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This is just scary.

In a recent op-ed piece for the L. A. Times, Jeremy Scahill writes about Blackwater's bright future, no matter who inhabits the White House come 2009. He talks about how Blackwater sued the city of San Diego, bringing them to their knees, then gives a brief bullet summary of some of Blackwater's more recent ventures, above and beyond their run-of-the-mill mercenary solder work.

I don't normally watch this show, but this was hilarious.

Is this what we have to look forward to?

Yet again, it looks like Blackwater International skates free. The fox of the Justice Department has concluded that there are no hens in this henhouse, and this embarrassment to the state of North Carolina continues to get away with murder, literally.

This one made me grin.

The good folks at The Onion have pretty much made my day—just what I needed with the growing realization that The Neverending Primary will likely continue well past May 6th.

Senator Barack Obama will be coming to Hickory for a Town Hall meeting Tuesday, April 29th.

North Carolina is the 10th most populated state in the country and will provide 134 delegates to the Democratic convention. Yet in my lifetime I can't remember the last time the North Carolina primary actually made a difference in selecting, or even confirming, the party's nominee.

Having just paid my taxes (quarterly estimate a day late and, yeah, I owed a little more), I was curious to know where some of my money was going. I know it can be dangerous to ask too many questions of the government. I know I may learn things that I really don’t want to know. But ...

What’s the going rate for a nine-year-old these days? Or how much can you get for a wife and son? Blackwater has set the price at $20,000, a sum which some of the victims’ families from the Nisour Square massacre have rejected.