Over on the Campus Blueprint blog, my friend Wilson Parker asks if the new meditation room is an example of inclusivity or favoritism. It’s definitely favoritism. First, let me be clear that I do not think the “room is unfair to Christians.” Like I said in my original post, the…

An editorial in today’s DTH lauded a recent decision by the Union Board of Directors to create a “meditation room” almost solely due to lobbying efforts by Muslim students. This is a decision I don’t particularly disagree with- the editorial did mention the fact that, since Muslims pray five times…

For anyone interested, here is the piece I wrote for the Pope Center on conservatism at Carolina: http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2611

Apparently, Jim Neal, former Senate candidate, misses what every sane person understands. At a meeting of the Chapel Hill Town Council, he submitted a petition which read: Many questions remain unanswered in regard to the Chapel Hill Police Department’s deployment on Sunday November 13th 2011 of a heavily-armed Special Emergency…

Sometimes, I have this sneaking suspicion that the Occupy movement is actually a terribly clever parody of left-wing protests, a bunch of (inevitably) Koch-funded conservatives/libertarians who are satirizing the intellectual bankruptcy of the Kumbaya, warmed-over Marxist leftism that we see today. Reading the recent DTH article about the motor company…

The Occupy Chapel Hill branch of OWS is proving Jesse Helms’s quip that Chapel Hill is the “zoo” of North Carolina more true than he ever imagined, I’m sure. Occupying private property in the name of the 99%-who don’t support the movement in the first place– is a horrendous in…