Sunday, November 30, 2008

GOP Consensus? 'Take Down the Big Tent'

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The Republican Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, oft-mentioned these days as a potential new leader of the disgraced GOP, opines ab...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Erskine Bowles Wants to Block "Hate Speech"

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Following the spray-painting on the NC State University campus of the n-word and the recommendation that President-Elect Obama should be sho...

The Last Crusading Newspaperman?

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I met "The Mountain Eagle" owner/publisher Tom Gish and his wife Pat several times, but I didn't really know them personally. ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Cost-Benefit Analysis

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And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude....
Friday, November 21, 2008

Madam Foxx Has a Hissy

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Former professional Bush-smoocher and giant Puritan Virginia Foxx has decided that El Presidente is an idiot and his Treasury Secretary Hank...

There's a Lesson Here: Don't Tempt Cosmic Irony

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Cosmic Irony, defined by the Urban Dictionary : "A type of irony in which Fate, the Universe, God, or whichever omnipotent force you ch...

Largest-in-World Solar Heating Project in Western NC

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In Fletcher . So says the Asheville Citizen-Times.
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Foxx Voted Against Extending Unemployment Benefits

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The U.S. Senate voted today 89-6 to end the filibuster against the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, which guarantees its passage. T...

Jerk, To the End

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The " midnight rules " of George W. Bush: Rules that will make it easier for polluting industries to pollute. Rules that will make...