Phil Bredesen’s Weak Foreign Policy

By Kleinheider Posted on July 24, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Bill Hobbs criticizes the Governor for not taking the appropriate action to insure Mississippi doesn’t snake our water supply:

My sources tell me the Bredesen administration declined to join the lawsuit as a defendant. The result: instead of kicking the case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, which under our federal constitution is the court that handles disputes between states, the case was heard in a Mississippi federal court.

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Tags: Bill Hobbs, Memphis, Mississippi, Phil Bredesen, water  

Deseg Security Soldier Throws In For State House

By Kleinheider Posted on April 28, 2008 at 6:48 am

A former Army MP with a unique history declares for the retiring Rep. Phillip Pinion’s 77th state House seat:

As a military police riot-control soldier in the 503rd MP Battalion, Bennett had a closeup of American history when he was deployed as part of the federal troops in Jackson, Miss. to integrate the University of Mississippi. He was in the 117-troop Alpha Company, which had landed by helicopter near the campus after midnight on Oct. 1 and arrived in time to help quell an assault on the group protecting James Meredith, the school’s first black student.

“We basically became James Meredith’s personal protection,” said Bennett. “That was an experience. Here I am, a poor farm boy from Bogota, Tennessee, in this big experience. I learned a lot.”

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Tags: desegration, James Meredith, Mississippi