Ironically-Named City of Sistersville Still Bans Women from Voting
West Virginia (unfairly most of the time) seems to be the go-to backwoods state in America. Incest, murderous hillbillies, haunted coal-mining towns straddling the cave mouth to Hell, illiteracy, and prescription drug abuse are often mentioned in connection with West Virginia, as if the Appalachian squiggle-blob state…
Principal Pointlessly Threatens Student Who Protested Abstinence Rally
Katelyn Campbell, the high school student who notified the media about Pam Stenzel's insane abstinence-only presentation last week, is apparently being threatened by her principal. She says that George Aulenbacher, the principal at George Washington High School in West Virginia, said he'd call Wellesley College —…
Teen Talk Show Host Is Sick and Tired of President Obama Making…
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Meet Caiden Cowger: He's a 14-year-old radio host who lives in West Virginia and is a rising star in the conservative movement. More importantly, he's apparently very eager for us to know that President Obama is the one to blame for everyone being gay. Interesting theory, young chap! With the kind of cocky confidence…
Knife-Wielding Woman Orders Husband To Perform Cunnilingus
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Melissa Lee Williams of West Virginia is facing assault and weapons charges after she showed up at her estranged husband's door with a knife and demanded of him and another man: "Eat my pussy."
Bill Clinton: Pay No Attention To Fainting Old Lady
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At a rally in West Virginia yesterday, an elderly woman collapsed; before officials had even picked her up off the ground, Clinton declared, "She'll be fine!" Which, thankfully, she was—no doubt because of Bubba's joke-slinging charms.
The Coal Miner's Daughter
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Julia Bonds, who says, "I'm not a latte sipper, I'm a hillbilly, man," is working within coal communities to stop strip mining and develop economic alternatives to the coal industry. More fascinating details, here: [Newsweek]
Your Almost-Last-Minute Guide To Your State's Voter Supression Efforts
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Sarah Palin, Pals Wave Goodbye To That Last Shred Of Respectability
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- Sarah Palin knows that John McCain's robocalls are pissing people off and she wouldn't do them if she were running the campaign. However, since she's not running things, she dutifully spoke into the robocall-making microphone like the big boys told her to. [CNN, TPM Election Central]
- Also, in North Carolina, black…
Obama Is Winning Because Hipsters Stopped Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
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I'm sick of fine presidents and good presidents and mediocre presidents. I'm sick of Rutherford B. Hayes and James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore. We got Barack Obama! Barack Obama, for crying out loud!
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A white woman named Karen Burton was indicted Tuesday on charges of committing a hate crime, kidnapping and malicious wounding. Burton and five others were arrested in West Virginia last September after a black woman named Megan Williams was rescued from a trailer where she was sexually assaulted, stabbed and forced to …
A Little Gamemanship In Appalachia
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West Virginia does things just a little differently than the rest of us. For instance, they've got 30 pledged delegates, but, oh no, they don't just allow the Republican voters of West Virginia elect them. They hold a convention with the big party people, and then they let those conventioneers vote to whom 18 of the…