Tuesday Jan 30, 2007
Ex-NC Supreme Court Justice Orr to run for governor
War Protesters: Spitting at a war hero Iraqi War Vet & Amputee Joshua Sparling Talks About Getting Spit On & Flipped Off at Peace Rally (Video) Hillary Clinton & Code Pink Hold a Press Conference on IraqOn Being Down and Defenseless in BritainIraqi army unready for fight: Battle with obscure cult raises questions about militiasThe Rise of GlossocracyGREAT BRITAIN: We think that we are free people, but 80 per cent of our laws come from Brussels, and cannot be rejected by the British Parliament or, indeed, by the British electorate.Pelosi Reaches Out to Blogging Community"The speaker will be blogging"CHIMNEY ROCK — Gov. Mike Easley came to Chimney Rock Park Monday morning to make it official — the state will buy the 996-acre property from the Morse family for $24 million."Americans also ought to take notice of the fact that no islamic leaders, anywhere in the world, have clearly condemned jihadists. Time and again when asked directly whether they condemn the practice of jihad, Islamic leaders everywhere fail to clearly state their opposition to it."- L. John Van Til, Ph.D.Rebuilding in Louisiana is hard sell for some: Higher number of coastal homeowners are undecidedVirginia: Man once acquitted of aiding the Taliban on trial11 who control your money: Get to know the policymakers who control interest ratesDarpa Takes $300 Million HitFRONT PAGE MAG REVIEWS===>The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11
By Dinesh D’Souza.Antisemitism Rising in Germany: Holocaust memorials defiled by neo-Nazis.Bush Gives Up ConservativesLife in the LeftEgypt's top cleric rules Islam bars women from presidency
Monday Jan 29, 2007
One More Supreme Court Appointment for President Bush?
Gingrich: I'll Decide in September
FATAL DISGUISE - Iraq the Model Examines the Murderous Impersonation of US Troops in Kerbala
Hundreds of militants slain in Iraq battle
State agencies may soon have to start justifying expenses
Legislators to try out 'zero-based budgeting'
The sounds of silence• The City Council doesn't have to like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings. But at least it could offer the courtesy of a reply.
HAARETZ: Suicide bomber kills at least two in attack on Eilat bakery
There's No Business Like the Keffiyeh Business
Soaring through the air: Glimpses of a rare squirrel
FIGHT FOR LAND: Residents in Heart of the Triad area want to maintain their way of life, but officials say change is inevitable
More young Muslims back sharia, says poll
Internet Magazine Sawt Al-Jihad ("Voice of Jihad") Return Announced
South Asia Terror Update
DEFENSE TECH: Fixing the Raptor
GLOBAL GUERRILLAS: Open loop systems and war with Iran
Sunday Jan 28, 2007
Hanoi Jane becomes Sharia Jane
A Global Jihadi Umbrella for Strategy and Ideology: The Covenant of the Supreme Council of Jihad Groups
Ten Myths of the Iraq War
Former Israeli spy chief: nuclear strike by jihadists "very likely"
Glenn Beck parrots PC line, Muslim groups unsatisfied
Mexican Gangsters Defeated, But Not Destroyed
Constitutional Authority to Attack Iran
Salafist Group for Call and Combat Announces its New Name as al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb
Naval Railguns offer Missile Performance at a Bullet Cost
Hamas-Fatah violence continues; 25 dead
Thirst for biofuels drives Great Corn Rush
"Chemical Ali" admits ordered Kurd villages cleared
Mike Huckabee launches presidential bid
Money rains down in German town
Saturday Jan 27, 2007
Iranian Shahab-6 ICBM
DEFENSE TECH: Iran's "Sat Launch" No Sure ThingPentagon's Plans for "Space Control"Historian spent 20 months on 23 pages
After being paid roughly $80,000 for 20 months of work, state House Historian Ann Lassiter produced one completed report -- a 23-page history of the speaker's office that is filled with grammatical errors and makes factual blunders.Gates: Iraq Resolution 'Emboldens' EnemyHezbollah in Lebanon: “They Had Machine Guns Welded in Windows”
My Problem with Jimmy Carter's Book
Friday Jan 26, 2007
Carolina Journal Exclusives: Edwards Home County's Largest The 28,200-square-foot home also Orange County's most valuable
Suicide blast at Marriott hotel in Pakistani capital
Iran Revolutionary Guards Quds Force director detained in Iraq
Pelosi in Iraq to see for herself how war is going
Alien hiring fine fails on Hill
I Am Woman, Hear Me Bore
Feingold Pushes Plan to Cut Off War Funds
It’s a war where the terrorists outgun the cops; where the money funding the bombs and the kidnapping flows in from Arab countries a world away. To many, the terrorist war is a sideshow, but to those fighting it in the Philippines, it is the main event.
