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From NC Policy Watch:

Speaking of the media, it almost seemed like the folks at the N&O who write Under the Dome needed a day off recently and let the folks at the Locke Foundation take over. That's about the only way to explain Saturday's Dome with the headline "Locke linguists demystify plannerspeak," which printed several entries from what Dome called the Locker's "conservative's glossary to the jargon that city planners are known to throw around."

In a bizarre twist on matters of personal integrity, a challenger to Blue Dog Mike McIntyre this week showed what always matters most to Republicans: money.

Breazeale, who is making his second challenge against 7th District Democratic Rep. Mike McIntyre, announced this week that he is guaranteeing his pledge to serve no more than six years in Congress with a $250,000 check secured by personal assets written in a promissory note, Rob Christensen reports.

I know I shouldn't be surprised by stunts like this, but somehow I can't get past the moral squishiness behind Breazeale promissory note. To put it simply, we now have a candidate for federal office telling us in no uncertain terms that we the people can't trust him to keep his word unless there's money on the line. Of course, Breazeale is in good company. He knows that voters don't trust Republican liars like Sue Myrick, who made a similar solemn promise as part of her Contract on America, a promise that she wouldn't serve more than 12 years in Congress.

Dome is reporting today that the NC Attorney General has all but put a nail in the US Navy's OLF coffin.

A letter from the Attorney General's office to U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, a Farmville Republican, indicates the department would enforce laws by which the state would retain some jurisdiction over lands seized for an OLF in counties that do not already have military bases. That would allow the counties to enforce noise ordinances, for example, on the Navy.

We covered this back in April, when the Virginia Pilot reported that the NC General Assembly had passed legislation that would interfere with the Navy's Reign of Error.

A person starts to wonder. I've never had a quarrel (well, not in recent memory) with Dome's coverage, which I assume reflects N&O druthers, but this latest blurb on Haley Barbour's attacks on Edwards makes me wonder a bit. That is, on one hand, a person welcomes the idea that Haley Barbour might regard Edwards as a threat; on the other hand, looks to me as though the piece is actually carrying water for the GOP perspective -- and perhaps the perspective of those (Clinton, Obama) who want to brush him out of the way as well.