THE GOV'NA AND THE BEAR
It is worth remembering that Paul William Bryant Jr. was a public man who lived in a poor and troubled state at a grim time. The year 1958, when Bryant fielded his first Alabama team, was also the year in which George C. Wallace made his first campaign for governor. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, these two men were the dominant figures of public life in Alabama and the state's main representatives to the nation. In that time, they so dominated the consciousness of the state that it is only in relation to Wallace that we can understand the service that Bear Bryant did Alabama and how, like so many lesser men, he also failed that state in the midnight of its humiliation.
(NEW REPUBLIC, suggested by SHARON NICHOLS BLOG THANK YOU MA'AM)

SPLCenter.org: A Decade of Defiance

HARD NUT TO CRACK
His name sounds drab, but John Joe Gray is one colorful character. While tax-dodging, money-laundering "sovereign-citizen" extremists claiming they are subject only to God's laws are imprisoned across the nation, Gray, a right-wing militia religious zealot, has been in a ten-year standoff with the state of Texas.
(SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, suggested by ALTERNET)