Topic: Jesse Helms

How to Survive a Plague

Combating institutional indifference, sluggishness and outright hostility, AIDS activists from the late '80s onward forced attention to be paid...

today in history

0 . Today is Sunday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2011. There are 118 days left in the year.. . Today's...

Jesse Helms Funeral

/u-s-senate" title="U.S. Senate">senator Jesse Helms was held on July 8 , 2008 . Family, admirers prepare to lay Helms to rest (July 8, 2008) Helms died on July 4 , 2008. That was the cornerstone of who Uncle Jesse was"The Associated ...
What is my impression of Jesse Helms now that I've read it? Link disagreed with Helms on a variety of issues, and he pointed out errors in many of Helms' statements and stories. The most touching part of the book relates ...
?All men are homosexual, some turn straight. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Why don't ...

Celebrity Jokes

For celebrities being in the public eye is a big part of selling themselves, to get more work from movies, commercials, and all of the other lucrative sidelines that their celebrity status gives them. Blowing his first nose!.There are other instances ...
This is a very broad question taken at face value; so why don't we confine our very brief inquiry to the United States of America.Let's start by making sure we're on the same page about what racism is ...

Another one bites the dust

I actually had compassion for Mr. Kennedy, since I could not imagine having brothers of mine assassinated as he did.I have met and even exchanged brief words with Ted Kennedy, but I did not know him personally. These same pundits are ...

Effects of Race in My Community

Ethnic diversity plays a major role in some communities, however in my community there is a quiet calm and a certain connection between the people who live near one another. To my left, my neighbor is a Sheriff, and African-American. The Sheriff ...
NC's Jesse Helms garnered favor from Hoover, FBI; later asked agents to probe leak to mediaNewly released FBI files show North Carolina's long-serving Sen. Jesse Helms curried favor with director J. Edgar Hoover before starting his 30-year political life.The ...