Nominations are being sought for the panel that will investigate the Klan-Nazi killings. I would like to suggest two people for consideration: Eric Muller, the UNC law professor and author of the IsThatLegal weblog, and John Hammer, the editor of the Rhinoceros Times.
Muller, the author of a book on Japanese-American internment during WWII, would bring a non-Greensboro perspective to the panel. Hammer, the brains behind a successful and highly conservative alternative newspaper in Greensboro, would provide credibility from outside the expected political spectrum of the panel.
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What a curious op-ed in this morning’s Times. The article was dedicated to the proposition that gambling isn’t so bad, which is fine. Yet it was pegged to the Bill Bennett affair while ignoring almost completely Bennett’s career as a professional scold, which is of course what the whole circus is about. Writer James McManus also trots out Michael Jordan as another example of a famous person wrongly besmirched by stories about his gambling, as if questions about an athlete's high-rolling are not central to the integrity of sports. It’s fine for the Times to give McManus space to promote his book, but shouldn’t he have to at least wave at the real stories as he blows by them?
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