Plead the First

Someone just emailed me saying that my blog isn’t accepting comments anymore. I tested it, and there does indeed seem to be something wrong. I apologize to anyone who’s had problems, and I’ll try to fix it as soon as I can. Very strange, since I don’t think I’ve changed anything recently…
Update: Ok, it should [...]

According to Cara Michele in a comment on Ed Cone’s blog, the Greensboro City Council has voted 9-0 to release the recording and transcript of the Wray/Johnson conversation that preceded Wray’s resignation:
Council just voted (9-0) to release the tape and transcript of the conversation between David Wray, Mitchell Johnson and the City’s personnel director, on [...]

Thursday night I went with Ged and a few other folks from work to see a taping of NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell me!” at Wake Forest’s Wait Chapel. It was a great show, and fun to see what goes into making an episode. They had the Hornets’ Chris Paul as a guest. Not being [...]

General David Petraeus testified before the House Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees today:
President Bush ordered nearly 30,000 additional troops to Iraq in January as part of a campaign to pacify Baghdad and its surrounding provinces. Petraeus said that campaign has largely met its military goals, reducing sectarian killings by more than 50 percent nationwide [...]

This week, German authorities broke up a terror network that was attempting to bomb U.S. interests in Germany:
German police were searching Thursday for 10 suspects believed to have belonged to a terror network that provided assistance to three men accused of plotting massive attacks against U.S. interests in the country, according to an interior ministry [...]

Joe Guarino points to Edwards’ new health plan, calling it “totalitarian”. While I think “totalitarian” may be a bit overwrought, I do agree that it’s overly intrusive of the government to require doctors visits by law.
I can understand the logic behind requiring it, but legislation to this effect seems over the line. A better idea [...]