A new blogger and he looks good

I don't know where he came from but one day his blog was on my screen and I started reading. Maybe it was because his home is here in North Carolina. I've been reading him for about 4 weeks now; and is he ever good.

He's David Boyd. He blogs at www.davidboyd.org

Here are a few posts I lifted from his blog. See if you don't agree. (Links other than to www.davidboyd.org are not "on" here, but they are at his blog.)

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The military needs our best

Volokh:

"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." - Thucydides

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Is there anybody in the news business sadder than Dan Rather?

Looks like Mapes and Rather have decided it's time to try to salvage their rep. My advice? Don't waste your breath.

Power Line:

Dan Rather and Mary Mapes are apparently out to rehabilitate themselves through the assertion of several themes related to Rathergate. In his interview with Marvin Kalb, Rather reiterates several of the themes: the Bush National Guard story was accurate, there is something sinister about the exposure of the documents as fraudulent, and the documents were not proved to be fraudulent in the Thornburgh-Boccardi report or elsewhere.
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Global trade is a two way street

It's all over the news when a Chinese firm attempts to buy a US firm. It works both ways.

China Daily:

General Electric Co. plans to buy a 7 percent stake in China's Shenzhen Development Bank in the latest foreign strategic investment in China's increasingly competitive banking market, reports said Thursday.

Through the purchase, valued at about $100 million, GE Consumer Finance hopes to gain entry into China's developing personal loan market, the reports said.
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Ward Connerly

The question now, however, concerns where the Republican party should go from here with respect to the matter of black people. First,we must abandon fruitless "outreach" efforts to "the black community," and treat black people as we would any other group of people. The message: We want you to join us in this pursuit of a more perfect union. But, we have no interest in you based on your "race" or skin color. Our interest is based on values that we hope you will share.

I'd spend time with a black capitalist over a white liberal any day.

Read the whole thing.
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Good luck, David. I'm glad you're around.

The rest of us can access him here.