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Barry Saunders

Read Barry Saunders each Tuesday and Thursiday in the Metro section and Saturday on the Opinion page. He can be reached at 836-2811 or barry.saunders@newsobserver.com



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Mamas, nag your saggers

Who else out there has been tempted to approach one of these young men with pants hanging south of his equatorial region and ask, "What's up with that, yo?"

Updated: Jul. 24, 2008 1:21 AM | Full story

Justice grinds on ... and on

Supporters of both convicted murderer Michael Peterson and disbarred former District Attorney Michael Nifong are trying to resurrect those long-thought-dead cases and get new trials or reversals.

Updated: Jul. 22, 2008 5:06 AM | Full story

No-dough meals tax? Here's how

If there's one thing politicians like better than levying taxes, it's levying them on people who won't be voting for them anyway.

Updated: Jul. 19, 2008 1:43 AM | Full story

I do, I do -- vow to scram

Next time I walk down the aisle, Sweet Thang and I will write our own vows.

Updated: Jul. 17, 2008 1:05 AM | Full story

Jackson is just jealous

By my count, we lost two Jesses this month.

Updated: Jul. 15, 2008 5:52 AM | Full story

Pinning Obama to the wall

Saunders:In his very entertaining and insightful book "Is There Life After High School," Ralph Keyes interviews writer Nora Ephron and hundreds of others about their lack of popularity in high school.

Updated: Jul. 12, 2008 2:21 AM | Full story

He left Iraq, but war followed him home

Saunders:Relax, Mr. President. This one won't show up in the stats of your war dead.

Updated: Jul. 10, 2008 5:23 AM | Full story

Easley's easy money

Saunders:You don't need to be Orlando Wilson or some other great fisherman to know that there is but one rule to fishing: If a catch is too small, you toss it back.

Updated: Jul. 8, 2008 1:04 AM | Full story

Not my favorite senator

Saunders:One hundred. Easily.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

2 tall guys give area kids a lift

Nate James never had to worry about finding money to pay for basketball camp.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2008 2:03 AM | Full story

All gangs lead to prison

Saunders:I don't know about your friends, but mine go into hiding whenever I need to move even a piece of furniture. Jakiem Wilson was able to get two of his friends to help him conceal that he'd killed his wife.

Updated: Jul. 3, 2008 4:47 AM | Full story

Lawmen deserve a salute

Barry Saunders:How come, the writer who claimed to be a retired police chief asked me, "you have had something bad to say every time law enforcement screws up," yet you have nothing to say when two die in the line of duty?

Updated: Jul. 1, 2008 4:13 AM | Full story

Armed and dangerous

Saunders:What's that old joke - "Guns don't kill people: jealous husbands who come home early kill people"?

Updated: Jun. 28, 2008 2:20 AM | Full story

'Maury' by a landslide

Saunders:Tuesday was not, to paraphrase Churchill, our finest hour.

Updated: Jun. 26, 2008 2:22 AM | Full story

The travails of travel

Saunders:Basta! That's Italian for "Chill, homes." Sort of. So chill, homes. What did y'all want the governor to do, get a bus pass and eat canned Spaghetti-Os for supper?

Updated: Jun. 24, 2008 5:01 AM | Full story

Burning mad and burning up

Saunders:Here's my plea to the N.C. Utilities Commission: Whatever Duke Energy asks for, give it to 'em.

Updated: Jun. 21, 2008 4:39 AM | Full story

Funeral is final drama

Saunders:For someone who hated drama as much as Ryan Nicole Bryant did, this is no way for it to end.

Updated: Jun. 19, 2008 2:23 AM | Full story

Harper stars as savior

Saunders:It's a long, long way from playing "Aaron" -- the TV son that Al Bundy on "Married ... With Children" always wished he'd had instead of his actual slacker son, Bud -- to playing savior.

Updated: Jun. 17, 2008 1:29 AM | Full story

'68: Birthday of today's America

Saunders:Would you call it a miracle that someone who often can't remember what he had for breakfast 40 minutes earlier can remember precisely what he was doing during two key events 40 years ago?

Updated: Jun. 14, 2008 3:04 AM | Full story

The cop lets blight run wild

Saunders:At my house, the roaches scurry away when you turn on a light.

Updated: Jun. 12, 2008 2:06 AM | Full story

When daddy isn't ...

Saunders:There's only one thing men need to know when it comes to establishing paternity in court: You're danged if you do, daddy if you don't.

Updated: Jun. 10, 2008 2:43 AM | Full story

Sentence doesn't fit the liaison

Barry Saunders:So, we've got enough cops in Durham that we can just throw a couple of them away?

Updated: Jun. 7, 2008 4:01 AM | Full story

Finally, senator, thanks

Saunders:Come on, baby. It's been all over the newspapers and TV.

Updated: Jun. 5, 2008 2:23 AM | Full story

Pictures at church troubling

Saunders:Whether or not the pictures on the side of the truck parked at Mount Zion Christian Church will stop someone from having an abortion is questionable.

Updated: Jun. 3, 2008 6:24 AM | Full story

Driving this way is wrong

Saunders:The feature that stood out most on the 2008 Rolls Royce the salesman allowed me to sit in recently wasn't the luxuriously carpeted floor mats or the buttery-soft leather.

Updated: May. 29, 2008 2:23 AM | Full story

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