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 […]
The Dixie Chicks’ new album is doing pretty well: As Taking The Long Way debuts at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 best-selling albums chart this week, with first week’s sales of 525,829, the Dixie Chicks have become the first female group in chart history to have three albums debut at #1, breaking the record […]
