Roots of Good Government: Part-time, Citizen Legislature
A part-time, citizen legislature is a good thing –much like a perennial plant. It bears good fruit and then goes away until the next season. Sending men and women home to their regular jobs, to their families, to their neighbors and to
JOSE PADILLA / SMOKING GUN OF BUSH'S ONGOING ABUSE OF POWER
A man, a US citizen, named Jose Padilla, was kept shackled and in sensory deprivation, without any contact with the outside world other than his interrogators or any sense of time or space. He alleges he was given mind-altering drugs
Asheville Citizen-Times Endorses Heath Shuler for Congress
Shuler offers hope for a new directionAsheville Citizen-Times, 10/29/2006This country needs fresh voices and energetic leaders able to work across party lines to right a nation badly out of kilter.Heath Shuler promises to be such a
Asheville Citizen-Times Asks For Your Help and gets with blogging
Send your ideas to jfranklin@citizen-times.com by Nov. 24. We also will take your suggestions on proposed additions and/or deletions to our stable of local and nationally syndicated columnists." It's good to see our local newspaper
Padilla's Blink Code
Why is this not THE issue of our times? Do any of our constitutional rights have any meaning when the government claims the power to arrest and detain American citizens indefinitely and without any process whatsoever?
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today - December 5, 2006
"Civic Center Not for Sale Yet"--headline, Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times, Dec. 5; "Actress Tori Spelling to Write Memoir"--headline, Associated Press, Dec. 4; "Auto Insurance Rates Stable for Many"--headline, USA Today, Dec. 5
Horses of Carrot Island
Asheville Citizen-Times, 03 Dec 2006. William Kirby-Smith, Ph.D., is of two minds about the wild horses on Carrot Island. The associate professor of marine ecology at the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, located directly across
An Immigrant’s Observations
She is a citizen now, but will always be a “foreigner” — not something she with me in celebrating the presence of this naturalized citizen in our midst. out of the times we live in, and the very blue state in which she resides]
Citizen-Times Endorses Shuler
The Asheville Citizen-Times has endorsed Heath Shuler in North Carolina's 11th District. The Times talked specifically about Shuler's environmental credentials and Taylor's spot on LCV's "Dirty Dozen" list:
Yahoo, Reuters go YouNews
The Times reports: "The project is among the most ambitious efforts in what has become known as citizen journalism, attempts by bloggers, start-up local news sites and by global news organizations like CNN and the BBC to see if readers
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