http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ms-news/ en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:57:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282198/posts Time is running out for the legislatures in Arizona, California, Indiana, Mississippi and Pennsylvania to solve budget gaps. The last time Indiana missed its deadline for passing a budget and had to shut down the government was during the Civil War. But on Monday... Indiana is one of five states -- along with Arizona, California, Mississippi and Pennsylvania -- bracing for possible shutdowns this week as time runs out for lawmakers to close billion-dollar gaps in their fiscal 2010 budgets. Of the 46 states whose fiscal year ends today, 32 did not have budgets passed and approved by their governors... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282198/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:57:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281187/posts Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) says he would be "very surprised" if he ended up running for president. He is in his second term as governor and became the head of the Republican Governors Association after South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford stepped down following his admission of an extramarital affair. On CBS's "Face the Nation," Gov. Barbour said that the $787 billion fiscal stimulus package passed earlier this year is "far too expensive." The Obama administration argues that it will save or create 3.5 million jobs over two years. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281187/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:17:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278935/posts BEDFORD – The Republican party needs to rebuild itself from the bottom up, said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour last night before addressing a gathering at a New Hampshire State Republican Committee reception. "You're in the White House for eight or 12 years, you become a top-down party, I don't care if these are Republicans or Democrats. When you get out, you're liberated to rebuild your party from the bottom up," he told reporters before a reception at at C.R. Sparks, which was closed to the press. Barbour assumed chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association yesterday, following South Carolina Gov. Mark... The Union Leader, Manchester, NH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278935/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:19:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278616/posts Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has assumed the chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association, CNN has learned. Barbour immediately takes over as head of the national Republican campaign organization following South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s announcement he was leaving the post. Sanford acknowledged Wednesday that he had an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina. “The news revealed today hurts all of us who have gotten to know Governor Sanford over the years and so it is with regret that the RGA accepted Governor Sanford’s resignation as chairman,” Barbour said in a statement obtained by CNN that will be distributed Wednesday... CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278616/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274368/posts Southern barbecue is a must-have item on the set of “Live with Regis and Kelly” — after Brad Orrison finished taping his segment for today’s morning show, two smoked pork shoulders disappeared off the set. Orrison, his sister, Brooke Orrison Lewis and brother, Brett, were in New York for the taping of the show’s grilling contest, “Live’s Ultimate Hometown Grill Off” Wednesday and showed host Regis Philbin and his wife, Joy, (subbing for a vacationing Kelly Ripa) how he makes pulled pork sandwiches at The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint near Ocean Springs. “After it was over and the... SUN HERALD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274368/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:51:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273830/posts OCEAN SPRINGS — Little is known about whale sharks or why they come to the northern part of the Gulf by the hundreds in June and July, within 30 miles of the Coast. But they do. And biologists from USM’s Gulf Coast Research Lab took what they do know about the giant, docile animals from the data they have collected and went whale shark hunting last week. They were successful beyond their wildest expectations, placing satellite tags on three and measuring and documenting several more. Shark biologist Eric Hoffmayer and research assistant Jennifer McKinney, along with a German videographer... Sun Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273830/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:34:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273050/posts KABUL, June 16, 2009 – The first Afghan officer to train in the United States in nearly 50 years earned his silver Air Force wings in a June 12 ceremony at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. Col. Roger Watkins, 14th Flying Training Wing commander, presented pilot wings to Lt. Faiz Mohammed Ramaki upon his completion of the Aviation Leadership Program there. The USAF Aviation Leadership Program is a scholarship for USAF flying training that includes English language training, 25 hours of flight screening in a civil aircraft, such as a Cessna 172, 335 academic and ground training hours and about... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273050/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:59:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272729/posts JACKSON, Miss. | If the Republican Party is in danger of being marginalized as a conservative, white-male Southern enclave, is Haley Barbour - the longtime Washington power broker and current Mississippi governor - the best person to turn things around? Many rank-and-file Republicans and party leaders say yes as the 61-year-old Mr. Barbour prepares to ramp up his national profile this month with back-to-back trips to the early presidential voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Mr. Barbour will headline fundraisers in both states but says the visits are part of his duties as incoming chairman of the Republican Governors... