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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The outlook for democracy in Iraq is not so good: Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq. Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that functions and can bring security. A workable democratic and sovereign government in Iraq was […]
Joe Guarino has begun receiving and posting responses to his City Council Candidate Questionnaires. So far he has answers from Robbie Perkins and Angela Carmichael. This was a great idea, and I’m glad to see that at least some of the candidates are participating. Update: Joe wrote to point out that Lance Jones responded last […]
I don’t go in for the “New World Order” talk, but this is a very good article: Had our Christian forebears acted as we do, we would still be a Crown colony today, without the freedom and independence that America has enjoyed for these past two hundred years. Think about it: there would be no […]
