Plead the First

Bush has reversed himself, and is reinstating the Davis-Beacon Act, which will guarantee certain wage levels for workers involved in Katrina reconstruction. Update: More details on this at the Working Life blog. Sounds like there was bipartisan opposition to the suspension of Davis-Beacon. Democrat George Miller caused the White House to blink first by forcing […]

No, rank-and-file Republicans, I’m not talking about you, but rather your leaders at the federal level. Via Chewie it seems that some bloggers were invited to meet with House Republicans at the Capitol, where they were to discuss “the House Republican record of successful economic policies, their commitment to fiscal responsibility, and the details of […]

The Parents Television Council recently named four Fox shows as being “worst for families”. From cnn.com: Four Fox network programs, led by the comedies “The War at Home,” “The Family Guy” and “American Dad,” topped a parents group’s annual listing of the worst prime-time shows for family viewing. The group’s president, L. Brent Bozell, said […]

Via Jeff Thigpen, Guilford County has redesigned their website. Visually, they’ve come a long way: 1997, 2000, 2004.

It seems that the recent bankruptcy laws are so harsh that even our own government won’t enforce them. Via The Talent Show (who found it at TPMCafe): the Justice Department has announced that it will waive enforcement of portions of the new bankruptcy law for Louisiana residents and some Mississippi residents. They got it right: […]

There’s been a lot of coverage about the upcoming Greensboro City Council elections. However, living in High Point, I feel left out of it all. As far as I can tell, High Point has City Council elections coming up as well, but the only information I could find is this list of the candidates’ names […]

President Bush will be giving a “major speech” today: White House press secretary Scott McClellan characterized Bush’s planned remarks Thursday morning as a “major speech” that will address the connection between Iraq and the broader war against the al Qaeda terrorist network “in greater detail than he has before.”

Ed Cone brings us some excerpts from Krugman’s latest article, which talks about the ongoing Republican car wreck as it relates to helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Update: Ed also has a great takedown of Bush’s handling of Al Qaida in a response to this letter in the News and Record’s Letters to the […]