Put up or shut up.

Over the next year, you're going to see lots of politicians trying to polish their green credentials. It's already happening in the race for governor, with Moore and Perdue both jockeying to be the candidate of clean air and water, renewable energy and more. And Republican Fredly Smith likes to chatter about his environmental commitments, even as he makes millions building highways and converting heartland into upscale golf communities.

Which raises this question: Are you FOR or AGAINST the US Navy's plans for an Outlying Landing Field on Site C near the National Wildlife Refuge?

I'm not a single issue voter by any stretch, but I do expect to know where candidates and elected officials stand. So far, the "reporters" in the mainstream media haven't been willing to ask these kinds of hard questions. Guess it's up to us.

Disclaimer: I didn't include Mike Munger, Bill Graham or Bob Orr in the picture because I assume they are against the OLF. Munger's a libertarian, so he'll be solid on this. Graham and Orr are both free-market fundamentalists and the idea of big government taking farmland from hard working North Carolinians should be intolerable to them, too. Unless they're hypocrites like the rest of their friends in the Party of Greed.