US Troops Going After Iran in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine
600 Al-Sadr Fighters Captured in Iraq with Key Militant Leaders
Thursday Jan 25, 2007
DRUDGE REPORTS UFOS OVER SC/NC< br />
What Was That? Strange Lights In Upstate Skies
911 callers report lights in sky
PHOTONETDAILY: Lights 'not of this world' mystery finally solved Air Force reveals weapons tests that sparked global UFO frenzy
What was that thing? East Tennesseans report strange light in the sky
THE FJORDMAN REPORT: Marxism or Decadence? The Cause of Western Weakness
Operation Baghdad -- A Special Report from the Streets of the City
Gingrich says America Could Lose Two or Three Cities to Nuclear Weapons!
Hillary Clamps Down
Right Out of Campaign Gate, Senator Clinton Tells Fund-Raisers There’s Only One Very Hungry Democratic Presidential Candidate!
TO ARMS: Still the President of the United States
Ethics Complaints Against Nifong Expanded
Do Muslims have Greater Rights in Australia?
Thailand considers Sharia law in troubled Muslim south
MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL: Slouching Toward War
Pakistani Owned "Bargain Mats"...Not Your Typical Mat Company [Refused to Ship to US Soldiers in Iraq]
Lebanon Violence Continues, Hezbollah-Aoun Make New Threats
Yesterday afternoon the 910 Group, the Christian Action Network, and Gates of Vienna joined forces to pay a visit to the Hon. Virgil H. Goode, Jr., in his office on Capitol Hill.
Thursday Feb 1, 2007
Ashe County will consider law to govern wind-energy systems
A proposed wind farm of 25 to 28 wind turbines in Creston has prompted the Ashe County government to draw up an ordinance to govern wind-energy systems.
A third hotel tower and a gaming-floor expansion at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino have been given the green light by tribal officials.
HEATH SHULER BLOG: Committees
Jackson County leaders will discuss moratoriums on commercial development along the U.S. 441 corridor in Qualla and subdivisions countywide during their meeting at 6 p.m. Monday (Feb. 5).
What's an apology worth? Democrats admit role in 1898
Wilmington massacre, but little else
Finding a new niche: Ex-builder creates business around decorative fixtures
RALEIGH — Inside the political world, 2006 is being looked at as one of those potential watershed years that people pick over when trying to gauge voting trends.
Immigration report spurs city council questions
RALEIGH — A movie recently shot in North Carolina that depicts a child rape scene has revived the debate over the state's film incentives policy, and State Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger took to the national media to draw attention to the issue.
RALEIGH – Commentators from the “Two Americas” school of income-inequality populism look out across the economy and see only gloom and doom. Then they fume. But in presenting an accurate picture of what is going on, both their choice of data and their common sense are often unequal to the task.
Wednesday Jan 31, 2007
Murphy – At a time when school crime and violence rates have been steadily increasing across the state, reportable incidents in Cherokee County Schools have decreased for the past three years.
Acting on tips from Clay County residents who are fed up with illegal drug activity and want to see the law come down hard on drug dealers and users, the sheriff's deputies and officers from the multi-county drug task force made five arrests last week.
Polk tax collections have doubled over last 7 years
Buying supplies with their money
BLUE RIDGE PAPER: A new kind of health benefit
CANTON — Canton officials are prepared to enforce the town’s right to acquire property by a little used process called eminent domain. Town officials have been negotiating with the owner of property near a water storage tank for the Beaverdam Industrial Park and surrounding community.
CLAYTON - A decade before police charged John Patrick Violette with beheading his 4-year-old daughter, he began battling an illness that planted strange voices in his head, his family said.
RALEIGH - The tempest caused by a proposed ban on exotic and dangerous beasts has whipped up a guerrilla network of animal lovers who don't want their favorite creatures outlawed.
VA officials destroy erroneous headstone
Consolidated Metco will permanently close its Cashiers plastics plant on March 16, putting the facility’s 30 remaining employees out of work. The company let go about 90 workers in November 2005.
