Critics rely on legal tricks to attack Opportunity Scholarships
Seven years after the state's highest court upheld a scholarship program, it faces another strikingly similar legal attack.
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Evaluating our coastal wetlands and coastal water quality
This commentary will be a shock to the “No Wetlands, No Seafood” bumper sticker crowd, but if things are going to get better regarding NC coastal water quality, it’s time we all have an honest discussion about the truth. There has been a cover-up in the scientific community about the…
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Only an ‘extreme partisan’ Supreme Court would rule against N.C. election maps
A ruling against legislative defendants in North Carolina's latest redistricting dispute would require multiple questionable decisions from the state Supreme Court.
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The Biden administration’s hand is in the cookie jar
President Biden's failed border policies are taking away valuable resources from our public health initiatives.
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The people have already spoken on who represents them on NC Supreme Court
The Court doesn’t choose its justices. The people choose the Court’s justices by electing them.
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Revolutionary history surrounds us
If you grew up in North Carolina, you grew up surrounded by reminders of America’s founding era and Revolutionary War.
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We have much fear already, so stop trying to create angst, uncertainty
We have so much to fear. From an innumerable list of things natural and manmade. If that is, we choose to effectually succumb to the doubt and the uncertainty. The mainstream media, in fact, encapsulates that fear and profits from it, driving ratings and…
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Why the Fourth Estate is in receivership
The fourth estate, journalism, is racing to receivership unless we can rescue it from its rapacious self. The hubris hasn’t always been this bad, this blatant, or this biased, yet it worsens daily. In the town I grew up in, Nashville, Tennessee, there were two newspapers in the 1950s and…
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Three-judge panel to make quick decision in N.C. redistricting trial
Democrat Party-aligned groups challenging North Carolina’s recently enacted election maps told a three-judge panel Thursday that the maps are extremely partisan. They said the maps for legislative and congressional elections are so partisan in favoring Republican candidates that they violate North Carolina’s constitutional guarantee of “free elections.” That was a…
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A new year should remind us of old truths about government
Our ability to self-govern is the enduring question we continually grapple with yet struggle to answer decisively.