Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president.

Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. the Mississippi House of Representatives Lives Out His Dream with the appointment of 27 Black chairmen and 10 Black vice chairmen. In 1860 the population of Mississippi was 791,901 of which blacks were 437,303 or 51 % and whites were 353,901 or 49% 2525. The Republican Party dominated the state.

On Tuesday, Illinois voters and voters in another 21 states will go to the polls to help choose a Democratic nomi-nee for president. While the major Democratic candidates are beating up on each other and telling everyone that they deserve the vote, this election is not about their policies or their personalities, or even their name recognition.

The New Year is upon us and based on what you accomplished last year maybe you should crawl into a cave and waste away.