The mayor of Mulberry, Fla., was attacked by his partner in the early morning hours of Friday, June 19.
According to news station WTSP Channel 10, 29-year-old Eugene Ornelas came home at 5 a.m. in the morning with someone he met at a local bar. Ornelas is Mayor Julian Mullis’ partner. The couple has two [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Jun 22
Domestic violence: ‘keep it quiet’
Jun 18
A recommendation: Senate’s apology for slavery
The U.S. Senate will debated a resolution, Senate Concurrent Resolution 26, apologizing for slavery and “Jim Crow” today
The resolution reads that the Senate…
Acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws;
Apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their [...]
Jun 11
National Right to Life holds convention in Charlotte
The National Right to Life Committee, the nation’s largest anti-choice organization, will hold its annual convention in Charlotte June 18-20 (Charlotte Observer story here).
The group’s annual convention, being held at the Blake Hotel in Uptown Charlotte, will feature dozens of speakers, including anti-choice and anti-gay activists and leaders.
Jun 09
Five Alternatives to the March on Washington
It has become one of my biggest pet peeves (and, I do have many) since beginning work at a “real world” day job. When people offer complaint, they should also offer a suggestion for improvement or a solution. Criticism is fine by me, but it should be constructive.
Veteran activist Cleve Jones has called for a [...]
Jun 09
Retiring “Matt Hill Comer”
I got a call today from a friend in Washington, D.C. He asked me, “Are you going by Matt Hill Comer or Matt Comer, because you’re using both.”
And, he would be right.
When I changed my last name in college (long story, read it here), I went by “Matt Hill Comer” as many of my friends, [...]
Jun 09
Bishop Harry Jackson favors banning divorce, requiring forced marriages
In a column for the conservative Townhall.com, anti-gay pastor Biship Harry Jackson, Jr., laments over the psychological and biological harms of children living outside of families headed up by one dad and one mom.
Among his facts:
Consider these statistics. Over half of Americans studied in a survey in 2001 by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government [...]
Jun 07
DeMint: Twisting history on economic progress
South Carolina’s Greenville News has a report on U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and his vision for the Republican Party.
Raju Chebium reports:
Since Democrats took control of Congress and the White House in January, the South Carolina Republican has sharpened his message of economic fundamentalism and is trying to get more Republicans to oppose what he [...]
Jun 03
Freedom of the Press? Not in Charlotte
The Charlotte Observer reports:
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have launched an internal investigation into a confrontation between an officer and a WBTV (Channel 3) photographer in which a camera was damaged and the photographer detained.
The incident occurred near midnight Friday. Travis Washington, a photographer with Channel 3 for about three years, was sent to the scene of [...]
