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.
Activist professors at UNC are the villains of tales they don’t hear and the butts of jokes they don’t understand.
Criminal law is a blunt instrument and not always suited to the task of policing immoral or idiotic behavior.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Richard Wagner compares John Edwards and Robert Redford: movie-star looks and a script suitable for Hollywood.
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.
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…