By: Anthony Dent Times are tough for President Obama. Republicans won control of the U.S. House after the midterm elections, unemployment still stands above eight percent, and he’s on track to lose to a “Generic Republican” this November- a far cry from the Messianic figure who was supposed to move us beyond partisan bickering while [...]
By: David Ortiz This semester marks a step in a different direction for the academics of Belmont Abbey College – a step that many today would view as backwards, into the dust of the ancient past that we, enlightened souls that we are, long ago shook from our shoes. The Abbey, as the college is [...]
By: Kelsey Rupp Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is asked by Swedish aristocrat and retired CEO of Vanger Corporation, Henrick Vanger, to investigate the forty year old disappearance and probable murder, of his grandniece, Harriet. Mikael enlists the help of a young computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), to assist him in the investigation. [...]
By:Marc Seelinger Among the General Assembly’s more hotly debated bills this year is Senate Bill 9, “No Discriminatory Purpose in Death Penalty,” which would eliminate the use of statistical trends for appealing death sentences, the centerpiece of the 2009 Racial Justice Act. North Carolina is only the second state in the country to enact a [...]
By: Peter McClelland This coming May there will be a referendum in North Carolina that will determine whether our state will adopt an amendment to our state constitution that would, “provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.” This [...]
By: Brittany Durst As of last month, the state of North Carolina recognizes an unborn child’s personhood from the point of conception. After the 2007 murder of a pregnant Fuquay-Varina woman, four Republican legislators sponsored early versions of The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (GS 14-23.1), or Ethen’s Law, which charges the murderer of a [...]
By: Chase McDonough Student Congress is a notoriously droll subject. Filled with liberal egocentric bureaucrats, student Congress rarely comes on students’ radars. Indeed, being primarily the non-biased distributers of campus funds, their political power really ought to be almost non-existent, and only when their bloated self-importance leads them to ridiculous assertions of power, do they [...]
By: Alex Macey Contrary to false popular belief, conservatives pride themselves on their tolerance. A true conservative would never discriminate against anyone on the basis of religious belief, race, or, especially, what holiday a person chooses to celebrate. Yet we draw the proverbial line when society commandeers Christmas in an attempt to “universalize” [...]
By: Carlie Sorosiak Dining at the Fiesta Grill When a restaurant comes along with superbly authentic and fresh Mexican cuisine, with enormous portions at reasonable prices, people take notice. Fiesta Grill is such a restaurant, although its pedestrian, metallic exterior and dirt-and-concrete amalgam parking lot may suggest otherwise. Franklin and Rosemary Streets surely have their [...]
By: Anthony Dent Walk past the Peace and Justice Plaza on the corner of Franklin Street and Henderson Street any weekday around six o’clock and you will likely see a crowd numbering between twenty to thirty people, making hand signals and discussing animatedly, yet respectfully. This is Occupy Chapel Hill, the local manifestation of the [...]
