Category: Politics
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UNC finds cure for Political Incorrectness
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Political Incorrectness (PnC), a neurological condition often characterized by scholars as narrow-mindedness, can now be effectively and efficiently cured, researchers at the University of North Carolina…
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Leaving our state’s education to chance
Most of my columns to this point have been about various aspects of sport. This column is also about one of my very favorite sports: government bashing. Just like when…
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Fair or Unfair? A John Edwards Quiz
Many claims have been made concerning Chapel Hill's very own John Edwards, one of the leading prematurely announced candidates for the Democrat nomination for the presidency of the United States…
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My next job? North Carolina State House Historian
Sometimes we just don't know God's plans for our lives but we still feel like we are being prepared for something bigger. I have often wondered during my arduous two-…
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How Everybody Wins: They Cheat!
Having exposed the Wake Forest University Demon Deacon football team for what they are (liars, cheats and thieves), I am now embroiled in further controversy. The vast unwashed masses which…
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Wasting Away in Krzyzewskiville
The Robertson Scholars Program was such a good idea that there was no reason to expect that it would ever work. The Robertsons are idealists. They thought they could bridge…
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Light Rail: A Great Idea Whose Time Has Passed
Light rail is a great idea. This is just the wrong place and the wrong time for it. What will be light about light rail? The loads its cars will…
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Calculations in Katrina’s Aftermath
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS major parts of America have been ripped apart by high winds and inundated by a flood filled with a noxious brew of stinking pollution —…