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The Primary of All Primaries – Still Not Over

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 16, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Early voting is under way this week in North Carolina’s primary elections. So far there is not much excitement. Sixty-two years ago we had a much different primary and run-off election experience. Voters came out in record...

Ron Rash's "The Cove" – Laurel Shelton or Shelton Laurel

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 9, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Laurel Shelton is the central feature of a new and powerful anti-war novel set in the mountains of Madison County, North Carolina. If I made that statement to anyone familiar with North Carolina’s Civil War history, I would be...

Praying for Bad Things to Happen

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 2, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Why are so many people these days praying for bad things to happen to good people? And what does the answer to that question have to do with the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on the constitutionality of the Patient...

Bookwatch returns with authors who were worth waiting for

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 29, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Those who missed North Carolina Bookwatch on UNC-TV while it has been off the air to make room for “Festival’s” special programming can look forward to this Sunday afternoon at five o’clock. Bookwatch returns with an encore...

The Etch A Sketch problem is not with Romney's campaign

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 26, 2012 | D.G. Martin

“What you need to do as soon as you can is to move as far to the right as you can in good conscience.” A very liberal and savvy North Carolina political advisor gave that advice to the winner of a Democratic primary in a...

There goes my Britannica status

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 19, 2012 | D.G. Martin

It was a great run. You know what I am talking about: since the news about the end of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s print edition, as Scott Hollifield, editor of the McDowell News, writes: “Writers and commentators have waxed...

A Chapel Hill Soldier's World War II Uniform – Safe in Austria

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 17, 2012 | D.G. Martin

In May 1945, the war in Europe was racing towards an end. General George Patton’s Third Army was chasing the broken German forces into Austria. A young North Carolinian, also named Patton, was part of General Patton’s forces. On...

Do the lessons of Vietnam still haunt us?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 12, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Afghanistan is not Vietnam. True enough. But does that obvious truth mean that there are no lessons from our experience in Vietnam? Are there no haunting legacies that affect today’s leaders? Does the Vietnam War have an impact...

Who can tell us how North Koreans really live?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 5, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Charles Robert Jenkins. Does that name ring a bell? Jenkins is a North Carolina native whom I have wanted to meet for a long time. Why? I would like to talk to somebody who knows how North Korea works and how North Koreans think...

Birds from Dinosaurs? Not so fast, says one North Carolinian

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 27, 2012 | D.G. Martin

The publication of a new book by retired UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Alan Feduccia could make our state a battleground in an argument among evolutionary scientists. This fight between evolutionists could make creationists as happy...

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