By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:18 pm Filed Under: Blogging, Civil Discourse, First Amendment
About four months ago (I know, I’m a little behind catching up with some general topics), DavidL at BitsBlog shared an item from Edward Wasserman at the Miami Herald. Wasserman’s thought was that there is a need for rules to constrain course, offensive, and threatening language on the internet, or at least the news and [...]
The afternoon of the convention went fairly smoothly. As I mentioned yesterday, we heard the results of the National Committee Man and Woman.
I appreciate the way that Stew Iverson kept things moving by inserting speeches at places where there were dead spots because of voting and such.
We heard the report of the Nominating Committee. [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:10 pm Filed Under: 2008 Congressional Election, 2008 Iowa Republican Party Convention, 2008 Local Elections, 2008 Presidential Election, Iowa, Iowa Caucus, Iowa Politics, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Republican Party
In case you’re new, I’m a delegate to the Iowa State Republican Convention this year. And it is today.
So far we’ve had an interesting day. I thought for sure we were in for a long haul after the extended time spent on the report from the Rules Committee. One of the rules [...]