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272729/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272480/posts Not that long ago, owning a metropolitan newspaper guaranteed a seat at the civic table, immediate respectability and, given that many papers were near-monopolies, a press practically capable of printing money. Now it seems that the dollar that buys you a copy on a newsstand may buy you the whole organization behind it. And it doesn’t help that the last three big sales involving metropolitan newspapers — the Tribune Company, the Philadelphia papers and The Star-Tribune in Minneapolis — all ended in bankruptcy. It appears that The Boston Globe may be put in play by its owner, The New York... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272480/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:57:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271651/posts JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If the Republican Party is in danger of being marginalized as a conservative, white male Southern enclave, is Haley Barbour — the longtime Washington power broker and current Mississippi governor — the best person to turn things around? Many rank-and-file Republicans and party leaders say yes, as the 61-year-old Barbour prepares to ramp up his national profile this month with back-to-back trips to the early presidential voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Barbour will headline fundraisers in both states, but says the visits are part of his duties as incoming chairman of the Republican Governors... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271651/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:50:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271553/posts I'm not sure about posting Fox/AP, so I'll leave this blank. Fox News/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271553/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:05:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270148/posts ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) - An Olive Branch man who admitted making threats against President George W. Bush has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Sharon Aycock sentenced Neal Allan Thomas on Thursday after he pleaded guilty in January to a charge of threatening Bush on the Internet site MySpace.com. After the 21-year-old's attorney cited a psychiatric report showing his client has mental problems, the judge recommended a medical facility where Thomas could get treatment while being held. Thomas was indicted Sept. 18, 2008, after someone turned him into the Secret Service. WXVT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270148/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:07:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268897/posts BILOXI — A VH1 reality show contestant was arrested in Biloxi over the weekend while at the Beau Rivage for its monthly Fan Jam. “Tough Love” contestant Taylor Royce, aka Kelly Jean Stasilli of Scottsdale, Ariz., was booked Saturday on charges of resisting arrest and disturbing the peace at the casino resort. Assistant Police Chief Rodney McGilvary said police were called around 4:30 a.m. after a man complained he had loaned her his cell phone and she wouldn’t give it back. “She acted like a fool and was intoxicated and resisting arrest,” McGilvary said. Police didn’t charge her with... Sun Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268897/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:34:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267498/posts BILOXI, Miss. — The price of electricity and fuel could rise sharply and economic growth could be stifled in the Southeast and elsewhere in the U.S. under tax proposals now pending in Washington, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday. At the opening of an energy conference sponsored by the Southern Growth Policies Board, the second-term Republican said cap-and-trade proposals on carbon emissions being pushed by President Barack Obama's administration would drive up the average Mississippi residential power bill by as much as 50 percent. Barbour also said proposed federal taxes on energy production would drive up the cost of gasoline,... KTLA-TV / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267498/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:52:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266273/posts The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday that it would allow hurricane victims on the Gulf Coast still living in government-supplied trailers to buy their temporary homes for as little as $1. The government will also provide $50 million to help other trailer residents, whose homes were destroyed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, move into rental or public housing. The assistance comes just days after the official start of the 2009 hurricane season and one month after FEMA announced that it was ending the temporary housing program it started in the aftermath of Katrina. The more than 3,400... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266273/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:03:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264229/posts In an effort to put the lingering image of a failed government response to Hurricane Katrina to rest, the Obama Administration moved Wednesday to get about 5,000 Gulf Coast residents out of FEMA trailers through $50 million in housing vouchers and, for those interested, a chance to buy a trailer for as little as $1. A joint plan announced by the Federal Energy Management Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development would make the $50 million in newly appropriated money available on a priority basis to low-income Gulf Coast residents of Mississippi and Louisiana. There will also be... The Miami Herald / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264229/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:31:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260511/posts STENNIS SPACE CENTER — A massive steel structure jutting into the sky not far from Interstate 10 is sending the world a message: NASA is taking the next step in hurtling humans back to the moon. Structural work was recently finished on the giant A-3 test stand. Now, things are moving further along in the construction phase. In April, Steel Erector Inc., of Lafayette, La., put the final steel beam on top of the towering test stand and bolted the beam