Lance @
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 10:25pm

John Moye is a friend and fellow UNC Law alum, and he'll be blogging for the next couple of weeks at Chapel Hill Councilwoman Sally Greene's blog. The latest post points to some interesting analysis of the Lieberman/Lamont face-off. Stop by and drop him a comment (and tell him to stop by BlueNC!).

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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 8:57pm

Here's my letter, submitted to the Jacksonville Daily News.

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On August 8th, Jacksonville was visited by a representative from Senator Dole’s Eastern North Carolina office. The press release and a small, one day blurb in the Daily News noted that “Constituents can use the office hours to hold individual meetings to discuss their concerns with federal agencies, case work or issues pending before Congress.”

I thought, wrongly, that meant the representative would be able to answer questions. However, the representative, Ms. Janet Bradbury, who was quite polite, was not able to answer any questions. In fact, she didn’t even read my questions (being the entrepreneurial fellow I am, I printed off two copies). For the record, my questions were basic questions on the Senator’s positions on many of the political topics of the day.

elizabeth dole
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James @
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 3:06pm

Today's discussions about Lamont's victory and the question of extremism got me to thinking ... and hunting for insight. My search took me to this commentary about the new world we live in.

In this new era, partisanship is a virtue. The conservatives rise to power, and their utter failure to govern responsibly or effectively, requires a new progressive politics of confrontation, not accommodation. This new politics may be uncomfortable to those used to an America governed by Democrats and progressive values, but for our politics and values to triumph progressives must and are learning how to resist “cutting deals,” working to “get things done” on terms set by an irresponsible governing majority.

NCDP NCGOP
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 12:30pm

For those of you who think we should keep anonymous comments because it preserves anonymity. Think again. Sure, maybe I can't go online and figure out who you are, but the people who own your computer, computer hookup, IP server, and search engine can. From today's NYT.

Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher’s anonymity, but it was not much of a shield.

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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 11:53am

If I ever run for office, there are a bucket of issues that I would push. They include universal healthcare, family farming initiative, better prison system, and better energy usage.

I can't even remember why I was just looking at solar energy, but I noticed that an idea I had some time ago is already a reality. Grid-intertie solar systems. More below the break.

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Lance @
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 11:41am

Ethanol will be highly toughted [sic] by uninformed greenies.

Link. The only people I hear pushing ethanol are big auto makers and anyone stumping in Iowa. Just remember this the next time this particular winger claims to have some insight on the liberal mind. Chances are that he's never met one.

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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 11:33am
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James @
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 9:27am
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Imagine that: John Hood, Stagemanager at the John Locke Puppetshow, writes a whole column today about the Starling-LaRoque debacle in NC House District 10 - and not once mentions his boss's role in influencing the outcome of the election. Nary a peep.

I didn’t hear the attorneys for LaRoque and Starling make the case before the elections board, so perhaps I have missed a critical argument or piece of information that would change my mind. But at first glance it appears that a do-over is the right choice. To allow Starling to claim victory by a margin of only seven votes, with more than that many voters complaining about how elections officials ran the balloting, would not have been in the public interest.

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James @
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 1:52am
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Rhetoric on the role of corporate money in legislative races heated up again yesterday, when Stephen LaRoque, toppled in May with the help of Art Pope's corporate largesse, had some tough words for the Puppetmaster.

"We will address those lies and half truths," said LaRoque. "We will expose Willie Ray Starling for being the puppet of Art Pope that he is."

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Lance @
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 12:13am

Did blogs do it in CT? I'll quote Kevin Drum quoting Publius to kick things off:

If Ned Lamont beats Joe Lieberman in Tuesday's Connecticut primary, will it mean that blogs have truly broken into the big time? Publius comments:

My thoughts — if Joe goes down this week, I don’t think that blogs will have had all that much to do with it....But, because people like [Marshall] Wittman, TNR, and even the Lieberman campaign have harped on about those crazy bloggers throughout the campaign, they are inflating the power of blogs in people’s minds. And as a result, a Lamont victory will create a perception that blogs are far more important than they are (particularly among party insider types who do keep up with blogs).

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