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Shorter MSNBC.com: It"s Racist to Move a City Election to July

In compliance with a new state law, Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia, is moving up the date for its nonpartisan elections from the month of November to July, when primary elections are held. Although such a move will synchronize the jurisdiction’s non-partisan municipal election date with that of other counties in the Peach State, some Democrats are crying foul and playing the race card. Naturally, MSNBC is doing its part to join the chorus.

And so readers of the MSNBC.com website were greeted this morning with the teaser headline, “GOP revives Jim Crow tactic,” which links to Zachary Roth’s  November 22 article,

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“For years, Augusta, Georgia, has held its local elections in November, when turnout is high,” Roth noted in his opening paragraph, “But last year, state Republicans changed the election date to July, when far fewer blacks make it to the polls.”

Roth went on to explain that the federal Department of Justice had blocked such a move in years past, but the Supreme Court’s ruling invalidating Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1964 paved the way for the state to push through the date change:

The effort was blocked under the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by the federal government, which cited the harm that the change would do to minorities. But now that the Supreme Court has badly weakened the landmark civil rights law, the move looks to be back on. The city’s African-Americans say they know what’s behind it.

“It’s a maneuver to suppress our voting participation,” Dr. Charles Smith, the president of Augusta’s NAACP [sic] branch, told msnbc.

The dispute is flaring at a time when Georgia, long deep-red, is becoming increasingly politically competitive, and Democrats have nominated two candidates with famous names for high-profile statewide races next year.

Of course, there’s nothing clandestine about the move in the election date, and ultimately it’s the responsibility of every voter to make him/herself aware of the issues and candidates in local elections, but Roth insisted that the move was reminiscent of a Jim Crow practice:

In Augusta, a city with a troubled history of race bias in elections, conservatives reached back over a century to unearth a tactic that was used to keep blacks from the polls during Jim Crow: changing the date of elections.

The item linked in that passage is an abstract to a paper by a UC Irvine Law professor who compares recent Republican voting law changes to when North Carolina Democrats in 1898 pushed through election law changes with the aim of disempowering Republicans. At that time, most African-American voters in the Tar Heel State were Republicans, and they were a key to the GOP’s electoral success in the 1890s in North Carolina.

But as the professor noted in that paper, it wasn’t so much that racist Democrats in 1900 pushed back the election from November to August but that “all voters [had] to register anew” and the law “gave registrars discretion to exclude voters.”

In this case, we simply have the local election date pushed back a few months, and that in accord with the local election dates for Georgia’s counties:

Last year, Rep. Barbara Sims, a Republican who represents the area, pushed a law through Georgia’s GOP-controlled legislature that applied only to Augusta. Against the clear wishes of the city council, the law moved the city’s elections for mayor and city council from the day of the general election in November to the day of the primaries in July.

Sims said at the time the goal was to establish uniformity with other non-partisan local elections in the state, which had been moved to July under previous legislation that applied only to counties, not cities.

While Roth neglected to note this, the city of Augusta and Richmond County are one subdivision, styled Augusta-Richmond County, and so it makes sense for Augusta to move its elections to July, to match that of the state’s other counties.

But even if one disagrees on that count, it’s a legitimate debate to be had that need not descend into race-baiting. To read racism and “Jim Crow” tactics into this controversy is insulting to the real victims of Jim Crow intimidation and violence and to the intelligence of all Augusta-Richmond County voter, particularly African-American ones who, we are being asked to believe, cannot adjust to an earlier election calendar unlike their white neighbors.

What George W. Bush called “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” finds itself at home on the Lean Forward network’s website.

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Saturday Night Cigar Lounge July 20th

When:Saturday, June 29th, 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific

Where: Saturday Night Cigar Lounge with Taylor on Blog Talk Radio

What: Saturday nights were meant for cigars and politics.

Hear Taylor and his co-host Liz Harrison talk about everything from the past week – from politics, to news, to books, and entertainment. Whatever comes to mind, and of course, sobriety is not likely.

Tonight: It’s time for another Saturday Night Cigar Lounge. This time Brandon Morse visits to talk Misfit Politics and #Merica. Plus an interview with Reason’s Shikha Dalmia on Detroit.

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Market Wrap for Monday, July 15: Stocks Record Modest Gains to Start Week

The U.S. stock market rose again in a quite trading session on Monday. Volatility was limited on the day as investors gear up for earnings season.

