The title is from a song by Warren Zevon, I’d always heard the line as a telegram from a banana republic in crisis, and that the whole line was, “Send lawyers, guns and money; all Hell has broken loose.” Still, this is a column about lawyers that is favorable, and kind.
I've done a lot of talk radio beginning with Chuck Boyles on WBAL in Baltimore in 1968. It's a challenging form of communication. You don't know what's coming, yet you must be ready for it. It is true that talk radio killed the amnesty bill in the Senate, for the second and final time, last week...
This week Duke University reached a "non-disclosed settlement" with the three lacrosse players who were savaged by the District Attorney in Durham, Mike Nifong. He wanted to hoodwink black voters into putting him back in office. That succeeded, but he has now been removed from office, and disbarred....
You'd think that what happens in western Carolina, in the 11th Congressional District, isn't very important to the powers-that-be in Washington. That's usually so. But not now. And two extraordinary events that have occurred a year and a half before the 2008 election for that seat, prove the point.
At the end of every week I take stock of what's happened. Rare are the weeks which have actual bookends - something that was sublime, and something that was ridiculous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
This is my first complete column about John Edwards. I hope it’ll also be the last. The bottom line for us in North Carolina is quite clear. Edwards didn’t run for re-election to the Senate because if he had, he would have lost.
For 300 weeks, give or take a few, I've played poker every Tuesday with the Coots. That's a group here in Highlands, organized by Dick Strain and usually gathered around his round dining room table for these "probability seminars."
I'm writing to you because you are part of the Gang of 88, the Professors at Duke University who took out a full-page ad in the Duke newspaper to condemn the three students who were charged with various sexual crimes. You asserted they were guilty, and condemned them in many ways, before any open evidence had been presented, or any trial held.
WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC, was one of hundreds of news outlets to publish an AP story on 21 April, entitled "Mass Shootings More Common Since 1960s." The pathetic aspect of this story is that the reporter found and included the truth of the matter in paragraphs nine and ten, but otherwise acted as if he had never seen it.
Our last snow fell last night. It was more than a dusting, less than a half inch. Because this was an Easter snow, many of the early blooms were damaged. Those on the peach trees are gone this morning. Perhaps half of those on the apple tree might survive.
