by Tony W. Cartledge | May 13, 2009 | Opinion
May is promoted by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration as “Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month,” and it’s really needed around here.I heard an alarming statistic on the news: while 20 Marines from Camp Lejeune died in Iraq in 2008, a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 13, 2009 | Opinion
It’s an island country, just off the southeast coast of India. When I studied geography in grammar school, it was called Ceylon. It’s shaped like a giant teardrop, and appropriately so. Sri Lanka has done a lot of weeping. I visited the country several...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 11, 2009 | Opinion
It’s an island country, just off the southeast coast of India. When I studied geography in grammar school, it was called Ceylon. It’s shaped like a giant teardrop, and appropriately so. Sri Lanka has done a lot of weeping.I visited the country several...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 9, 2009 | Opinion
It’s graduation season for colleges and universities, a number of which are awarding honorary doctorates to a variety of luminaries. One of the least famous but most deserving of those recipients was honored May 8 during graduation ceremonies for the Campbell...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 6, 2009 | Opinion
As I lay in bed this morning, listening to the predawn serenade of our bedroom window birdie, I pondered what subject to approach in today’s blog. Several subjects came to mind, but none stood out more than the thoughts contained in David Gushee’s recent...
