Tone-deaf on songs, snooping
What we have here is a case of a country's chief executive swollen with power and barreling out of control.
Happy if he had a Hammer
Why should the president of the United States be immune from an all-too-familiar weakness? We're thinking here of the occasional urge to shoot off one's mouth.
Popularity, power bring a jackpot
There went House Speaker Jim Black, boasting about his continued success as a campaign fund raiser. Bless his heart.
The killer who took a number
It was an honor Kenneth Lee Boyd would have much preferred to decline. And we can figure that Gov. Mike Easley would rather not have been saddled with the duty of deciding whether Boyd would become the star injectee at the country's 1,000th execution.
Scaling a city's mount of troubles
Despite its name, hinting at sublime vistas of granite crags, the topography of this small city off I-95 will never trick visitors into thinking they were in, say, the Grand Tetons.
Have a conflict? Do you have to tell?
There is of course a charitable, and not implausible, explanation as to why North Carolina has never seen fit to go the whole nine yards, order the full Monty, in attempting to keep its governmental rosters free of the ethically impaired.
A judge's deep roots in tradition
Samuel Alito Jr. may have studied law amid the gothic spires and paneled parlors at Yale. He may have done his undergraduate work at Princeton, where F. Scott Fitzgerald no doubt formed some of his impressions about the monied class.
In the closet and under the bed
If there's dirty laundry piled up somewhere around the office of state House Speaker Jim Black, it's about to get a good washing. Courtesy of the FBI.
Flattery will get you somewhere
Maybe our president can't be really happy unless he's trying to make a tough sell, to win an argument against strong opposition, to prove that he has the clout and the smarts to get his way.
Slippery floors and flying knives
Many people work hard. Many people work hard for not a whole lot of money. Many people work hard, for not a whole lot of money, at disagreeable tasks.
A call that resonates after the storms
North Carolina's homegrown White House contender, John Edwards, is deeply into the moving around phase.
Lottery 'games' for money and clout
It seems more like three months, but it really was just three weeks ago that North Carolina's legislative chiefs finally managed to deliver a state lottery into the loving arms of its daddy, otherwise known as Gov. Mike Easley. Not that we haven't be
September trials that test a nation
Shakespeare called them "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." So are those slings and arrows the little devils responsible when our lives are turned upside down and stomped upon by fate?
Hitting the road? It's pump and pay
Talk about a guilty pleasure. You fire up your favorite buggy -- even if it's an SUV with 300 horses and wheels as big as an earth mover's -- and convince yourself that you just absolutely must travel rapidly east out of Raleigh.
More to this war than killing
As President Bush's oft-heard formulation has it, the United States is engaged in a "global war on terror."
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