Jesse Helms

Fact Check: Was McCain the "biggest cheerleader" for launching Iraq war?

Was McCain the 'biggest cheerleader' for launching the war in Iraq?. The Statement: At a rally Sunday, Nov. 2, in Columbus, Ohio, Sen. Barack Obama cited Sen. John McCain's "endorsement" from Vice President Dick Cheney. "He...

Reaching out to Sikh voters

Sikhs are a fairly small group of voters in America, so I’m always intrigued when a candidate reaches out to us. I expected the Obama campaign to issue Diwali greetings and figured he’d direct it to Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. But...

Obama's Quiet Harvard Roots

As a Harvard Law School student, Obama became a favorite of prominent faculty members and rose to lead the prestigious Harvard Law Review, accomplishments that would serve him as he left Cambridge to embark on a career in...

No matter who wins, Defense Secretary Robert Gates should stay

No matter who is elected president on Tuesday, Barack Obama or John McCain, he should seriously consider retaining Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a frontline member of his Cabinet. In order to bring about political...

Negative Ads Mark Campaign Season's End

CBS Evening News: Campaign Commercials Distorting Opponents' Records Becoming Commonplace In State, National Races (CBS) We're coming to the end of another election campaign season that has, like so many before it, become...

Some wait up to 5 hours to cast ballots

Pedro Velasquez settled in line Saturday, armed with everything he needed for a long wait.He had come to the Independence Regional Library to cast his first vote as an American citizen.He had a portable chair, water, a magazine...

Issue of race cannot be ignored

From her post at a downtown formal-wear rental shop, from customers black and white, Shelia Baker gets an earful of racially tinged talk about Barack Obama.Black customers, she says, seem to favor Obama because he's African...

N.C. campaign ads: Wall of Shame 2008

North Carolina has long been home to offensive negative advertising in campaigns. Jesse Helms' “white hands” ad against Harvey Gantt in 1990 and Jim Hunt's Central American death squads ad against Helms in 1984 have been among...

Scarborough Continues to Whitewash Far-Right Extremism as Media Bias Despite Evidence Media...

In an election year that has even most seasoned political watchers aghast at some of the far-right extremism on display, two articles provide more detail about the kind of extremism that is being stirred by the far-right and...

Gantt doesn't dwell on past defeats

The voice on the other end of the phone belongs to the first black student enrolled at Clemson University and Charlotte's first black mayor.But with polls showing the country could elect an African American president within...