Lorie Byrd Leaves Polipundit

Posted on May 16, 2006

I have only recently gotten to know Lorie Byrd from her postings at Polipundit. She has been most polite and generous in helping promote Stop the ACLU and our cause over there. She has now decided to leave polipundit.

received a lengthy email from Polipundit tonight alerting us to an editorial policy change that included the following: “From now on, every blogger at PoliPundit.com will either agree with me completely on the immigration issue, or not blog at PoliPundit.com.” I would provide additional context, but Polipundit has asked that the contents of our emails not be disclosed publicly and I think that is a fair request. There has been plenty written in the posts over the past week alone to let readers figure out what happened. Polipundit ended a later email with this: “It’s over. The group-blogging experiment was nice while it lasted, but we have different priorities now. It’s time to go our own separate ways.”

I think this is very sad. I think the diversity of opinion is one of the things that made polipundit such an interesting site. She will continue to blog at Byrd Droppings. I highly recommend adding her site to your blogrolls and making her a daily visit. I will also be extending an invitation for her to post here anytime she wants to.

Also adding another contributor, DJ Drummond’s site Stolen Thunder to the blogroll.