Category: Politics
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Cash for Clunkers wildly successful, sort of
I WAS SO GLAD TO HEAR that Cash for Clunkers, the Congressional program where ordinary citizens are given thousands of dollars to trade in their old wasteful, noxious- gas-spewing clunkers…
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A very third-personal column
GARY GADDY is going to miss Roland Burris. In case you missed it, Roland Burris is the Illinois politician who took Barack Obama's senate seat after being appointed by another…
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Very Briefly: The News in Briefs
This week's local, state, national and international news pre-digested for your consumptive pleasure. Carrboro to star in network TV series. CARRBORO, N.C. — The mid-season replacement television show The Goode…
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A mediated political pop quiz
TEST YOUR POLITICAL IQ to learn what you may not have learned from the massive mass media. 1) In the first apparent action by the Obama administration which might lead…
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Now introducing . . . the Albatross!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Congress today ordered General Motors to begin producing "as quickly as feasible" a brand new model for its Cadillac line of passenger vehicles, the Albatross.…
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Palindrome, spelled backwards
ADAVEN, Nevada — Even as the Conservation Laboratory for Palindromes, plc, (CLP plc), a private-public partnership which seeks to preserve the palindrome for posterity, petitions Congress to add the palindrome…
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My love/hate affair with Thom. Jefferson
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND I are both from Charlottesville, so that would make us natural allies — or perhaps rivals. I really admire the guy, though I think that if we…
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The burdens of being a Local Voice
I AM A LOCAL VOICE. It says so right here in the paper. Look, up at the top of this column. It'd be nice if I could be a disembodied…
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Suit filed against Chapel Hill nuttiness
CHAPEL HILL — The Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) has filed suit against the Town of Chapel Hill, demanding that they "cease and desist all acts and activities which promulgate…
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Fascists and free-speech fiascos
I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH news coverage it received, but on Tuesday April 14th, my wife and I attended an event on the University of North Carolina campus. We came…
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