Archive for October, 2009

My Family’s Version of a Barn Raising

29, Oct 2009

In an area where cheap labor is abundant and construction help is prevalent, it’s quite rare in Northern Virginia to see family and friends come together as we did last weekend at my brother-in-law’s house to build a deck.
Many of the townhouses in his Woodbridge neighborhood feature decks. But almost all of them were built [...]

Reinventing the Right at TheConservatives.com

28, Oct 2009

For the past few months I’ve been quietly working with John Solomon, executive editor of The Washington Times, on the launch of a new website that brings together blogging and social media to advance the meritocracy of ideas for conservatives.
Appropriately, it’s called TheConservatives.com. The site launched in September and features contributors such as my boss, [...]

Video: What’s the Future of Journalism?

24, Oct 2009

Accuracy in Media held its 40th anniversary conference yesterday at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, D.C., and invited me to speak about new media and the future of journalism.
My two co-panelists, AIM’s Danny Glover and J.P. Freire of the Washington Examiner, are two of the right’s smartest thinkers on this subject, so it was a [...]

The Grass Is Finally Greener

18, Oct 2009

My lawn isn’t quite finished — there’s still some bare spots out back and brown areas in the front — but it has undergone a remarkable transformation since I wrote about it last month. Compare the picture at right with the one from September and you’ll see what I mean.
In late August, I hired Peter [...]