My hat is off to the South Carolina legislators

The Confederate battle flag will be removed from their state capitol. SaLUTE!  

Anonymous announces a million-person march on July 4

You can read about it here. Citing the historic happenings of the recent weeks, the press release says: Anonymous, in conjunction with the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements – hereby calls forth a Million Person March for the only day when it could possibly happen, Independence Day. We call on every American of good …

That was the week that was

So last week, we saw the Supreme Court uphold the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies, and, the next day, marriage equality — which prompted some in the media to call it Pres. Obama’s best week ever, though that seems off to me. We saw the sad burials [pictured] of some of the victims from the Emanuel …

Taking down the flag is only a first step

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, reversing an earlier stance, has called for removing the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds, after a white suspect shot and killed nine people in a historic black church in that state last week. Here’s a quote from her announcement on Monday: “For many people in our state, the flag stands …

That damn Confederate battle flag…

An online MoveOn campaign to remove the Confederate flag from all government buildings — and most particularly from South Carolina’s capitol building — is bucking the South Carolina Heritage Act that says: CERTAIN FLAGS OF THE CONFEDERACY SHALL BE FLOWN OR BE DISPLAYED ON THE GROUNDS OF THE STATE CAPITOL COMPLEX, AND WHICH PROHIBITS THE …

In light of the Charleston church shooting:

  As we grieve the loss at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME Church,  a new report out from Violence Policy Center retires the Blood-Gargling NRA’s® canard that the only thing to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Instead, the report says guns are rarely used for self …

The United States of the Uninsured

And thanks, DickG., for the link. And with that, I bid you a fond see-you-later. Have a great weekend and see you back here on Monday.