There is one gigantic obstacle that stands before America and our immigration crisis. And, quite frankly, it is in my estimation an insurmountable roadblock that will inhibit any resolution that enforces current immigration law, especially as it pertains to illegal immigrants.

Virtually everyone who knew rapper Tre' Stylez seems to agree that he was destined for critical and mass recognition much greater than the tight Greensboro circle from which he rose, much greater than even the North Carolina scene.

As the TV networks give unlimited airtime to its apologists, the message rolls out that Israel is permitted every illegal act in the lexicon of international law, from acts of violence against a civilian population (the people of Gaza, starved under...

The ghosts that haunt Sen. John McCain are about 600 in number and right now, they are mustering for a final onslaught. McCain, one of America's foremost Republicans and President Barack Obama's opponent in 2008, is currently locked in a desperate bid for political survival in his home state of Arizona.

Watching US members of the House and Senate, and the president's Cabinet in a joint session of Congress stand and applaud Mexican President Felipe Calderon's slam of Arizona's

Hey, how y'all doing? If you read this paper regularly, you're probably looking at the byline and the accompanying photo and wondering who the hell I am. I'm Joe and I'm the summer intern. So for the next several months you're stuck reading me rather than one of the seasoned and professional (i.

With his thick Austrian accent, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quipped in his commencement address at Emory University this past week: "I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me."

It's been an active year so far in the rhetoric of nuclear disarmament. First, the "nuclear posture statement" of the Obama administration put out in early April. Then the non-proliferation meetings, then the START negotiations with the Russians.

I believe the political stars are aligning right now for the opening of a new front in the battle against our gun rights, via the election and work of an anti-gun president, the disarmament passions

Sexual politics commands passions in American political life far more powerful than those currently focused on Wall Street bankers or on BP. By conventional measures, Elena Kagan should sail through her nomination by President Obama to one of the most influential jobs in America – a seat on the US Supreme Court.

In the movie, the naive and idealistic Smith is appointed to the US Senate by a governor that kowtows to the state's top political boss. Smith runs into political corruption when he tries to advance a bill to create a national boys camp, and becomes discouraged.

Sobering is it not, to realize that the possible survival of a huge oil company, of several billion shrimp, assorted species of fish and birds, not to mention avoidance of a near lethal lurch in the fortunes of Louisiana's fishing and ocean rec...

I believe the political stars are aligning right now for the opening of a new front in the battle against our gun rights, via the election and work of an anti-gun president, the disarmament passions of the Washington

Since Chapel-Hill's decision to place the long sought-after pharmacy school in Asheville, I've been left to ponder the idea of UNCG and Wingate working toward their own joint venture, much like UNCG and NC AT University have already done.

Mike Speedling, the assistant city manager for public safety and human relations, and Alice Burkholder, Greensboro's staff liaison for executive searches, kept sentry at the doorway of the meeting room at the coliseum.

Scarce a week goes by without some scaremongering headline about climate change, premised on apocalyptic conclusions drawn from a computer-generated climate model. Modeling lies at the heart of the whole vast climate-change industry, an industry sparked by the big government-backed computer modeling centers in the US and UK.

tightening regulations upon firearm and ammunition manufacturers, using the anti-gun financing of tycoons and ultimately confiscating all firearms under the guise of terrorism patrol and enforcement. Without public debate and cloaked in secrecy, gun control covertly will come upon us like a thief in the night.

About twice a year my friend Joe Garrigan puts on a very special concert. It features dozens of local musicians mixing things up in various new groups. You might call them super groups! They're all covering bands they would love to hear.

After several months of polarizing debate within the American civitas about the philosophical role of government and the more practical and knotty challenges surrounding taxation, the national debt, entitlements and healthcare, immigration has come roaring back with a vengeance.

With the impending departure from the US Supreme Court of Justice John Paul Stevens at the age of 89, we lose one of the nation's Illinois Life Insurance Co. (founded by the grandfather) to try and bail out the hotel. The uncle committed suicide, and Stevens' father time.