Local blogger Joe Guarino recently wrote about City Councilwoman Yvonne Johnson’s announcement of her mayoral candidacy. At the end of his post, Joe had this to say: The News and Record also reported that Rev. Howard Chubbs offered his endorsement and spoke on her behalf. He is the pastor of Providence Baptist Church, reported to […]
Time.com had an interesting article this past week that looked at how our troop surge in Iraq has been going. According to the report, with only two-fifths of the total surge in Iraq, we’re actually seeing some progress: Barbaro told reporters Tuesday that two of the five brigades making up the surge are now in […]
During yesterday’s Senate hearing, Senator Inhofe asked Al Gore to sign an “energy ethics pledge” which read: As a believer: that human-caused global warming is a moral, ethical, and spiritual issue affecting our survival; that home energy use is a key component of overall energy use; that reducing my fossil fuel-based home energy usage will […]
Update, October 2014: I’m removing this cartoon. After witnessing the mess in Ferguson this summer, and the discussions surrounding it, I don’t feel I can stand behind it any longer. The intentions behind it were good, but that doesn’t mean that I was right. There’s a lot more to issues around race than I had […]
Friend and co-worker Gedeon Maheux reviews Penn Station Subs, a local sub shop in High Point and Greensboro.
I just finished watching some of today’s meeting of the Guilford County Commissioners. In the midst of discussing the formation of a new jail committee, the discussion suddenly ground to a halt. Commissioner Alston pointed out that on the previous jail committee, participants who were not county commissioners had been allowed to vote as part […]
Ed Cone links to a recent NYT article in which Hillary Clinton details some of her plans for Iraq, in the event she is elected President: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton foresees a “remaining military as well as political missionâ€? in Iraq, and says that if elected president, she would keep a reduced military force there […]
Yesterday, I went with a friend to see 300, the movie based on the Frank Miller comic book about the Spartan battle of Thermopylae in Greece. It was very well done – stylized, engaging, and a lot of fun. It turns out that quite a few parts were pulled from historical accounts of the battle. […]
