Archive for August 2010
Stories About Journalists
For twenty years the state ‘crime lab,’ the News and Observer reports, has been withholding evidence and misleading juries at trials and sending innocent people to prison – but no one has been fired, which makes the fate of Eszter Vajda (another state employee who did lose her job last week after the firestorm over…
Read MoreHallowed Principle
Well, Carter, I get your point that the World Trade Center is “hallowed ground.” But why does that mean a mosque, or an Islamic cultural center, shouldn’t be two blocks away? In an area, apparently, that is now home to bars, restaurants and a strip club? Apparently, the reasoning is that anything Islamic…
Read MoreHallowed Ground
Now, Gary, about that mosque in Manhattan you disagree with me about: It is fine and noble to talk about “freedom” and “tolerance” and “openness” but Charles Krauthamner asked a pretty fair question of his own about this mosque in the newspaper last week: ‘What makes a place sacred?’ He gave three examples of…
Read MoreJust Plain Funny…
Sometimes something will just float in out of the Internet that’s just plain funny. This one came with the subject: A-Bomb or Welfare. Click Here to read it.
Read MoreObama-care and Perdue-care
Seven hundred fire breathing Democrats gathered in Fayetteville for their convention and just about came to blows over reading the riot act to three Democratic Congressmen who had the sheer audacity to vote against Obama-care. What saved the poor Congressmen from humiliation (or perhaps mutilation) was one of their more adroit supporters standing up…
Read MoreGary’s Taking a Break
This website is going to tilt right this week. I’m going to the beach. On the agenda: golf, reading, napping, seafood and spirits, swimming and jogging (to make up for the seafood and spirits). Not on the agenda: blogging. I’ll be back August 23. Don’t let Carter warp your mind while…
Read MoreEthics North Carolina Style
As House Democratic Leader Joe Hackney and House Republican Leader ‘Skip’ Stam watched beaming, Governor Perdue signed the states latest ‘Ethics Law.’ Hackney then said it was wonderful that Democrats were cleaning up the mess in state government, and Stam said it was a shame the Democrats had created the mess in the first…
Read MoreThe Will of the People
Some people must have superpowers. How else can they divine “the will of the people” all by themselves? Frequently, people comment here that Obama and the Democrats are defying “the will of the people” or “the majority.” I hate to break it to you, but under our beloved Constitution the only way…
Read MoreImmigrants and Gays
Federal judges have turned out to be President Obama’s worst nightmare; first a Clinton judge in Phoenix threw out Arizona’s immigration law and landed Obama in the middle of a political war over the next to last issue he wanted to fight over; then a judge in California landed him in an even worse fight…
Read MoreNC-SBI
Over in Davie County a dentist tells the District Attorney his wife stabbed him with a spear, then he stabbed her back with his pocket knife, and she died; the DA calls in the SBI’s Chief ‘Blood Splatter’ expert to figure out exactly what did happen; two investigators stare at the bloodstains on the husband’s…
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