Is Terry Schiavo alive? Yes, I think she is. Is hers a life worth living? I don’t think so. I wouldn’t want it for myself, or to saddle my family with me in that condition. Others will say, however, that it is worth living, based on their religious or moral or perhaps even practical compass. […]
Bob Geary
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Meanwhile, back in the war capital
Is there an anti-war movement in Congress? Only if you’re talking about the war on Social Security. As far as Iraq is concerned, the Republicans who control the Senate and House are proceeding to pass President Bush’s $82 billion “emergency” appropriations bill, which will bring the tab for the war there (the bill also includes […]
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Home now!
Yesterday, the number of U.S. military deaths since the March 2003 invasion crept over 1,500. … The daily drip of U.S. casualties passes almost unnoticed now, a footnote to the wider slaughter of Iraqis: five policemen killed in two car bombs yesterday, 13 soldiers killed on Wednesday, a judge on Tuesday, at least 115 police […]
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OK, some regressive taxes are better than others
Now that I’ve actually met Pope “Mac” McCorkle, I’ll drop the Pope part. Mac says that I “mischaracterized” his views in this column in the course of writing about country-club Democrats who don’t speak for–or to–the common folk in the party. (See “Are the Democrats turning left, or to what’s right?” March 2.) To that […]
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Circles and lines
Over the weekend I attended a training session for volunteers working the “Bring Them Home Now!” rally and march in Fayetteville on Saturday, March 19. At the end, everyone joined hands to sing a song of peace. I was on the periphery, still taking notes. “Aren’t you going to join us, Bob?” somebody asked. Flashback […]
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Are the Democrats turning left, or to what’s right?
A week later, and Democrats are still arguing over whether Jerry Meek’s election as chair of the state party is a step toward: a) revival, or b) perdition. In the General Assembly, elected Democrats are “running scared”–as one of them put it privately–over the idea that Meek might actually call them out for failing to […]
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“The people have won”
What does it mean that Jerry Meek, the Fayetteville trial lawyer, is the new Democratic State Party chair, and not Gov. Mike Easley’s choice, Raleigh attorney-lobbyist Ed Turlington? When Meek’s victory was announced on Saturday at the party’s executive committee meeting, by a vote of 271-242, party activist Chris Lizak literally leaped out of his […]
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The power of one and of many working for gay equality
No question gay folks are under attack following the 2004 elections, as Equality NC co-executive director Ian Palmquist says. So why all the laughter when they meet? The proximate cause, at Equality NC’s reception for legislators a week ago, was the guest of honor, the first “out” gay member of the General Assembly, Sen. Julia […]
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Committee pushes e-voting reforms
Good news from the General Assembly’s Joint Select Committee on Electronic Voting Systems. After studying the disasters–real and imaginable–that took place on election day in North Carolina (See “Who Won? Who Knows.” Jan. 19), the committee recommended solutions to the three big problems: “Lost” votes. In Carteret County, a direct-record (touchscreen) voting machine decided it […]
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Imagine Blount Street. Then imagine no role for you.
Blount Street in Raleigh is named for one of North Carolina’s three signers of the United States Constitution, William Blount. (The others: Richard Dobbs Spaight and Hugh Williamson.) It’s where the Governor’s Mansion is located, and City Market. Arguably, it’s Raleigh’s most important street, and the Blount Street project Raleigh’s most important downtown revitalization opportunity. […]
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