

• $1.7 Billion In Katrina Grants Remain Unspent

  WAPT, 5/16/8 The Mississippi Gulf Coast was devastated by Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, 2005. Now, two years and nine months later, state officials said that it will take just as long to dispense the billions of dollars in Katrina aid promised by the federal government. "To a certain extent we're breaking [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:18pm EDT

• Special session: Agency a pawn in ad dispute

  The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 5/16/8 The House Ways and Means Committee is within its rights to consider how much the state spends each year on advertising, and lawmakers are within their rights to scrutinize the state's employment agency. But combining both is counterproductive. The committee met Wednesday to discuss the state Department of Employment [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:15pm EDT

• Sid Salter - Easley: Damning himself with faint praise…

  Easley: Damning himself with faint praise... Miss. Supreme Court Justice Chuck Easley finally decided to only run for ONE high court seat at a time, which is progress I suppose. But in doing so, he comes right back and gives our reporter this nugget: Easley said voters should support him because [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 7:15pm EDT

• NOONAN - Pity Party

  Pity Party Many are ambivalent, deep inside, about the decisions made the past seven years in the White House. But they've publicly supported it so long they think they . . . support it. They get confused. Late at night they toss and turn in the antique mahogany sleigh bed in [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 5:12pm EDT

• Facility Group shakeup due to indictments

  Parker steps in to lead shaken Facility Group Ennis Parker has moved into the firm's CEO job while Facility Group founder Robert Moultrie takes time off to defend himself and his company from federal grand jury charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and "frauds and swindles." Q: What kinds of [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 4:28pm EDT

• FOLO - Another Chuck Easley ruh-oh?

  Another Chuck Easley ruh-oh? FOLO 5/15/8 [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 3:39pm EDT

• New order in McIntosh v. State Farm on Scruggs divulging documents

  Late afternoon on Thursday, May 15, Magistrate Judge Robert Walker produced an order about State Farm seeking documents from the Scruggs/Rigsby Gal document theft consortium. The order can be found here. This is a huge hammer that forces Scruggs to disclose a variety of things that he likely will not want to [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 3:12pm EDT

• Ginn: Missing person or fugitive?

  Ginn: Missing person or fugitive? The continuing investigation into the April 14 disappearance of banker Mark Ginn has turned from a missing person's case into a possible fugitive case. Bankers told authorities that Ginn worked hard and rarely took a vacation. After recovering from recent open-heart surgery, he was reportedly working from [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 3:09pm EDT

• Shooting: Proper investigation, not hysterics

  CL OPINION - Shooting: Proper investigation, not hysterics Jackson City Council President Leslie Burl McLemore is usually a pretty cool hand when it comes to divisive issues, but he's sounding more like Kenneth I. Stokes in the police shooting matter. Ward 3 Councilman Stokes is well known for shooting from the lip [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 2:43pm EDT

• NYTIMES - In the South, a Force to Challenge the G.O.P.

  In the South, a Force to Challenge the G.O.P. The sharp surge in black turnout that Senator Barack Obama has helped to generate in recent primaries and Congressional races could signal a threat this fall to the longtime Republican dominance of the South, according to politicians and voting experts. With the strong [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 2:29pm EDT

• OBAMA: NOT SO SWEET(IE)

  OBAMA: NOT SO SWEET(IE) The New York Daily News reports on Obama apologizing for calling a Detroit TV reporter “sweetie.” “ ‘Hold on one second, sweetie. We're going to do -- we'll do a press avail," Obama told inquisitive WXYZ reporter Peggy Agar. Agar ended her segment with the news that [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 2:23pm EDT

• SCRAPPLEFACE - Edwards Finally Endorses Obama, Mulls Derby Pick

  Finally Endorses Obama, Mulls Derby Pick (2008-05-15) — Former Democrat presidential hopeful John Edwards Wednesday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama’s White House bid, but said he’s still undecided about which horse to pick in the Kentucky Derby, which was run on May 3. Sen. Obama welcomed the support of the one-term senator [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 12:41pm EDT

• MCELVAINE - Paintin’ It Blue in Mississippi

  Paintin' It Blue in Mississippi This is the third long-term Republican House seat won by a Democrat in recent weeks (the other two were in Illinois and Louisiana). The Republican party threw all its putative assets into the race, beginning with race itself. GOP ads linked Childers with Barack Obama and [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 12:39pm EDT

• SLABBED - Senate Votes to Renew Flood Insurance Program Part 2: The Politics

  Senate Votes to Renew Flood Insurance Program Part 2: The Politics Rather than adding on to Nowdy’s post I’ll add the text of today’s Sun Herald Op-Ed on the S. 2284 vote. For what ever reason they mixed in this Reuters story in the online page by Kevin Drawbaugh on the [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 12:34pm EDT

Conservative Belle

• The Mood Ring

  [Editor's note: I received this joke in an email and I thought I'd try out the mobile blogging function. I hope it works. Enjoy!]
  
  The Mood Ring
  
  My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods.
  
  We've [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:47am EDT

• Happy Friday...

  Good Morning everyone. I am Stacy from Keep My Soldier Safe and will be guest blogging for a few day and have lots to tell you about.
  
  First off, I belong to two wonderful organizations, The Patriot Guard Riders and Soldiers' Angels. This weekend I [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 8:46am EDT

• This Editorial Cartoon Says It All

  
  Marshall Ramsey of the Clarion-Ledger produced this brilliant cartoon today.

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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 6:52am EDT

• Inmate Suffers Emotional Distress...

  ...due to lack of baby oil, skin lotion, hair grease and long underwear while serving a life sentence in a Mississippi prison. Break out the crying towels, y'all.
  
  Pardon me if I lack compassion and sympathy on this one.
  

  Jerry Marcus had complaints about his stay at the [...]

  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 6:40am EDT

Yall Politics

• Russert & Huckabee on Childers/Davis via RCP

  Real Clear Politics 5/13/8 [...]
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 3:39am EDT