By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Amendment One. Whether it wins or loses, the effort to defeat it could be a crucial factor in a successful outcome for the Obama campaign in North Carolina this fall. Prospects for the effort to defeat the proposed marriage amendment to the…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – “You ain’t never going to understand until you’ve been through it.” Politicians from the president on down will hear this plaintive statement when they campaign in North Carolina this year. It will happen when they talk about jobs and their plans for…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – It was a great run. You know what I am talking about. Since the news about the end of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s print edition, writes Scott Hollifield, editor of the McDowell News, “Writers and commentators have waxed nostalgically on the demise of…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The publication of a new book by retired UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Alan Feduccia could make our state a battleground in an argument among evolutionary scientists. This fight between evolutionists could make creationists as happy as Democrats watching the Republican presidential candidates tear…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – It’s too bad that sports reporters and historians at Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters are not reading the book “ACC Basketball.” This UNC Press book by Sam Walker was published last year and chronicles the game during the conference’s first 20 years. On…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Will John Edwards someday be the new Newt Gingrich? Where did this crazy question come from? To get the answer, read on. First, we should wrestle with the questions political experts have been stuttering over since Gingrich’s stunning upset of Mitt Romney…
By Dr. Robert Moore, The Raleigh Telegram SOUTH CAROLINA – During one of the most bizarre primary seasons on record, South Carolina has been thrust into the role of the Republican presidential nomination “decider.” If Mitt Romney cannot be defeated in the Palmetto State, he appears all but certain to…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – There has to be a better way. Some of us reached that conclusion after discussing the mess our congressional and legislative governing systems have come to. Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government “except for all those other…
By Dr. Robert Moore, The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – Dismay, chagrin, fear — these are common reactions among GOP leaders to the dramatic political rebirth of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. As a surging candidate for the 2012 nomination, Gingrich’s continuing march to his own drummer is unnerving party…
By Dr. Robert Moore, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The October 18th Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas concluded a string of eight nationally televised debates. Five of these have occurred since early September and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is widely considered to have “won” all eight debates. Among…
