Opinion
Does Madison Cawthorn have a point about Washington’s morality?
If Cawthorn’s remarks are true, maybe the bigger story is that even somebody with the moral failings that he has is scandalized by the debauched behavior in D.C.
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You say it best…
Opinion
A big picture approach to current events
Voyager 1 was a NASA spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the universe. In 1990, after its mission was complete, it exited the solar system and turned its camera around to photograph the planets. The resulting shot shows the earth as a single blue dot in a picture of over a million pixels. The earth...
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Cleanup crew
Opinion
Conservatives see freedom as progress
For some, our strongest impulse is for government, an inherently coercive institution, to butt out of our private affairs and decisions. For others, the strongest impulse is to butt in.
Opinion
New judge can correct $1.7 billion unconstitutional error
Judge Michael Robinson can reject his predecessor's faulty decision to bypass the General Assembly's power of the purse.
Opinion
Heaven knows, anything goes
The phase that headlines this piece is from Cole Porter’s song that was also the name of his 1934 musical, “Anything Goes.” Written almost 100 years ago now, Porter predicted our decorum plight without knowing it, a better scryer than those with crystal balls. One of my favorite lines runs, “Good authors, too, who once...
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For the kids
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Exports
Opinion
Feds blew it on COVID relief
The federal government’s fiscal response to COVID was excessive, poorly targeted, and badly administered. Its costs will burden us for many years to come.
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Big tech
Opinion
North Carolina provides a strong military – Biden is trying to cut it
North Carolina bases serve as an economic bedrock to communities – the military provides $66 billion to our state’s economic activity.
