NC employee refuses to lower flags for late Helms

A longtime North Carolina state employee has chosen to retire instead of lowering flags to honor former Sen. Jesse Helms, saying in an e-mail that the late conservative had a "doctrine of negativity, hate and prejudice."

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Family, admirers lay former Sen. Helms to rest

Mourners who gathered to remember former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Tuesday celebrated both sides of his conflicting persona: the cantankerous conservative who reveled in political confrontation and the Southern gentleman who would do anything to lend a hand.

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Mourners bid final farewell to Helms at NC church

Mourners who attended a viewing of former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Monday remembered the conservative champion as the last politician of his kind.

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Helms never changed on civil rights opposition

Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.

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Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.

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Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser

"Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement.

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Former Republican NC Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July.

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GOP's Huckabee Confuses Key Reagan Dates

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Wednesday he made an "absolute error" when he confused the dates of former President Reagan's birth and death during a debate with his GOP rivals.

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Former Sen. Jesse Helms Has Dementia

Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, in increasingly poor health before and since he left office three years ago, has vascular dementia and has moved into a convalescent center near his home, his wife said.

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On Wednesday, I reported for The Daily Beast that key leaders of the white supremacist movement are seeking new opportunities to infiltrate and influence the political mainstream, particularly within the Republican base.

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Then he has a flashback. Eighteen years ago, the African- American Gantt, a former popular mayor of Charlotte, was leading Senator Jesse Helms in the polls. The Republican incumbent then began running a blatantly racist ad. Gantt lost.

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An Appreciation of Jesse Helms (1921 – 2008), Culture Warrior

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Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) ...introduced an amendment that would have added the name of Jesse Helms to the title of the HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria bill that is before the Senate.

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This past week, Bob Dole dubbed Helms a "conservative icon" and Trent Lott said that Helms was "one of the giants of the '80s and '90s in the United States Senate." Lott and Dole were not alone.

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It seemed somehow profane that Sen. Jesse Helms should have managed to depart this life on the 232nd anniversary of the declaration of American independence.

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The obituaries came, of course, with polite disapproval of the indefensible--like Helms' 1983 Senate filibuster against legislation to establish a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King.

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Mourners who attended a viewing of former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms on Monday remembered the conservative champion as the last politician of his kind.

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Jesse Helms has passed, and what should we say? We can extend our condolences to the Helms family, who are not responsible for his misdeeds and odious views. What else can you say? Here is one approach, according to my morning Tribune:

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The US media treated the death of former senator Jesse Helms July 4 as a major national event. His demise led several of the national newscasts and there were lengthy obituaries the next day in the national newspapers.

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Scratchpad: July 6 Sun. 2008

Recipe for disaster.

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[T]he late-Sen. Jesse Helms' ran an ad in his 1990 Senate campaign that preyed on people's fears about affirmative action. The Politico reports that Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) senior adviser Charlie Black, who was advising Helms at the time, strongly defended the ad.

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In what has to be one of the crowning ironies of the early 21st century, Jesse Helms, an ultraconservative who fought everything the Constitution stood for and tried desperately to turn America into a Xtian monarchy, died yesterday.

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White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories?

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Jesse Helms - A man to forget [Updated]

I had a hard time deciding whether to write of Jesse Helms death on the Fourth of July.

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Vice President Dick Cheney opposed the ratification of a treaty banning the use chemical weapons, a recently unearthed letter shows.

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The opposition researcher speaks about a decade of negative campaigns, the voter's right to know, whichparty plays dirtiest and what he's hiding from hisparents.

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Helms and his nativist right-wing colleagues never believed in the idea that when it came to dealing with other governments and cultures, you can get more with the carrot than with the stick.

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Has John Kerry Come Full Circle

I admired John Kerry prior to his voting for the Iraq War Resolution in 2002. The early years of his senate career were terrific.

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