“The Sum of All Fears” is the fourth Tom Clancy book to be made into a movie, and is by far the weakest of the Jack Ryan franchise. Its disjointed storyline puts the audience to sleep and it takes the obliteration of Baltimore in a nuclear attack to grasp the viewer’s attention.
A column in a local newspaper marketed to black readers prompts the question of whether it is racist to mention only the black candidates in a political contest while neglecting to mention any white candidate running for the same office.
The governor went to Pender County to demand that state lawmakers lay off a reserve fund for Hurricane Floyd relief. He's all wet on this issue, given the state's $1.6 billion deficit.
Did you have a good time shopping this weekend during your sales tax holiday? That's how North Carolina politicians wanted you to feel – contented and distracted.
College students are being taught to behave unethically in today's workplace despite their own personal beliefs, according to a report released July 23 by the National Association of Scholars.
Today's political analysis looks at 30 seats in play in the North Carolina House. Republicans probably need to win between 13 and 15 of these to take effective control of the chamber in the November elections.
Carolina Journal?s Paul Chesser reports that national media, including MSNBC, Fox News, ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN, and ?NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw? have tackled the controversy over how states, particularly North Carolina, have misused money won in the 1998 tobacco lawsuit.
With candidates confirmed and the primary just weeks away, a look at the N.C. Senate yields 14 races to watch as Republicans try to secure a working majority for the first time in more than a century.
It's easy to see state government in terms of budget deficits and high taxes, but its propensity to become tyrannical is important to remember, as a government land grab in Burlington reminds us.
It was the choice of the book, not the idea of exposing UNC students to Islamic culture, that was the boneheaded move. Now UNC leaders are absurdly sputtering about freedom and tolerance.
In 1976, I was a student at Duke Law School. One of the campus speakers that year was Milton Friedman, who had recently received the Nobel Prize in economics. Prior to his talk, leftist student groups posted signs around the campus protesting Friedman’s appearance on the grounds that since he had once given some economic advice to Pinochet’s government in Chile, he was therefore complicit in that regime’s repression.
