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Ron Paul: The GOP’s Most Successful Fundraiser Ignored By Corporate Media

From Denmark Vesey (birthday shout out):

“Well, it’s official, ladies and gentlemen. Believe it or not, Rep. Ron Paul, the 72-year-old Texan who hardly ever gets mentioned in Republican political news and the one-time libertarian who always gets the least time on TV debates if he isn’t barred completely, was, in fact, the most successful [...]

New Tome on African-Americans

Stagecoach Mary Fields
Skip Gates is at it again. He’s assembling an encyclopedia of sorts of over 4,000 African-Americans, ranging from household names like Martin Luther King to ones you may not be familiar with like Big J and Rich, I mean, 20th century black activist Silas X. Floyd.
“Black achievement has been trapped in amber, [...]

The Death Penalty In Alabama

“Based on new data from the Bureau of Justice, Alabama leads the nation in the rate of new death sentences for the fifth straight year. Last year, Alabama sentenced more people to death than Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Virginia and Ohio combined. With a population of only 4.5 million people, Alabama’s 13 new death [...]

Love On The Sea Of Cortez (The Essential TSO)

Sometimes simple spoken words can stick with the listener for their whole life. When I (J) was 16, I went on a 6-day sportfishing trip in the Sea of Cortez, the teeming, Pacific inlet between Baja California and mainland Mexico. The fishing boat, which looked like the one pictured above, left from the sleepy fishing [...]

Dare To Be Great

Dear TSOers:

A good friend of mine always signs his emails with the ending, “Dare to be great.” Barack Obama is on the precipice of the most monumental election of our lifetime. PLEASE call your undecided friends, or your friends who are not likely to make it to the polls and encourage them to vote for [...]