Opinion
Hillary’s Hard Choices an Autobiography for Dummies
It took a village to produce Hillary Clinton's memoir, and the text betrays extensive vetting. The accounts are perfectly predictable.
Opinion
An Annoying Finger-Wagging Story
An annoying habit of mainstream journalism is its tendency to finger-wag and hit you in the face with a we-know-better story. The mother of all finger-waggers showed up on the front page of The News & Observer of Raleigh on Oct. 24.
Opinion
Why Don’t the Media Investigate Terrorists?
Rather than hindering the U.S. war effort, the media should investigate terrorists' infiltration of our homeland.
Opinion
No. 901: Why Don’t the Media Investigate Terrorists?
Rather than hindering the U.S. war effort, the media should investigate terrorists' infiltration of our homeland.
News
First Amendment: Defend It or Lose It
CHAPEL HILL — Journalists need to defend their First Amendment Rights in order to protect them, or “there’s not going to be a torch to pass to the next generation.” That’s the assessment of one of North Carolina’s leading free press advocates.
Opinion
Silence of the Lambs
The media traditionally have demonstrated a keen ability to sense blood and swarm toward it. American blood, that is. Instead of courageously standing up recently to the threats of radical Islam and printing a few innocuous cartoons, they went after Dick Cheney’s jugular.
Opinion
No. 888: Silence of the Lambs
Who says American journalists are a bunch of pussycats, just because they won’t print a scary cartoon of Muhammad?
Opinion
No. 886: UNC Out of Bounds With Cartoon Flap
It seems as though every time you turn around there is a situation at UNC-Chapel Hill involving the First Amendment. This week’s topic — a controversial cartoon printed by The Daily Tar Heel that depicted the prophet Muhammad — led to an uproar. University officials and the UNC-Chapel Hill Muslim Student Association said the newspaper was “insensitive” to publish the cartoon.
Opinion
A Right to Speak, and Fume
In free societies, one has a right to say or print outrageous things and the right to condemn it as outrageous, as long as the condemnations don’t become threats of violence.
Opinion
French and Germans Leading Fight? Wha..?
RALEIGH — Now for something completely different: The French and the Germans are leading a charge against Islamo-Fascism. No, I’m not talking about their heads of state or their military. I’m talking about their journalists.
Opinion
The UNC-Qur’an Issue
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.