in place, bearing the signatures of project team members. “We’re now 235 feet closer to going back to... SUN HERALD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260511/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 14:15:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260157/posts This is a proposed ballot initiative. The WST group is working with a couple of state legislators to get this on the ballot in the next state wide election. There will be a petition drive required. I'm sure all of you will be more than happy to pass the petition around for signatures. --------------------South Mississippi We Surround ThemWe, the People, of the State of Mississippi, being citizens of the United States, having witnessed the usurpation of our rights by the Federal Government, which were endowed to us by our Creator and the diminishment of the freedoms guaranteed to us by... Citizen Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260157/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 23:29:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260069/posts Antonio Adams (left) and Walter Pruitt, who rescued two young girls from a partially submerged vehicle Tuesday. Eye-witnesses say a 12-year-old was driving the vehicle when it plunged into a canal on Bartlett Street in Laurel. Thirty-seven-year-old Jermaine Broach of Laurel was arrested and charged with public drunkenness, hit and run, no insurance and contributing to the delinquency of a minor in relation to Tuesday’s automobile accident involving two minors. Broach was a passenger in a vehicle that was driven by Shante Nicole Wilson, 12, before it plunged over an embankment and flipped into a canal with swift flowing... Leader Call http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260069/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 20:16:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259598/posts Interpreting the Constitution is a favorite American pastime. Differing opinions on just one sentence fill libraries to overflowing, and land legal cases in appeals courts and supreme courts from coast to coast.The Ninth and Tenth Amendments in particular are the basis for numerous "soap box" issues, precisely because their language is opaque and widely open to interpretation. Neither grants or denies specific powers; both provide instructions for how to read and interpret the rest of the document. The Ninth Amendment reads: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by... Jackson Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259598/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 04:52:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249843/posts Brazilian students transit during training at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School. STENNIS SPACE CENTER — Twenty members of the Brazilian Federal Police have been training at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School in Hancock County for the past nine weeks. The school trains international security forces in high-level riverine and littoral-craft operations and small-craft maintenance. Officials said the school usually runs 10 courses simultaneously for international security forces of up to 20 countries but focused all of its attention on the waterborne instructor course for the Brazilians. “The reason NAVSCIATTS exists is... SUN HERALD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249843/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 08:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258641/posts About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. Waiting out the final weeks of the school year, they begin rightfully to revel in the shared thrill of moving on. It is no different in south-central Georgia’s Montgomery County, made up of a few small towns set between fields of wire grass and sweet onion. The music is turned up. Homework languishes. The future looms large. But for the 54 students in the class of 2009 at Montgomery County High School, so, too, does the past. On May 1 — a balmy Friday evening — the white... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258641/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 22:39:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256432/posts 2012 Watch: Barbour to N.H. @ 1:46 pm by Jeremy P. Jacobs A day after we learned the Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) is heading to Iowa at the end of June, we find out that he also plans to head to New Hampshire. Barbour will headline an event for the New Hampshire Republican Party on June 24, one day before he's in Iowa. There shouldn't be any doubt that Barbour is at least considering a run in 2012. The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256432/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 17:48:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256445/posts PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The first African-American Navy Admiral had a very fitting tribute Saturday. He had a ship named in his honor. The USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, was christened Saturday morning in Pascagoula. With one swing the U.S.S. Gravely entered the service of the U.S. Navy. His widow, Alma Bernice Gravely described the moment. " You use two hands and you go right where you're said to hit it." Alma Gravely acted as sponsor for the christening. Her husband, Vice Admiral Samuel Lee Gravely , broke through every color barrier as he rose in the ranks of... FOX 10 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256445/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 18:20:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256236/posts Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour will headline a Republican Party of Iowa fundraiser in late June, fueling speculation the wildly-popular two-term governor may indeed have ambitions for higher officer. Barbour, 61, will be ineligible to seek another term as governor in 2012, but refuses to speak to his political future, saying only that “You can look for me not to run for re-election.” He will undoubtedly dismiss the candidate-type activity as inconsequential, as spreading the Republican Gospel, but no politician finds themselves in Iowa — the launch pad of every dark horse candidacy — by pure coincidence. Considered a highly effective... Redstate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256236/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 13:37:51 GMT