Politics
September 15, 2006 -
Moving into the November elections, terrorism and foreign policy were viewed by the Bush Administration as the trump card issues that could lift slowly-rising-but-still-low poll numbers and minimize the White House's drag on GOP ca
September 11, 2006 -
David Potorti of North Carolina lost his brother, James, in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. His brother worked on the 94th floor, a direct hit from the first airplane, instantly killing James and 300 of his co-workers.
September 8, 2006 -
Our friends at the NC Justice Center are hosting a series of events next week in North Carolina.
September 8, 2006 -
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 tragedies -- and the November elections -- the Bush Administration has unabashedly moved to again make what was once called "the war on terror" his policy centerpiece.
September 6, 2006 -
Having just spent the Labor Day weekend with family in deeply conservative Paulding County, Georgia -- just west of Cobb County and Atlanta -- I wasn't surprised to read of this exchange inv
September 1, 2006 -
As we head into Labor Day, the holiday created by unions in 1882 (in the face of fierce business opposition), I just finished listening to a quick NPR news segment on the state of the economy, which had anything but workers in mind.
August 31, 2006 -
The plot thickened today over the bi-partisan Senate legislation that would create a Google-like searchable databse of government contracts. Yesterday, Sen.