Plead the First

I’m a little behind the curve, but last week I finally started reading Jerry Bledsoe’s “Cops in Black and White” series in The Rhino Times (pick through their archives to find the earlier installments). I’m about halfway through, but so far my initial take on it is that the News and Record should be embarrased […]

Ed Brayton highlights some choice portions of review of a PBS documentary and a Washington Post article, detailing the horrible lack of qualifications possessed by many of the people the Bush administration sent to rebuild post-war Iraq. In case after case, the ticket to Iraq seemed to be loyalty to the Republican party, rather than […]

The Talent Show points to a recent Newsweek article detailing some of the trouble the GOP has been having. According to a Newsweek poll, 51% of Americans think that Bush should be impeached: Other parts of a potential Democratic agenda receive less support, especially calls to impeach Bush: 47 percent of Democrats say that should […]

Ed Brayton has some thoughts on the recent revelation that many of our policymakers don’t even understand the difference between Sunnis and Shiites: This is important. If you don’t know such basic things, you can’t possibly have any understanding of the situation over there and be able to evaluate competing policy options. And this is […]

Most local readers probably know this already, but for the benefit of folks who may be unfamiliar with events leading up to the recent RMA report brouhaha, here’s a bit of basic background. From Timeline: David Wray’s Career, in the News and Record (my comments are in [brackets]): July 2003: [David] Wray named chief [of […]

Roch Smith Jr. recently attended a city press conference and tenaciously questioned Greensboro city manager Mitch Johnson on whether the city would eventually release the RMA report. The report was compiled last year by an independent consultant, and dealt with alleged corruption and misdeeds by former police chief David Wray and members of a covert […]