North Carolina’s agriculture commission is claiming credit for a much-improved State Fair, but the media spin cannot obscure the underlying reality: Illegal contributions to and from her political campaign, and an unbelievable defense of her behavior.
Sometimes you can do more damage to a bad idea with humor and satire than with a great scholarly treatise. That’s the working premise of Ken Schoolland’s The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible. This book is a wonderful takeoff on Jonathan Swift’s political satire Gulliver’s Travels and it romps all over the big, dumb ideas of socialism, egalitarianism, and democracy. Written in 1981, the book is now in its fourth printing and has been translated into 21 languages. It’s wickedly good fun with a serious purpose.
As we enter the last week of the 2002 campaign, candidates will be sorely tempted to go personal and sleazy -- which is distinct, and much worse, than going negative.
Democrats use fear in their attempts to stampede North Carolinians toward socialistic programs.
State leaders' consciences were conveniently absent when they skewered taxpayers and wrecked the constitution.
By donating part of their pay raises to university staff, the UNCG faculty showed state legislators how to set aside self-interest.
President George Bush visited Charlotte on Thursday. The event was less about raising a few dollars for candidates and more about raising a lot of pulses to help Republican turnout.
Over a hundred faculty worked with a handful of students and staff members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to produce a proposed new general education curriculum for the university. Their report, "Making Connections: An Initial Proposal to Revise the General Education Curriculum," is a significant step toward the first major overhaul of UNC-CH's general education curriculum since 1980.
Don’t look now, but flying beneath Raleigh’s political radar screen is a potential revolution by local governments who are bucking -- and suing -- state government.
It’s almost Halloween, so it’s time for a scary story. And there are few as horrifying as the mysterious tale of the Phantom Session.
Candidates for U.S. Senate are debating the issue of free trade, even though the economic and philosophical case for it was made two centuries ago by Adam Smith and others.
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