The year was 135 B.C. A huge double comet with curved tails, the Sinope Comet, appeared in the sky over Pontus, now Turkey. Surely magi must have come from the East and maybe the West, […]
Redistricting is a necessary function of our democratic republic. Gerrymandering is a perversion of a critical self-governance function which distorts the concept of free and fair elections. Massachusetts Gov. Eldridge Gerry, the progenitor of the […]
There have been over 4,500 bright young high school student leaders who have been awarded The Morehead-Cain, known as The Morehead Scholarship until 2007, since inception in 1951. The hope was every recipient would go […]
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. It has its religious and historical roots in the Jamestown, Virginia, and Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, settlements in 1619 and 1620, respectively. Historical revisionists such as Nikole Hannah-Jones and The […]
It was 84 years ago that a Duke University football team achieved what many considered absolutely impossible: an undefeated, untied and unscored-upon season. North Carolina Republicans can do the same thing in the upcoming 2023-24 […]
If Republicans take control of Congress and the U.S. Senate, they should take a little advice from French novelist Eugène Sue in his 1846 series “Memoirs of Matilda:” “La vengeance se mange très-bien froide comme […]
Too many people on the left want to reshape our nation to be based on identity politics and pure unadulterated democracy. Thomas Jefferson saw such factionalism and chaotic mob rule in the Jacobinic rebellions in […]
Political parties and politicians just can’t help themselves. Giving them total control of government is like giving a teenager the keys to the car while the parents are out of town ― chances are much […]
Former UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp published “The Charade of Political Neutrality” in the Sept. 16 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. He tried to make the case that conservative politicians want to […]
In a 1987 ad about drug abuse, a man holds up an egg and says, “This is your brain.” He cracks the egg and drops it into a hot pan which then sizzled and popped […]
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