Category: Politics
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Claus arrested in “Baby Jesus plot”
CHAPEL HILL — On Wednesday, following the culmination of a months-long racketeering investigation, agents from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation arrested Santa "Knicky" Claus on a charge of…
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Honky’s: “Just like eating at home”
AMONG THE PLETHORA OF ETHNIC RESTAURANTS in the greater Chapel Hill/ Carrboro area, one would be hard pressed to find even a sliver of space that hasn't long ago been…
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Meet Time’s 2006 Person of the Year: Me!
(Special to GaryGaddy.com, a column not heretofore published, but now, with newly lowered standards, available for public perusal, in a not-so-subtle bid to get Time to repeat me as Man…
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Revisiting the presidential candidates
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, resting comfortably in my Orange County estate, I did a survey of the leading as well as lagging candidates for president of the United States. After some…
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Energy independence in eight years
ONE OF THE CURRENT CROP OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES says that he will bring energy independence to the United States "by the end of his second term." Believe it or not,…
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A sketchy portrait of Tom Bordeaux
This article is re-printed in advance from the upcoming Hollow Rock Racquet and Swim Club Newsletter from its soon-to-be cancelled occasional Member Spotlight series. THIS MONTH'S "MEMBER SPOTLIGHT' shines its…
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Espousing free speech in academe
RECENTLY, THE BANNER OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH was raised high across academe, including on our very own Chapel Hill campus, in defense of Duke Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky. And, in…
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Helping ourselves while helping others
WHAT IS THE BEST treatment program for people with alcoholism? On a number of occasions I have asked this question to groups of people, and I have always gotten the…
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A very, very questionable column
SOME OF MY MOST DEDICATED readers, who seem to have nothing better to do than try to figure out what I mean by my columns, have sent me a series…
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It’s time to throw my hat in the ring
THE TIME HAS COME for me to throw my hat in the ring — where it will be trampled by a herd of jackasses and pachyderms. I am today unofficially…
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