Plead the First

Regarding my post yesterday about the argument that only terrorists need to worry about government programs such as warrantless wiretapping: Yesterday’s episode of Ze Frank’s “the show” addressed the issue as well, and had a great example of how some people are missing the point: The question isn’t whether this program would be effective at […]

In discussing issues surrounding the NSA eavesdropping scandal and the more recent revelations about the monitoring of financial transactions, I’ve heard people argue that as long as a person isn’t a terrorist, he has nothing to worry about, and shouldn’t complain about the programs. This argument completely misses the point. If that’s really the litmus […]

One of Bubba’s first blog posts tries to claim that you can’t support our troops without supporting their mission. He of course tries to wave away all the badmouthing Clinton and his Kosovo mission received in the 90s. He mentions this Tom Delay quote from around the time of the Kosovo invasion: You can support […]

Bubba, longtime commentor at Ed Cone’s blog and the News and Record LTE blog now has his very own blog: Noteworthy. It’ll be nice to have another conservative blog around – Greensboro area blogs do tend to lean left a bit, so it’s good to have the other side represented a little more. However, it […]

Ed Brayton on Bush’s NSA wiretapping program and the sidelining of the FISA court: In order to decide whether the program is or is not constitutional, the court has to know who is being spied on, by what means, and for what purpose. But the administration’s position is that the courts cannot even look at […]

Around the beginning of this year, the office where I work purchased a new hardware/software package designed to have an impact on workplace productivity. Throughout the year we’ve been hard at work mastering the machine’s protocols and entering data into the system for dozens of projects. Earlier this week, we found that our data for […]