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June 19, 2009

Bennie Thompson prepared to vote against apology for slavery

Bennie Thompson prepared to vote against apology for slavery The Senate passed a resolution Thursday calling on the U.S. to apologize officially for the enslavement and segregation of millions of African-Americans and to acknowledge “the fundamental injustice, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws.” The resolution, sponsored with little fanfare by Sen. Tom…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 19, 2009

MINOR – Health care reform is needed, but there the agreement ends

Health care reform is needed, but there the agreement ends Senior Republican Sen. Thad Cochran in a recent column sounded gung-ho for medical care reform. President Obama is gung-ho for medical care reform. So the two should be on the same page to solve the nation’s most crying social need — the 46 million Americans…