Steve Mangold, who grew up in Yazoo City, MS and was best friends with Haley Barbour and lived a block away, tells a different story about the Citizens Councils.
If you forget about those that died on Deepwater Horizon, then you might think it was a cool explosion like the future chair of the House Science and Technology Committee. Oh yeah, that climate warming stuff, scientific fraud.
". . . there’s a price to be paid for the excesses of the past decade; that the U.S. economy was profoundly out of whack before the recession hit; and that we need major changes in the kind of work people do." - James Surowiecki in The New Yorker