The story about my spiritual beliefs, the North Carolina Constitution and one man’s threat to unseat me has gone viral, both in print and on the Web. I’m fielding e-mails from dozens of people around the country—so far all supportive—and the writers include Christians as well as atheists and Quakers and Muslims and pagans and [...]
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Government by the people and for the people
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2009 | 9 Comments »
So much to do, so little time
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For you regular visitors to this blog, I want to acknowledge that I have been so busy with the council campaign that I have been terribly slack in posting here. Soon. Soon.
Pillars (or is it pedlars?) of virtue
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We need to push for health care reform NOW
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The push is on for health care reform and the push-back has been launched by insurance companies and the profiteers that run most of America’s health care system. We need to contact our congressional reps and DEMAND a better plan. And we need to spread the word that all those “socialist” countries out there with [...]
The times they are a changin’
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House
By MARIAN BURROS
Published: March 19, 2009 [The New York Times]
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of the South Lawn on Friday to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be [...]
The death penalty must go
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A way forward
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is Obamanomics Conservative or Revolutionary?
(by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich)
There are two ways to see Obamanomics.
The first, much preferred by the White House, is as a set of initiatives so modest as to hardly merit a raised eyebrow. Yes, steps must be taken to deal with the current economic crisis. But assuming the [...]
Can we break the power of the banks?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a link to a must-see Bill Moyers interview.
State agency makes end run for Duke Power
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I pulled this from Scrutiny Hooligan’s. Please write the Guv.
Cliffside: Forget the Feds. Only Bev can save us now.
By Doug Gibson
A while back, we heard some good news about Cliffside, the coal-fired Duke Energy plant in Rutherford County that’s about to undergo a major expansion. Federal District Court Judge Lacy Thornburg ruled that Duke Energy [...]
The case for prosecution of George W. Bush
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Justice after Bush:
Prosecuting an outlaw administration
(From Harper’s magazine, December 2008)
By Scott Horton
I. The Crimes
Americans may wish to avoid what is necessary. We may believe that concerns about presidential lawbreaking are naive. That all presidents commit crimes. We may pretend that George W. Bush and his senior officers could not have committed crimes significantly worse than [...]
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