There will be a joint meeting of the Moore Republican Men's and Women's Clubs Thursday, May 14, at the Country Club of North Carolina (CCNC). Social time is 11 a.m., and luncheon served at noon.

Dr. Mike S. Adams will be the featured speaker. Adams is a well-known author and will personally sign his latest book, "Feminists Say the Darndest Things." He is a professor at UNC-Wilmington and teaches in the criminal justice program.

He currently writes a column for Townhall.com and has made television appearances on Hannity and Combs, the O'Reilly Factor and Scarborough Country. Call Joan Ward at 295-6544 for reservations. Cost of the luncheon is $15.

Adams was born Oct. 30, 1964, in Columbus, Miss. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas, his team won the state 5-A soccer championship. He graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. He was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school.

After obtaining an associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, he moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his bachelor's degree and then to pursue a master's degree in psychology. In 1990, he turned down a chance to pursue a doctorate in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study sociology/criminology.

He says this decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. He says he also played for free beer.

Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.

After his involvement in a well-publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.

Today he enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and as a writer. He is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. He published his first book, "Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel," in 2004.