July 1, 2021 7:43 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, July 1, 2021
Donald Rumsfeld has died. The Don Rumsfeld the Obituaries Won’t Write About.
Peaches
- Guiliani picks the wrong horse again.
- Georgia delays limited Medicaid expansion until at least August
- Georgia Power Foundation awards grant to Georgia Justice Project
- U.S. House votes to give bum’s rush to statue of Georgia’s Confederate VP
- Georgia hospital workers’ vaccine rates: The good, the bad, and the unknown
- Georgia’s citizen’s-arrest repeal not a path for states to follow
Jimmy Carter
- Trump debuts as lowest-ranked living president in C-SPAN leadership poll
- California city to make gun owners carry liability insurance, pay gun-violence fee
- Meanwhile, SCOTUS Will Decide Whether the Right To Bear Arms Extends Beyond Your Doorstep
- Maine law restricts facial recognition technology statewide
- Gender requirements relaxed for US passports
- Democracies Don’t Try to Make Everyone Agree
- Members of Congress Are Spending More Than Ever on Security
Sweet Tea
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Jim Galloway wrote an interesting article on Stephens last year that considered claims that he fathered at least one child by a slave who carried his name and has living descendants. As he wrote, that wouldn’t be unprecedented conduct for a slave owner–consider the Jefferson/Hemings line–but it would be great contrast to his later public views. I hope the family gets their dna tested.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/the-black-family-that-claims-alexander-stephens-vice-president-of-the-confederacy-as-an-ancestor/DJAONGAN25CQBFMPY7IA6I4HUQ/