Plead the First

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 […]

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 […]

Republicans often claim that our government is bad at solving problems. So, we probably shouldn’t be surprised when they take it upon themselves to prove it. A recent post at Balloon Juice takes a look down this road, tying it in to the recent problems at Walter Reed: The lesson here is fairly simple. People […]

A collaboration between the universities of Sheffield and Michigan has produced Worldmapper, a series of world maps where the countries are sized not according to land mass, but according to other measures, such as alcohol consumption or military spending. It’s very striking to see at a glance how countries compare to the rest of the […]