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If you do nothing else this week, set aside five minutes to read this excellent column by NC Policy Watch's Rob Schofield.
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Once again Colbert has proven to be the man. Check out this clip from Thursday's show about William Phillips choosing not to say the Pledge of Allegiance because gays cannot marry.
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Stephen Colbert
William Kristol
#TCOT is a twitter hashtag used on twitter to organize " Top Conservatives on Twitter. "
If you do a search for #tcot on twitter, you get a firehose of right-wing extremism and snark. It's not that useful to search #tcot by itself because there is way too much to possibly be able to consume - ...
Congress
Republican National Committee
Richard Burr
It's been more than a week since the Progressive Democrats of North Carolina issued a statement and a letter to NCDP Chairman David Young asking him to champion a very reasonable request to clean up North Carolina fund raising.
Here's an audio clip of his response:
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Democratic National Committee
Don Young
Probably the second most important (only to preventing nuclear war) issue humanity has ever addressed will be discussed at Copenhagen in less than a month. At this conference, delegates from all over the world will work out a global agreement on how to prevent this catastrophe from occurring. ...
World
Global Warming
The intrusion of god into public policy has long been a source of concern for me. It started early in my Navy career, at the Naval Academy to be precise, when roughly four thousand Midshipmen were rousted out of bed on Sunday mornings and marched off to church. We were allowed a church of our ...
Congress
Heath Shuler
Does anybody have any insight into this ? Sounds like Mel Watt got leaned on by Obama's boys to go along with the Big Money Protection Racket.
In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance ...
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Barack Obama
Federal Reserve
Barney Frank
Huffington Post
The cost of bigotry idiocy
If NC state Senator Jim Forrester had his way, North Carolina taxpayers would be over $5 million poorer this November.
As he does every legislative session, Senator Forrester filed a bill this past February to write discrimination into the state constitution -- ...
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No matter what side you're on in the Great American Abortion Debate, you'll find this article of interest . I discovered it this week in UU World, the Unitarian Universalist monthly magazine. It traces the history of religious practices around abortion, including the Catholic Church's radical ...
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lllicitizen's blog on Heath's advising and extending his remarks using Genentech talking points is doubled down by the Smoky Mountain News this week reporting on more trouble with his dealings with TVA in East Tennessee.
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For those following the wild dispute over the Yadkin River Dam between We the People and polluting profiteers at Alcoa, you'll find Bob Geary's story in this week's Independent to be a sight for sore eyes. I'll share a few snippets, but you'll really want to read the whole thing, plus the two ...
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Like most of you on this blog, I would expect, I get a minor mountain of email every day, proffering petitions to sign urging action on timely causes that I support, or begging for more money to fight the good fight for yet another day.
I try hard to sign what I must and give what I can. It’s ...
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Kay Hagan
Global Warming
China
And happy birthday! We're honored that you'd squeeze in time for BlueNC tonight. Thank you.
As you've no doubt read, our community members have posted some interesting and thought-provoking questions , which we'll weave into this live blogging event.
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Congress
Richard Burr
I don't know Joe Sinsheimer, but I like how he writes, and especially what he writes. Joe gave me permission to post this letter in full, a letter from him to Governor Perdue.
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November 18, 2009
Governor Bev Perdue
Office of the Governor
20301 ...
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General David Petraeus
Who'd have thought I'd ever agree with Sarah Palin. This excerpt from the Atlantic , emphasis added:
"We were informed today that she (Sarah Palin) no longer wishes to do talk radio interviews in the car. It's too distracting," wrote a senior Palin adviser, in an e-mail to senior ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Richard Burr
The recent disclosure that Charlotte-based law firm, Moore & Van Allen, was working in behalf of unnamed clients against certain provisions of the proposed health care legislation (Charlotte Observer, 16 November 2009, is troubling.
They are not doing legal work; they are engaged in ...
White House
Michael Moore
Van Jones
Health care
Almost everything I can find about Senator Martin Nesbitt leans in the direction of positive in my view. I hope that bodes well for his tenure as majority leader in the NC Senate . A discussion I found on the Asheville Citizen Times website is encouraging.
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From the Baltimore Sun :
That's why it's somewhat bizarre that North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr is standing behind legislation he introduced last March that would restore gun ownership rights to veterans designated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of Justice ...
