Editorials
Independence is not doled out by government
In the light of a modest civil liberties victory last week with the Supreme Court's acknowledgment (barely) of the Second Amendment, it's important to remember this approaching Independence Day that rights are not assigned to us or given to us by the...
Where speech is not free, small victories are sweet
As we prepare to celebrate the day of American independence, it might serve as an object lesson to look at how our neighbors to the north observe something we take so much for granted - freedom to speak and write and publish....
North Korea: Can't believe ‘em, can't shoot ‘em
That was certainly a spectacular visual, repeatedly shown on television over the weekend, of the cooling tower of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility being demolished and crumbling to the ground in a cloud of concrete dust. Whether it really means...
Inflation 101: Take control of your existence
Gas and food prices. Everywhere we turn today, those are the pocketbook issues facing Americans. They are the topics in beauty salon and barber shops, across America's back fences and 24/7 on the TV and in the newspapers....
An individual right: Second Amendment is for the people
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a welcome ruling Thursday about Americans' right to own guns. By a closer margin than you'd like - but one that stands nonetheless - the justices determined Americans do have a right to own guns for self-defense...
Declining revenues should not spark a tax increase
As budget negotiators were deep into the tedious task of working through a spending plan that would be acceptable to representatives and senators, along with Gov. Mike Easley, word came from the governor's budget office that revenues will be about $70...
Ups &Downs: Medals, magistrates, merchants and memories
THUMB'S DOWN to the shamefully wasteful exercise this past week when two lonely Democrats put themselves before state voters again seeking the right to run against state Commissioner of Labor Cherie Berry in November. The special runoff election drew...
A big prize? Not a bad idea but . . .
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain has received a few derisive chuckles amid the reaction to his proposal that the government offer a $300 million prize, paid by the taxpayers, for the inventor of a better battery for electric or...
Carlin loved the language and jabbing the absurd
Almost everybody remembers George Carlin's comedy/satire bit about the seven words you can't say on television, the "stuff" we can never quite leave behind and other rants about the foolishness rampant in American life. Yet what remains when we think...
Mideast: Let the people who live there settle things
In the last few weeks some tentative moves toward resolving, or at least reducing, ongoing conflicts in the Middle East have taken place. The remarkable and remarkably important fact about all of them is that the United States has played virtually no...
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