Former Birmingham city councilor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson last made the news in December when the New Zealand press revealed that Johnson donated sperm to Kiwi lesbian couples hoping to conceive. Now he’s left his wife and headed back to New Zealand to care for his babies.
Former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, who represented Alabama in Congress as a Democrat, compared the worst abuses perpetrated on blacks during the Civil Rights Movement to the requirement that a voter offer photo ID, and said the ID “is not a billy club.”
Jezebel.com has recently released their ‘Ten Scariest Places to Have Ladyparts in America,’ a list of the places you don’t want to be if your body is doing things that involve a vagina. And Alabama wasn’t on it.
Mexicans are not crossing into the United States illegally nearly as much as they once did, and many Mexicans who were in the U.S. illegally have returned home, according to a Pew Hispanic Center study released on Monday.
Just four days after the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against a former BP engineer, Kurt Mix, for obstruction of justice.
Another member of the Anonymous hacker group, CabinCr3w, was arrested last week in Texas after the FBI traced a racy picture taken by his girlfriend.
Federal authorities have unsealed an indictment against a member of the same Anonymous crew that hacked into Mobile, Ala., police computers, and the Anonymous-affiliated group Cabin Crew says on Twitter today that it has disbanded.
The Mississippi anti-immigrant law was killed today after a Mississippi House committee chairman decided that his attempt to force anti-immigrant language into an unrelated bill would not withstand a challenge.
An effort to pass an HB56-like anti-immigrant law in Mississippi died Tuesday in a senate committee chaired by a Democrat. The same committee killed a controversial abortion bill known as the “heartbeat bill”.
Evidently, right around the end of February, Birmingham and its metro area adopted a lot of Invisible Children. Oddly enough, our fair city and its suburbs had a significant impact on the success of the #Kony2012 movement.
