Mamas, nag your saggers
Saunders: 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?"
Justice grinds on ... and on
Saunders: 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.
No-dough meals tax? Here's how
Saunders: 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.
I do, I do -- vow to scram
Saunders: Next time I walk down the aisle, Sweet Thang and I will write our own vows.
Jackson is just jealous
By my count, we lost two Jesses this month.
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.
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.
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.
2 tall guys give area kids a lift
Nate James never had to worry about finding money to pay for basketball camp.
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.
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?
Armed and dangerous
Saunders:What's that old joke - "Guns don't kill people: jealous husbands who come home early kill people"?
'Maury' by a landslide
Saunders:Tuesday was not, to paraphrase Churchill, our finest hour.
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?
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.
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.
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.
'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?
The cop lets blight run wild
Saunders:At my house, the roaches scurry away when you turn on a light.
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.
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?
Finally, senator, thanks
Saunders:Come on, baby. It's been all over the newspapers and TV.
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.
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.
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