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A sign of greatness?
It’s no surprise that UNC President Erskine Bowles would heap praise upon retiring UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser today, during Moeser’s last appearance at a UNC Board of Governors. What surprises…
Quran
foundational Islamic religious text
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Bible or Koran? Does it Matter?
Considering a recent North Carolina judge’s interpretation of North Carolina history and oaths, one might be interested in reading two recent entries on www.northcarolinahistory.org: Oaths and Affirmations.
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I swear …
… that the ACLU won its Koran case in a Wake County court.
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ACLU wins, high-profile murderer loses in Appeals Court
This morning, the N.C. Court of Appeals has delivered a victory to the American Civil Liberties Union in its lawsuit challenging limits on the Holy Scriptures used for North Carolina…
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Are college presidents losing respect for the law?
It would seem so. University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman has reacted to the voter-approved Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which bans race-based preferences in that state’s public colleges and…
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Tough day at UPenn
First we have an incredibly dumb statement by one of UPenn’s foremost journalism educators, followed by the revelation that UPenn’s president, Amy Gutmann, hosted a Halloween party at which she…
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Meditations by some terrorist wannabe dork
Judging from your sterling analysis of Taheri-azar’s Descartes-cribbing and his apparent Quest For Truth, Paul, I’d say it’s a shame ole MT-a didn’t read this best-selling work of fiction: For…
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The hits keep coming
Academic outrages just keep getting more, well, outrageous. A high school textbook in Australia is catching some flak for comparing the Crusades to September 11. Of course, this was just…
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John Locke makes the national news
Raleigh-based writer Patrik Jonsson writes for a variety of publications, including the Christian Science Monitor. Here is his Wednesday piece on the Guilford controversy regarding the desire of some witnesses…
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Strategic Suicide
Two pieces today address whether the war against terror is a clash of civilizations. First, Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Saudi Institute in Washington, D.C., writes in the WSJ that…
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Editorial decisions
Did Newsweek propel Matt Drudge to journalistic prominence in the 1990’s? Ann Coulter observes on Townhall.com that before he produced the Koran desecration story, reporter Michael Isikoff repeatedly uncovered breaking…
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The Value of Anonymous Sources
Newsweek’s retraction of its story that U.S.interrogators had flushed the Quran down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay prison has created a debate over the use of anonymous sources in reporting.…