Birmingham Blues

Presidential candidate Sam Brownback gave his take on evolution in today’s New York Times.  Here’s my favorite part:
While no stone should be left unturned in seeking to discover the nature of man’s origins, we can say with conviction that we know with certainty at least part of the outcome. Man was not an accident and [...]

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), who is campaigning for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, will be in Birmingham at 6 pm on Wednesday, June 6, for a town hall meeting at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens (Linn Henley Lecture Hall).  This event is sponsored by the Over the Mountain Democrats. 
Sen. Dodd is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on [...]

Jeff at Politics In Alabama interviewed Cong. Artur Davis (D-AL7) this morning.  He’s posted a summary at his place.  Check it out.

Paul Wolfowitz, forced to resign as head of the World Bank because he got a high-paying, cushy job for his girlfriend (she recently dumped him), managed to hang on to his job long enough to “earn” a $400,000 performance bonus, due tomorrow.
Must be nice.

This gives me some nasty chill bumps:
The White House sees terrorists as born, not created by history, bearing the mark of Cain, not the mark of circumstance. There is a scarlet “T” written on their foreheads at birth and the only answer is to destroy them. This kind of thinking, of course, relieves the thinker [...]

Um, literally — allegedly literally, anyway.
Lawyers for three slain Colombian coal miners who are suing Drummond Co. in Birmingham have asked for an extra 180 days to get ready for the wrongful death trial slated to start July 9.
The lawyers representing the families of the dead men, their labor union, and international labor rights organizations [...]

This stinks badly of people who have been in power too long and don’t like to be thwarted.
A year after firefighters stopped two-year college officials from taking over the Alabama Fire College, state lawmakers have taken most of the funding from the firefighter training school and given it to a community college program that doesn’t [...]

…or at least the property taxes.  If Dick Cheney is going to live in the VP’s residence, he doesn’t get to destroy the visitors’ list.  The American people have a right to know who comes to visit.  Jack Cafferty agrees.  Check it out.

Over at Mixed Media, Kyle reports that Joel Montgomery showed up for yesterday’s City Council meeting.  Apparently not everyone was glad to see him.  What a surprise.
During the public speakers portion of the Tuesday council meeting, one of Montgomery’s former council assistants, Betty Cannon, blasted him for neglecting his duties as a councilor and demanded [...]

This story made the rounds of the local blogosphere a month or so ago, but it’s now hit the national news.  Alabama’s Homeland Security has apparently identified some pretty interesting people as potential terrorists.  The web page that gives examples of “single-issue extremists” has been taken down because of complaints, but it’s a little scary [...]