Opinion Roundup

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  • Kerry’s economic deficit
    If it’s not bad enough that rapid economic recovery has neutered Sen.
    Kerry’s principal domestic criticism of President Bush, now comes even
    worse news for the Democratic campaign:
  • Feminists Silent on Freedom for Iraqi Women
    Feminists are more comfortable allowing Iraqi women to endure torture than supporting the Bush Administration.
  • Queers under siege
    I’m sorry to hear about your recent experience in criminal justice
    class. I don’t know why so many criminal justice classes include
    chapters on ‘queer theory’ these days.
  • A contest between big spenders
    For fiscal conservatives, the choice this election could hardly be more depressing.
  • Tort reform, the right way
    Everyone this side of the trial lawyers’ cabal knows that the
    civil-justice system is broken. Fewer than 45 cents of every dollar
    recovered in civil actions wind up in the pockets of the victims; the
    rest goes to the lawyers and their “overhead costs.”

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Ivory Tower Critic

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UNCW’s Ivory Tower Critic, Mike S. Adams, leads us off today with two great opinion pieces.

  • More Lott, Less Moore
    Last semester, one of my students told me that he was down on America. In fact, he said that he was ashamed to be an American.
  • Professors of the world, unite!
    After reading this editorial, you may no longer feel inclined to dig
    deep into your pockets to help your local university or your alma mater.
  • Energy disinformation
    Blaming cyclical swings in energy prices on SUVs may be politically correct, but it’s really quite absurd.
  • Media recruiting less credibility
    Following the Pew Research Center’s latest survey, which shows the
    public’s continued distrust of the American media, one might think the
    press giants would be more careful about their public associations and
    agendas. One would be wrong.

Summertime

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Most of today’s opinion articles have a summertime theme.

  • Summer de-programming

    The summer is a good time to let young people know that what they have
    been told in class is not the only side of the story or the only way to
    look at the world.

  • A Traditional Southern Wedding
    Well, once again it seems that I have offended campus gay activists
    with my most recent article, “Dispelling myths about gay activism.”
  • Teacher unions get active
    School’s out, but the nation’s teacher unions will be working overtime this summer to help elect John Kerry president.
  • Bill’s boring book of bunk
    So Bill Clinton has written a 957-page book about his life. It appears to be the literary equivalent of the movie ‘Airplane!’
  • Dodgeball: Underdogs, Not Victims
    Dodgeball, according to dodgeball great Patches O’Houlihan, is a game
    of ‘aggression, exclusion, and degradation.’ Liberals everywhere are in
    a tizzy.
  • I thought urinals were for men!
    Are you a boy or a girl? Ask any 3-year-old that question, and get a straight answer.