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Mississippi Delta braces for historic flood - AP

| Steven Nelson (admin)
Flooding

Across the region officials anxiously check and reinforce levees, some of which will be put to their sternest test ever

Matthews thinks Barbour is smart despite 'Mississippi accent' - TheDC

| Jeff Poor

‘Hardball’ host admits he uses regional dialect as a measure of intellect

Barbour nabs former Mitt Romney aid, moving forward with Presidential campaign - TheDC

| Jeff Winkler

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour hires one of Mitt Romney’s top advisers, Sally Bradshaw

Barbour contrasts himself with Obama on economy - AP

| admin

Barbour: Obama has ‘created economic uncertainty or directly hurt the economy’

FoodPolitik: Want dietary guidelines? Don't listen to the so-called 'experts' - TheDC Opinion

| Rick Berman

America’s most noxious food nags are already spinning a new government report to support their own propaganda efforts

Favre's sister arrested in meth bust - AP

| interns

Brandi Favre, sister of NFL star Brett Favre was arrested Wednesday morning in a drug raid on a Miss. condo

In final state of the state address, Barbour takes dig at Obama - CNN

| Chad Brady (admin)

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a possible GOP presidential candidate, took a swipe at a number of President Obama’s policies Tuesday

TheDC Morning: What else can the state demand of us in exchange for our freedom? - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

Read TheDC Morning: An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news

Gov. Barbour to release sisters jailed for life after $11 theft - Reuters

| Steven Nelson (admin)

Mississippi’s governor has agreed to free two sisters who served 16 years of a double life sentence for an armed robbery in which nobody was hurt and $11 was stolen

Has Haley Barbour sunk his 2012 chances? - WaPo

| wrahn

Barbour’s comments on race relations in his hometown during the 1960s have created a series of negative national headlines for the Mississippi governor

TheDC Morning: TSA gropes the wrong diplomat - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

Read TheDC Morning: An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news

GIPSA chief is finger lickin' bad

| Billy Gribbin

J. Dudley Butler, an Obama administration appointee, is using his position to enrich himself.

The pro-earmark fantasy argument

| Maury Litwack

Supporters of earmarks fail to account for the lobbying costs incurred by municipal governments in their pursuit of earmarks.

Serbian Darko Novovic breaks record for swimming Amazon - The Guardian

| interns

Serbian Darko Novovic broke the world record for swimming through the Amazon

Three Southern Mississippi football players shot at nightclub - USA Today

| Julia McClatchy (admin)

Southern Miss officials today identified the victims of an early morning shooting as football players Martez Smith, 22, of Canton, Tim Green, 21, of Columbia, S.C., and Deddrick Jones, 23, of Bastrop, La

Mississippi high school athletes paddled, beaten by coach - CNN

| interns

Three students were beaten for ‘no legitimate purpose whatsoever’ except for ‘failing to run basketball plays correctly’

Three states (maybe four) to elect governors in 2011 - WaPo

| Chad Brady (admin)

One (or two) of the gubernatorial elections to be held in 2011 might give the GOP the opportunity to take more governors’ mansions

Lott: I meant cooperate, not co-opt - TheDC

| Jonathan Strong

Trent Lott says to expect a ‘love-in’ between the Tea Party and the Washington establishment

Love is not all you need - TheDC

| Jeff Winkler

Barbour says vote against Dems not a sign of ‘love’ for GOP

Blue Dog's biggest liability is his party affiliation - TheDC

| Alex Pappas

Southern Democrat Gene Taylor, who represents the most Republican district in the nation still held by a Democrat, is facing a tough re-election race