Gary Gaddy

This is a column that I didn’t publish at the time of a horrific event in Pennsylvania five years ago. I am not sure why I didn’t but I thought… Read more ⇢

MANY AMERICANS DREAM about winning the lottery. Some of them so much so that they are willing to buy lottery tickets to try to do it — which indicates that… Read more ⇢

CHAPEL HILL CALLS its “clean-elections” local ordinance “Voter-Owned Elections.” Who could be against that? Somebody? Anybody? OK, if none of you will volunteer, I guess that leaves me. Advocates of… Read more ⇢

LIKE “THE PURLOINED LETTER” in the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, offensive linemen like Jeff Saturday are hidden in plain sight. Every snap of the football that goes to… Read more ⇢

THE OTHER DAY my tennis buddy Bob Clark and I went to Raleigh to Plug-In 2011, a conference on electric and hybrid electric vehicles. We carpooled in his Jetta SportWagen… Read more ⇢

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The recent pandemic of affluenza which swept across America, as well as major parts of western Europe, may have abated, but, University of North Carolina experts… Read more ⇢

DECATUR, Mich. — For years fans have wondered what happened to Charlie McCarthy, the mischievous dummy who paired with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen in a long and successful career on stage… Read more ⇢

There are many ways to celebrate freedom, but none more appropriate than a list of great quotes enunciating a number of viewpoints on what true freedom is and of what… Read more ⇢

EVER WONDER WHY THE RECOVERY from this current recession is taking so long? Historically, sharp economic declines are followed by steep bounces back up. But not this time. The other… Read more ⇢

THE LAST TAX, THE LATEST TAX, the next proposed tax, is, as always, “just.” (By “just” I don’t mean justified or righteous, I mean “mere” as in “just one cent.”)… Read more ⇢