My grandson loves basketball more than anything … well, except eating. After watching him play basketball from about 5 years old, when points were not kept and the pace was furious, through the ranks to […]
Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University. They hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their “labor” rather than […]
Critics and Democrats claim Republican leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly “assaulted democracy” when they called for two legislative veto override votes early last Wednesday morning when only 64 of the 120 House members […]
If you paid attention to the political media in advance of last Tuesday’s 9th Congressional District special election, you might have gotten the impression Democrat Dan McCready was going to win it. Everyone was predicting […]
Sarah Sanders may no longer be White House press secretary, but she’s still got a lot to say. Sanders, who retired from the White House in late June, talked about a variety of topics during […]
Elderly leaders of “The Resistance” movement — think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren— grew up in the ’60s protesting the Vietnam War; talking about peace and love; burning bras to support women’s rights and demanding […]
I have been asked many times why 20% of North Carolina families are no longer in the public school system — a number that is growing by the day. Let me share a real story […]
The trick to writing good legislation is coming up with something that doesn’t have bad side effects. Case in point: The Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 now being considered in Congress. Supporters say they’re trying […]
On Sept. 10, 2001, exactly one day before the phrase “ground zero” came to mean the unthinkable, the unbearable, Amherst professor Jennie Traschen went on record calling the American flag a symbol of “terrorism and […]
The North Carolina State Employees Health Plan’s (SEHP) proposal to pay network hospitals less than in the past has been blocked this year by the state’s hospital community, precipitating a visible, high-drama dispute that promises […]
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