Category Archives: Politics

Greensboro N&R’s Letters to the Editor Blog: The Triad’s National Enquirer

2 Replies

Alot of bloggers have commented on the rowdy Greensboro News & Record’s "Letters to the Editor" blog.  Many are lamenting the lack of civility, the nasty posts made by people hiding behind their pseudonyms, etc. 

Me?  I love watching people with firmly held beliefs trying to convince someone else with equally firmly held, yet opposite beliefs that they are in fact wrong about their firmly held beliefs.  This debate about torture is a prime example.

I’m sure this isn’t what John Robinson and company were striving for, but I feel the same guilty pleasure reading this blog as I do when I read the National Enquirer in the grocery store check out.  Of course I’m sure John & company would love the Enquirer’s circulation!

Courting Influence

Leave a reply

Just found this website, www.courtinginfluence.net, that features a database of federal judges and nominees with links to their financial disclosure statements and copies of their Senate questionnaires.

The site is run by the Center for Investigative Journalism, which has a decidedly liberal feel to it, but the documents speak for themselves.

This is reason number 8,000,001 I’ll probably never run for public office.  Who needs the scrutiny of their every move?

Tin Ear

Leave a reply

I got this from Andrew Sullivan’s site:

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Just
before his helicopter lifted off, [Senate majority leader, Bill] Frist
and aides took snapshots of each other near a pile of tsunami debris.
‘Get some devastation in the back,’ Frist told a photographer." – CBA/AP.
– 3:00:41 PM

Am I surprised? No.  Disgusted? Yes.

Battle Weary Congress Takes on Baseball Wimps

Leave a reply

John McCain was at the Army-Navy game and during the course of an interview said that if Major League Baseball doesn’t institute mandatory drug testing, then Congress will legislate it.

Good grief. 

How about this:  Congress get’s rid of the idiotic antitrust exemption from normal regulation (i.e. monopoly status) that MLB has enjoyed for several generations and begins to concentrate on a few "small" issues:
Medicare Reform
Social Security Reform
Iraq
Figuring out the real impact of the Patriot Act
And I can go on…

Link: My Way News.

Voting in Winston Salem, NC

1 Reply

In July I moved to Winston-Salem, NC from Northern Virginia, where I
had lived most of my life. The election experience here has been very
different from any election in the past.

Part
of this is due to the huge turnout this year, which would have made the
election different back in NoVa too. But there are little things that
I’ve noticed too:

1. I voted in a church today!  I’ve never heard of that before, and I don’t know if it would fly in NoVa.

2.
We had punch cards here, and our "booth" was a little tabletop thing
set up on a 6′ long folding table. In NoVa we had real booths, with a
curtain and levers to pull. Two observations here: I finally understand
hanging chads, and if I really wanted to I could have peeked at the
folks next to me when they were voting.

3. I had to stand in two
lines today, one to sign in and receive my ballot and the second to
actually vote. 45 minutes in the first and 45 minutes in the second.
Longest line I’ve ever been in to vote before was about four people
long.

All in all though, I like it better here in Winston-Salem. Because the
town is smaller I think the votes feel like they really count.