Month: May 2007

  • University of North Carolina to hire Republican

    CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — In a split vote, the University of North Carolina’s Board of Trustees voted to today to broaden its affirmative action policy on hiring to include a…

  • A salute to my championship season

    ALTHOUGH MY RECENT TENNIS NOTORIETY (“Hollow Rock’s Most Mediocre Member,” Thursday April 5, 2007) was recognition long overdue, thanks to the high- speed printing press, it is just getting going.…

  • The Democrats ‘undemocratic’ proposal

    OBVIOUSLY, you missed the hearings, town hall meetings and the referendum, because the North Carolina Senate voted late on Monday, May 14, 2007 to pass, by straight party-line vote one…

  • A Pop Quiz on Illegal Immigration

    THE PRIMARY PROBLEM with our illegal immigration “problem” is that our problem is also a solution. While you and I, sitting comfortably in our Chapel Hill estates, may perceive that…

  • Global warming: Hot air as a greenhouse gas

    GLOBAL WARMING finally came to Chapel Hill. It’s called spring. Seriously, global warming is without a doubt taking place. With all the hot air being spewed out about climate change,…

  • After the massacre, TV network adds to the horror

    Cho Seung-Hui, the mass murderer who killed 33 people (including himself) in Blacksburg, Virginia, was a sick individual, both in the literal and figurative senses of the word. That gives…

  • God concedes: Atheists are right

    CHAPEL HILL — In the face of the massive onslaught of bestselling books espousing atheism, God has finally given in. In a special two-hour edition of Larry King Live, broadcast…