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A few months ago, I announced plans to start a conservative, state wide newspaper in my home state of North Carolina. The outpouring of support was overwhelming. The North Carolina Conservative is now a reality!...

SOME SELF-AGGRANDIZING schmuck masquerading as a journalist found an unassuming soldier in the desert and proceeded to demand that the fatigued GI harangue Don Rumsfeld into quick thinking on an ever-changing issue. Then the reporter bragged, the press smirked, and Rumsfeld, an heroic leader, was suddenly transmogrified into the villain. Even Trent Lott, not exactly a favored member of the Republican Party, has opened his yap on the Rummy Question. "I'm not a fan of Sec. Rumsfeld," he said, recently. "I'm not calling for his resignation, but I think we do need a change at some point." The last time...

Story of "The Baby Hand" June 14, 2003 RenewAmerica staff report Photo by Michael Clancy Some of us may be familiar with a picture called "The Baby Hand," taken on Aug. 19, 1999, by photojournalist Michael Clancy for USA Today, which first published the picture. Clancy was assigned to document a spina bifida operation performed in utero on a 21-week unborn baby named Samuel Armas by Dr. Joseph Bruner, a surgeon at Nashville's Vanderbuilt University Medical Center. The picture and its story have been circulated on the internet so often that some question whether they are authentic. They are. Clancy...