Citigroup (C) shares rose around 2 percent after the company released its quarterly results prior to the opening bell. Although the gains were modest across the board, the recent rally remains firmly intact as the S&P 500 closed at another new all-time high.

On the economic front, retail sales data disappointed, but this didn’t prevent investors from continuing to chase the market higher to start the trading week.

Major Averages

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 20 points, or 0.13 percent, to 15,484.

The S&P 500 rose a little more than 2 points, or 0.14 percent, to 1,683.

The Nasdaq gained better than 7 points, or 0.21 percent, to close at 3,607.

Retail Sales

Retail sales rose 0.4 percent for June. This compared to an increase of 0.5 percent for May and consensus estimates calling for an increase of 0.7 percent.

Excluding the auto sector, retail sales were flat for the month compared to an increase of 0.3 percent for May. This came in below consensus estimates calling for a rise of 0.4 percent.

Business Inventories

Business inventories increased 0.1 percent for May after increasing 0.3 percent in April. This compared to consensus estimates which expected inventories to fall 0.1 percent.

Commodities

Energy prices rose on Monday to start the trading week. Late in the afternoon, NYMEX crude futures were up 0.40 percent to $ 106.37. Brent crude contracts rose 0.24 percent to $ 109.07. Natural gas futures were last trading up 0.71 percent to $ 3.67.

Precious metals also recorded moderate gains on the day. COMEX gold futures were last up 0.47 percent to $ 1,283.60 while silver contracts rose 0.67 percent to $ 19.93. Copper traded down around 0.21 percent on the day to $ 3.1485.

In the grains complex, both corn and wheat were lower. Corn futures lost around 1.13 percent while wheat fell 1.69 percent. Movers in soft commodities included coffee, which traded up more than 3 percent, and rubber, which lost a little more than 1 percent.

Bonds

Bonds were slightly higher on Monday. Near the close of trade, the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) was up around 0.32 percent to $ 108.07.

Yields were as follows on Monday afternoon: The 2-Year Note was yielding 0.33 percent while the 5-Year Note yield was 1.39 percent. The yield on the 10-Year Note was 2.55 percent and the 30-Year Bond yield was 3.61 percent.

Currencies

The U.S. Dollar was largely unchanged on the session. Near the close, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish ETF (UUP), which tracks the performance of the greenback versus a basket of foreign currencies, was up 0.04 percent to $ 22.48.

The closely watched EUR/USD pair was last trading up 0.04 percent to $ 1.3066. Other movers included the USD/JPY, which rose 0.48 percent, and the AUD/USD, which added 0.43 percent on the session.

Volatility and Volume

The VIX recorded a small loss on the day as the market continued to touch new highs. The widely watched barometer of volatility expectations fell 0.94 percent to 13.71.

Volume was extremely light on the session. Only around 59 million SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) shares traded hands compared to a 3-month daily average of 144.4 million.

Stock Movers

Leap Wireless (LEAP) rose better than 113 percent on Monday after the company agreed to be acquired for $ 1.19 billion cash.

Power Integrations (POWI) rose better than 11 percent on the session after the company raised its outlook for second-quarter revenue and gross margin.

Forest Oil (FST) had risen a little less than 5 percent on Monday after the company began a process to sell its oil and gas assets in the Texas Panhandle.

Inteliquent (IQNT) climbed more than 38 percent on the session after the company boosted its full-year guidance.

Navistar International (NAV) rose around 10 percent on the session after the company agreed to let shareholders Carl Icahn and Mark Rachesky nominate two director’s each to the truckmaker’s board.

Shares of Ingredion (INGR) lost 10 percent on Monday after the company provided a profit warning. Ingredion said that weakening economic conditions in South America would weigh on profits and said that Q2 earnings could be up to 14 percent below the company’s previous guidance. The maker of starches and sweeteners also provided full-year guidance which was below analysts’ estimates.

OCZ Technology (OCZ) lost more than 5 percent on the session after the company forecast a 50 percent drop in Q1 revenue.

Shares of Cash America International (CSH) fell more than 6 percent on the day after the company slashed its Q2 profit guidance.

Profit-taking hit shares of Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN). The stock closed down a little less than 6 percent on the day after surging in intra-day trade on Friday in the wake of takeout rumors.

WebMD (WBMD) also was dragged down by profit taking on Monday. The stock closed the session around 5 percent lower. WebMD soared on Friday after the company lifted its fiscal Q2 and full-year outlook.

