By NAT HENTOFF and NICK HENTOFF When speaking about the war on terror, President Obama frequently invokes a biblical sense of justice that flows from the execution of a judgment through brute force rather than the rule of law. “Those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget and that our reach is long ...

Enforce Law With trash can No. 3 it is time to start enforcing the city ordinance of removing trash cans from the curbs. With trash cans in sight everywhere it looks like people do not know what to do with that third trash can. Can’t Do Worse Obama wouldn’t even name the ISIS terrorists — he wouldn’t call them what ...

Just For Conservatives Words have been in the news quite a bit of late. The most recent tempest-in-ateapot is the speech given by the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Melania Trump, last Monday night. A couple of passages were virtually identical to those in a speech given by Michelle Obama in 2008: “you work hard for what you ...

Challenges For Black People: Part II The prospects for a better future are nearly hopeless for roughly 20 percent of black people — those who reside in bigcity crime-infested and dysfunctional neighborhoods. There is virtually nothing that can be done about it without a major rebuilding of the black community from within. Let’s examine some of the aspects of the ...

Back in the 1970s, Robert Morgan resigned as our state’s attorney general to launch what now looks like a most unusual campaign for U.S. senator. This was not a campaign driven by focus groups and pollsters, it was a campaign of the people. His supporters weren’t promoting a brand, as is so often the case with today’s big-league politics, they ...

RALEIGH — In 2016 North Carolina features the country’s most competitive election for governor, one of the country’s most competitive elections for U.S. Senate, and the tightest state race in the country between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. This is one of those bad news/ good news situations. I’ll give you the bad news first: ...

Let’s try and connect some dots. Recently, FBI Director Jim Comey expressed his view that, after investigation of Hillary Clinton’s handling of State Department official business, including classified material, on her personal email server, he would not recommend criminal charges against her. This despite describing the behavior of the former secretary of state as “extremely negligent.” Former New York City ...

Sad End To Hollerin’ Contest We note with sadness and a touch of nostalgia the recent passing of the once-famed National Hollerin’ Contest, a signature event with a national following that put tiny Spivey’s Corner down in Sampson County on the map, any map. For too many years to count the contest gave Tar Heels something to hoot and holler ...

Legislative Math Problem: 1 + 1 = ? The checkout line was stalled and grew long. “What’s taking so long,” one impatient customer groused? Word passed down the line that the computers were down, the customer at the front of the line didn’t have exact change and the beleaguered cashier wasn’t able to calculate the difference between the cost of ...

N.C. Economics Tax Dispute Has A Solution RALEIGH — The federal government has just released another set of economic statistics — and they again show North Carolina has one of the fastest-growing economies in the United States. According to the latest measurements of gross domestic product (GDP), North Carolina’s economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.8 percent ...