Tag:John Edwards

• Faculty lacks perspective on politics

  Activist professors at UNC are the villains of tales they don’t hear and the butts of jokes they don’t understand.

  by John Hood
• Sinner In the Hands of an Angry Prosecutor

  Criminal law is a blunt instrument and not always suited to the task of policing immoral or idiotic behavior.

  by John Hood
• While I Was Away

  Outside of the political bubble in Raleigh, North Carolinians aren’t talking much about the latest legislative intrigues or the nefarious influence of shadowy corporate interests.

  by John Hood
• Will voters Hand the GOP the General Assembly?

  Chris Hayes on competitive legislative races; Gary Pearce, Marc Rotterman, & John Hood on GOP chances in midterm; Stephen Margolis on so-called market "failures"; Edward Stringham on economic freedom; Rick Henderson on John Edwards and Gov. Perdue.

  by Rick Henderson, Marc Rotterman, John Hood
• Standards allow Edwards’ bloggers a pass

  The standards of journalism and of civilized society don’t allow general circulation newspapers or broadcast media outlets to convey the level of obscenity, malevolence and bigotry.

  by Jon Ham
• Edwards Home County’s Largest

  RALEIGH — Presidential candidate John Edwards and his family recently moved into what county tax officials say is the most valuable home in Orange County. The house, which includes a recreational building attached to the main living quarters, also is probably the largest in the county.

  by Don Carrington
• Edwards, Kemp Discuss Poverty

  CHAPEL HILL — John Edwards and Jack Kemp both agree that poverty is one of the most important domestic issues facing the United States. They just have different ideas on how to solve the problem. The two former vice presidential candidates discussed poverty Monday in a town hall-type format in…

  by Shannon Blosser
• No. 775: “The Candidate:” Edwards Reprises Redford Role

  Richard Wagner compares John Edwards and Robert Redford: movie-star looks and a script suitable for Hollywood.

  by Richard Wagner
• No. 717: The Confused State of John Edwards

  I can’t recall the last time Northern rhetoric piqued Dixie sensitivities, but Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean’s remarks last month flustered North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

  by Paul Chesser
• No. 701: John Edwards, North Carolina

  Wouldn’t you like to have a job where you showed up for work only 78 percent of the time — a job where you hobnobbed with cultural elites in Hollywood and crisscrossed the country in private jets? That’s the life of North Carolina’s “Part-Time Senator” John Edwards, now “officially” running…