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Bizarre MSNBC Open Letter to Edward Snowden: “Turn Yourself In, Obama Will Treat You Well in Prison”

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Ingenious Press

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This lady is terrible at her job. Incapable of even giving a veneer of veracity to the nonsense she is spouting. Stumbling over every bit of dissemblance, unconvinced and unconvincing. Thankfully, this will fall on deaf ears for Edward Snowden.

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A Missed Opportunity This Past July 4th

July 4 refers to the day the Declaration of Independence from the British monarchical yoke was issued by some 56 noted individuals who risked their lives, fortunes, and their sacred honor for it. Several thousand American colonists fought and perished over a seven year period so that their posterity will live in a free nation governed with the consent of the people to secure their rights as free people.

The first ten amendments to the US Constitution ratified in 1791 contained the Bill of Rights that prohibits transgressions by the federal government into individual life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

In 2013, some 237 years later, the people have lost most of what was enshrined in the US Constitution. The federal government, instead of being limited in scope as intended, has become a dictatorial national government. Patrick Henry opposed the adoption of the Constitution as he feared the uncontained growth of the federal government by destroying the sovereignty of the individual states. He was right!

The American people lost their way in the early 1900s and allowed the concept of big government to come to fruition and to destroy the core principle of federalism during the Woodrow Wilson administration with the enactment of direct federal government taxation of Americans and the simultaneous removal of state representation in Congress by instituting the direct popular election of the Senators.

Article 1, Section 1 is in tatters as Congress has illegally delegated its legislative powers to such unelected agencies as the EPA, IRS, FCC, FDA, and the other hundreds of agencies with the full approval of the US Supreme Court. People did not bother to punish those politicians but accepted the despotic bureaucratic rule that we find today.

The First Amendment is just about erased. Political correctness depending upon the whims of the favorite political groups is allowed to override that right of free speech and declare it hate speech. There is no religious freedom today. If you do not practice what the national government dictates appropriate, you and your group will be punished with the help of the myriad of agencies it controls.

How about the freedom of the press? The government spies on the reporters, tries to intimidate their families, and prevents them from reporting anything unfavorable to it. Wilson jailed some of them for being against the American entry into WWI. Lincoln also did so in the Civil War.

The Second Amendment, whose presence in the Bill of Rights is for preserving freedom (not for hunting or sports shooting), is under severe assault. A national government that has gone rogue will disarm the citizens so that they can be turned into subjects.

The Fourth Amendment is extinct. Americans gave that up in the name of security. The US government with the guidance of the Supreme Court has eliminated the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures without the required warrants based on probable cause. The president maintains a kill list that includes American citizens, deploys armed drones to exterminate them, or apprehends them to be detained indefinitely under the Patriot Act. What an insult to all the true patriots who secured our freedom to use their identity to crush the very freedom they fought for.

Is anything left of the 5th Amendment? I am afraid nothing is. The government can demand and get confession in some cases to prove a political point. Look at the case of Mr. Libby, who was prosecuted for providing a false statement when the government’s desired outcome of pinning him as the source of the leak of an obscure CIA operative failed.

Private property rights were protected by the 5th Amendment in cases of government exercising eminent domain to confiscate private property for public use. The US Supreme Court, with Justice Souter of our own New Hampshire, broke it wide open when he declared that it was constitutional to take private property under eminent domain for the purpose of allocating it to another private party approved by the government. It was the Kelo case of Connecticut.

With government and the Supreme Court working in tandem, no rights that enable freedom of the individual can be safe. It is how the law is turned on its head to do the exact opposite of what it was originally intended for.

The 6th, 7th, and the 8th Amendments are routinely violated. In some cases, nobody pays any attention to them in our courts.

The 9th Amendment clearly states that those rights that are not enumerated belong to the people, and the government cannot touch them. We don’t have any rights. We are searched at airports in the most flagrant manner without any protest. We are told what we can take in our private possession and how much while traveling. We are told what type of electric bulb we are allowed to use at home. We are now told that we must buy the appropriate health insurance required by the federal government and enforced by the IRS.

The 10th Amendment died a long time ago starting with the Civil War, the adoption of the 17th Amendment, and the unlimited taxing power (16th Amendment), the confiscation of property rights and now confiscation of personal rights. States are merely servants of the national government doing its bidding at local levels.

So tell me again why the 4th of July has any real meaning today? Turning the country around to inspire our people to embrace individual liberty as ordained by the Declaration of Independence is a very long, long shot.

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