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Sponsored by We Surround Them - Jones County, T.E.A. Party II attracted a large number of citizens from Laurel and the surrounding area fed up with the current state of the nation.

LAUREL - ONLY IN AMERICA would you see a photo like this! As I was traveling through North Carolina recently, I took this patriotic photo and wanted to share it with you as we will celebrate our independence on the Fourth of July.

Retired federal judge Charles Pickering will be the guest speaker at 'Tea Party II: Spirit of 1776' at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Jones County Courthouse in Laurel.

ONE DAY after President Obama nominated federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, former House speaker Newt Gingrich labeled her a racist.

The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has already achieved a boon for our political culture: It has helped leading liberals and Democrats to discover that being tarred as a racist on flimsy grounds is unfair and deeply unpleasant.

In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignoring.

And that reminded me of one of my favorite lines of all time. It came from Charles Evers, brother of the slain civil-rights hero Medgar Evers.

Even before the 2010 Census process is completed, battle lines are forming over the thorny issues of reapportionment and redistricting.

Remember the Republican hacking the Dems from when Jeffords went Indie? And now Santorum, a Trojan horse.

The Hill brings word today that Senator Jeff Sessions will likely replace Arlen Specter as the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, with a full GOP vote on the Alabama senator expected as early as tomorrow afternoon.

More than 1,200 people turned out to see the God is Great, God is Not Great debate held at Jones County Junior College Monday night.

If further evidence were needed that Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy is afraid that adherence to the usual processes would enable Republicans to demonstrate that Seventh Circuit nominee David Hamilton is not the "moderate" the Obama administration claims him to be, today's sham public hearing on Hamilton's nomination would provide ...

The man who managed Jim Kitchens' successful campaign last year to unseat longtime state Supreme Court Justice Jim Smith now will help lead the Mississippi Democratic Party.

As three federal agencies prepared for an initial meeting on Tuesday in Washington, DC about implementing a sweeping new broadband program, public advocates gathered on Monday to give their ideas on how to use ...

Today, former Rep. Chip Pickering will join Free Press and the Open Internet Coalition on a national conference call to outline ways to implement model broadband stimulus programs that promote the public ...

On February 27 , WMR reported on the death in January of this year of Charlesworth Shelley Hewlett, the accountant who audited the books of Stanford International Bank from a small office between fish and chips ...

Mississippi would receive hundreds of millions of dollars from a massive spending bill the House approved last week.

Bo Palacios, the current Republican National Committeeman from the Northern Mariana Islands, has been named co-chairman of the RNC Transition Team, which will review all party operations and begin preparing for ...

Congratulations to IL'sRNC National Committeman Pat Brady for being selected to be a part of newly-elected RNC Chairman Michael Steele's transition team.

Michael Steele put out a list of GOP officials who will lead his transition team today, and it makes clear that he's looking for a sharp break with his predecessor, Mike Duncan.