Plead the First

This year’s ConvergeSouth wrapped up yesterday. It was a great conference once again. The barbecue Friday night at David Hoggard’s was delicious. On Saturday, the conference itself started off with Elizabeth Edwards, who laid to rest any fears that her talk would be politically partisan by barely mentioning anything even remotely partisan. She even shared […]

Roch Smith Jr. recently attended a city press conference and tenaciously questioned Greensboro city manager Mitch Johnson on whether the city would eventually release the RMA report. The report was compiled last year by an independent consultant, and dealt with alleged corruption and misdeeds by former police chief David Wray and members of a covert […]

The Lutheran has an interview with Judge John E. Jones, the federal judge who ruled on the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Intelligent Design trial last year. Jones responds to some of the critics who disagreed with his ruling, touching on the role of the judiciary, our establishment clause, and his own faith.

Time recently published a letter from a Marine stationed in Iraq. It contains some great insight into the situation there, from someone who has to deal with it day in and day out. A few excerpts: Worst City in al-Anbar Province — Ramadi, hands down. The provincial capital of 400,000 people. Lots and lots of […]

My Dad passed away last week. He was a World War II veteran, former president of the Delaware chapter of the Sons of Italy, and a retired Draftsman. He came from a large family – nine brothers and sisters – and his parents were from Italy and Sicily. My Dad enjoyed being with family and […]

A friend pointed this out to me yesterday – apparently, Karl Rove has an October surprise up his sleeve for the elections this year: In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an “October surprise” to help win the November congressional elections … Rove is not saying what the October surprise will […]

Key judgements from the “Trends in Global Terrorism” National Intelligence Estimate have been declassified and placed online. At least from this portion of it, the report sounds less damning than the original news articles suggested. Iraq is but one of several reasons listed for the spread of Islamic radicalism: Four underlying factors are fueling the […]

A recent National Intelligence Estimate reportedly claims that the war in Iraq is actually increasing the risk posed to us by Islamic terrorism: The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday […]