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Letter to the Editor: Shooting used as means to exploit race

Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have a dream that my ... children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” The recent killing of black teen, Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watchman proves his dream still has not come true.


Letter to the Editor: Federal loan increase leads to tuition hikes

The myth persists. Contrary to the popular idea that federal student loans have been a consequence of rising college tuition prices, which have increased by twice the rate of inflation over the past three decades, the very opposite is true. Federal loans are, at least in part, a cause of such tuition hikes. As The Center for College Affordability and Productivity states, increases in federal student aid since it’s inception in the 1970s have allowed colleges and universities to raise their tuition, confident that federal loan subsidies would help cushion the increase. As a result, annual federal student loan volume has increased tenfold — measured in inflation-adjusted dollars — every year since.


Letter to the Editor: Obama makes empty promises for education

You know it is an election year when liberals like President Barack Obama start making outlandish promises to their various core constituencies in order to attract votes. Often, these promises are far-fetched and to the trained ear they sound too good to be true. And even more often, they involve more government spending and tax increases to pay for them.


Letter to the Editor: Religion misinterpreted

Rather than inviting the Carolina community into a potentially fruitful conversation about a rich subject, columnist Patrick Mitchell, “The Coffee Shop Atheist,” has provided us, for the third time in the past several weeks, with too many ideas to consider at once: an introductory critique of intelligent design concluding with a disputation of biblical interpretation.