Tuesday Jan 30, 2007
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. | Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards acknowledged Monday that he may have been too inexperienced in national politics for his White House run in 2004.
CAROLINA JOURNAL EXCLUSIVE: Numbers show Government Grows
Harlem Ambassadors to return to Highlands
ROCKY MOUNT — WNCR hardly looks like an organization that could take on a multimedia Goliath like Time Warner.
Digital sensors on busy roads will help drivers plot a course
Updates on signs, Web, phones and PDAs will help drivers skirt jams, wrecks
HENDERSONVILLE — A man charged with the 2004 killing of a state Employment Security Commission manager pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will send him to prison for life.
Rogers relishes role as Duke Energy's heavy hitter Company's CEO takes the spotlight on a growing list of industry issues
More than 200 attend children's summit
GDP Density Map
Monday Jan 29, 2007
Commercial real estate in Waynesville appears poised this year to cross a major milestone: the million-dollar acre.
Homeless blogger now lives with his family in public housing
GREENSBORO: Vandals damage, burn school buses
"Zero-based" budgeting experiment under way at General Assembly
A briefing with Congressman Heath Shuler
HAYWOOD COUNTY: Routine transports are handled by the county Rescue Squad.
FRANKLIN: Stay in Holly Springs, owner asks Wal-Mart
Reclaiming heritage: Former PTL site, including tower, close to makeover
The school of fish: Haywood students raise fish to re-introduce into a cleaner Pigeon River
Sunday Jan 28, 2007
Tar Heels don't have lottery fever
Officials blame the economy, gas prices and months of small Powerball jackpots. Also, the state has relatively few outlets, relatively modest prizes
Edwards' nest is grist for critics
Advocate for poor lives in $6 million mansion
Case rocks Guilford’s Quaker foundation
Leicester, Swannanoa may be new towns in the making
Saga's shades of gray
Saturday Jan 27, 2007
Asheville's Nazi sympathizer tripped up on securities charges
HEATH SHULER BLOG: State of the Union from a Staff Perspective
WINSTON-SALEM: By any other name, it could be $10 million sweeter
Study says that changing name of Joel Coliseum could bring in millions for the city
Prosecutors study case at Guilford The FBI confirmed Friday it is looking into the case to determine whether there was a civil rights violation.
Friday Jan 26, 2007
N.C. judge puts executions in limbo
CANDLER — A Biltmore Lake resident has taken out an ad that challenges Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy to a debate about the possible annexation of part of his subdivision and compares the anti-annexation fight to the civil rights movement.
ASHEVILLE — Changes for Buncombe County’s main drug enforcement agency are in the works, Sheriff Van Duncan said Thursday.
Callaway not guilty
Former Waynesville resident and U.S. Sen. George Smathers died last week at his Miami home. He was 93.
Roberts: Why do so few women have political power?
Bus Bouncers: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials plan on asking the county to fund 150 new positions
Charlotte: Crime At Schools Is Keeping Police Busy
Thursday Jan 25, 2007
D.A. Nifong (D) goes on the defense
Hackney chosen as NC House Leader
NC REPUBLICAN SENATE CAUCUS NOMINATES BERGER
Injustice in Buncombe by Don Yelton
EDITING IMPORTANT INFORMATION CAN RUIN A STORY or A WAR by Richard Rivette
Earlier Primaries could remake the 008 Election
Shuler talks the issues at his district office open house
Jackson County commissioners appear poised to consider a moratorium that would halt subdivision development while ordinances governing their construction are drafted.
WCU professor arrested, charged with child abuse
Iraq tour likely to be extended for Boone Guard unit
Wednesday Jan 24, 2007
Ex-NC Supreme Court Justice Orr to run for governor
One suspect cleared in gang episode
First hearing in Duke DA ethics case set for Wednesday
Meetings to explain Zoning
Owner of 36 Pitbulls accused of dogfighting
Pfizer to cut 10,000 jobs
Back to Work: State legislature will be faced with same time-worn problems
$2 billion school bond issue push is because of facilities crisis
Thiefs target Clay County church: $13,000 worth stolen
Georgia murder suspect caught in Clay County
Haywood County Bicentennial groups organize; help needed
McDowell Residents: If river's up, we've got no place to go
Democrats to Bush: You’re no longer solely in charge
Bush’s health plan tied to tax deduction
