Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi must have taught Roy Cooper lessons in effective negotiation tactics. They are each using an old negotiating tactic from a story by O. Henry:  “The Ransom of Red Chief.” You can find it at https://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Henry_Red_chief.pdf    Spoiler Alert: In the next paragraph I’ll tell you the story. You may want […]

May I introduce you to some of the first-degree murderers who had their death sentences indefinitely postponed by our state Supreme Court on June 5. All of these are from Randolph County in chronological order. Kenneth Bernard Rouse     Date of Death Sentence:  03-23-1992 Rouse stabbed Hazel Broadway to death while she was working at a […]

            In considering controversial issues of the day, it is helpful to consider analogous issues from times long past. Consider:             Afghanistan on 9/11. Protected by the Taliban, war was launched by Al-Qaeda against the United States. Early in the conflict the Taliban blew up huge 1500-year-old statues of the Buddha that were located in […]

     Jane Wettach of Duke Law School’s Children’s Law Clinic is on the attack again.      “School Vouchers in North Carolina – The First Three Years” was authored by Professor Jane R. Wettach of the Children’s Law Clinic, Duke Law School in March, 2017. This month she has released another broadside. My analysis of her […]