by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 23, 2010 | Opinion
As I was mowing my lawn recently, taking care to cut at a different angle than the previous mowing, I remembered a quick glance from a bus window that had made a lasting impression.While riding a shuttle bus from Honolulu’s airport to the Ala Moana Hotel last...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 20, 2010 | Opinion
It’s bad enough that right-wing opportunists have turned the proposed building of a mosque near New York City’s “Ground Zero” into a political mowing machine designed to make hay for their anti-Obama cause, claiming that the proposed mosque...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 18, 2010 | Opinion
Do you get tired of unsolicited emails clogging your inbox with offers of everything from Viagra to sure-fire stocks to a 20 percent share of Sister Fatima from Nigeria’s unexpected $20 million inheritance?Spam has been around for so long that we’ve gotten...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 16, 2010 | Opinion
The proposed construction of a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero has reached “scorching” on the hot-button scale of controversy. Political conservatives almost uniformly oppose the mosque, arguing that it encroaches too closely onto the sacred soil where...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 13, 2010 | Opinion
Wake County (N.C.) Public School Board meetings have been quite lively ever since a newly-elected conservative majority started taking steps to repeal the county’s nationally acclaimed diversity policy and replace it with one that promotes neighborhood schools....
