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• advice Goddess: I got spew, babe

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 13:10

  You wrote in your column, “Men, especially, are compelled to ditch what’s chasing them and chase what’s trying to ditch them.” It seems you’re advising that the simple desire to love a man must be approached without authenticity and personal int...

• Immersionist tries 12 religions in 12 months

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 13:08

  By John North john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   Andrew Bowen took on 12 religion in 12 months when he dreamed up Project Conversion in 2011. In an Oct. 3 presentation in Asheville, Bowen spoke of his year-long personal immersion into the culture, p...

• Whole-food, plant-based diet urged by expert

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 13:05

  First in a series of two articles     From Staff Reports   After listening to nutrition expert-researcher-health advocate T. Colin Campbell, many in the crowd might think twice before they consumed milk or meat again. In an hour-long ...

• Diet affects inner, outer well-being, health guru claims

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 13:04

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   Dr. Andrew Weil, a renowned integrative health specialist, addressed a crowd of about 500 people Oct. 19 at UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Arena. Billed as “Spontaneous Happiness Comes to Asheville,” ...

• letters to the Editor: November 2012

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:55

  Joe Biden declared as clear winner of VP debate I think (Vice President Joe) Biden beat (GOP opponent Paul) Ryan, on both style and substance. At least Biden knows how to smile! But I worry that voters and the med...

• Daily Planet’s Opinion: Quaint Asheville earns place in national election spotlight

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:53

  Asheville, with a population of 84,500 free-thinkers, can take pride in the fact that, despite its modest size, it has drawn visits from two of the four major candidates stumping in the 2012 election cycle. Many much larger U.S. cities did not attract a ...

• The Candid Conservative: Liberal pretenders at UNCA

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:49

  By CARL MUMPOWER Vice President Joe Biden and Air Force Two just graced Asheville ... Joe’s a masterful apologist for the left and the “promise anything for power” practices of the Democratic Party.  He did a great job of fluffing up the faith...

• Feeling for Obama after 1st debate

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:46

  By D.G. MARTIN CHAPEL HILL —  I know how Obama feels. Or in the words of the acknowledged champion debater and explainer, Bill Clinton, “I feel his pain.” Why and how can I make such a claim? Because I was a political candidate who had the o...

• On the left: After the storm, we will survive

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:43

  By CECIL BOTHWELL   As I write this column, the 2012 election is a long two weeks away, the finale to what seems to have been a four year campaign — at least on the part of the GOP.  Republicans announced shortly after the 2008 race that th...

• Republican ads accused of muddling truth

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:41

  By LEE BALLARD   The topic is Republican advertising.  The tactics of the millionaires in Raleigh and their think-tanks and foundations have been documented elsewhere. (The most complete can be Googled at “state for sale pope mayer.”) ...

• ‘Atlas Shrugged II’ entertains, instructs

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:39

  By TERRILL I. ELNIFF   Having just finished re-reading Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” (after 30 years since the first reading), I have been awaiting the coming of Part II of the movie. I own a copy of Part I, which I have shown to various intere...

• Other rally speakers prove colorful

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:36

  From Staff Reports   Early on the morning of Oct. 11, the area outside downtown Asheville’s U.S. Cellular Center was crowded with supporters of Republican presidential  candidate Mitt Romney supporters — and a few protesters — as nearby ...

• Huckabee, Boehner rev up Asheville crowd for Romney

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:34

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   The two special-guest speakers at the Oct. 11 Victory Rally for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in downtown Asheville — former Ark. Gov. and Fox News host Mike Huckabee and Speaker of t...

• Article calling Mormonism a ‘cult’ nixed after Romney visit

  Created: Friday, 02 November 2012 12:31

  From Staff Reports   A story on the Billy Graham Evangelical Association website that called Mormonism a cult was removed following an Oct. 11 visit by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney with the Rev. Billy Graham at the latter’s Montreat hom...

• Biden rips GOP rivals in speech at UNCA

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:52

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   Vice President Joe Biden emphasized growing the economy and creating middle-class jobs, while slamming his and President Barack Obama’s Republican rivals —whom he characterized as extremist conserv...

• ‘Little’ Israel destined to KO Iran’s nukes, Bolton says

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:47

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   BREVARD — “Little” Israel likely will be the lone nation willing to stand up and knock out Iran’s nuclear missile capability — and it’s a sure bet that the United States will be blamed, “...

• Fired BCGOP official awaits appeal verdict; claims process biased

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:44

  By JOHN NORTH john@ashevilledailyplanet.com   Don Yelton, a local Republican who was voted off the Buncombe County GOP’s executive committee on June 25, told the Daily Planet in a recent email that his appeal of the removal has been passed to th...

• 4 candidates square off at CIBO forum

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:39

  From Staff Reports The candidates landed some blows during a forum featuring the aspirants for two seats in N.C. House districts 115 and 116 at a Power Lunch Sept. 27 at Magnolia’s Raw Bar & Grille in downtown Asheville. The forum, hosted by t...

• Consolidation of WCU programs in Asheville at Biltmore Park lauded

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:36

  From Staff Reports   Western Carolina University celebrated the consolidation of its Asheville-area graduate and undergraduate academic programs at Biltmore Park with an open house and reception — and a speech by WCU Chancellor David O. Belcher a...

• Greenway spending draws fire at forum

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 16:33

  From Staff Reports    WOODFIN — The projected spending of $40 million in local taxpayers’ money for a countywide system of greenways was lambasted as the hidden agenda of elite special interests who run the county for their own gain, Don G...