Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Cognitive Dissonance

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

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 Begins Blogging

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

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 […]

Cartoon: Video Poker Reloaded

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Cartoon: Video Poker Reloaded

How Much Secrecy Do You Need?

Monday, June 12th, 2006

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 […]

Cartoon: Money for the Market

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Cartoon: Money for the Market

Cartoon: Nov. 3 1979

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Cartoon: Nov. 3 1979

Dixie Chicks on the Air?

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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 […]

Cartoon: SCAT Fare Hikes

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Cartoon: SCAT Fare Hikes

Can Tabor Get an “Amen”?

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Nathan Tabor, a North Carolina political activist and contributing editor at The Conservative Voice, recently tried to take “the liberals” to task on the subject of prayer. Unfortunately, his arguments are a little long on rhetoric, and a little short on support. A few highlights: To hear liberals tell it, George W. Bush doesn’t have […]

Cartoon: Minimum Wage

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Cartoon: Minimum Wage