Opinion
What can be, unburdened by what has been
Like the France of the Olympic opening ceremony, Harris wants to recreate herself anew, forgetting the inconvenient past in favor of the radical future.
Opinion
Has Toby Keith’s America passed too?
I arrived on Western Carolina University’s campus as a freshman in 2002. The deadly attacks on New York City and Arlington, Virginia (only a few miles from my home) were less than a year in the rearview. We already had boots on the ground in Afghanistan, and President George W. Bush was ramping up calls...
Opinion
South Carolina’s state library just gave far-left ALA the boot. NC should too.
If you’ve kept up with the news at all, you have doubtless run across a note about the South Carolina State Library (which serves the libraries statewide) severing ties with the American Library Association (ALA). (Full disclosure: I was appointed to the SC Library Board in 2020, but I do not speak for the board,...
Opinion
A night at ‘Barbenheimer’ Part 1: Barbie’s critics miss the point
Movies are back! While they haven’t technically gone anywhere, as studios have continuously forced them onto the unsuspecting public (even during the past few years of the COVID-stricken world), the movies have finally returned to their intended form! For decades, the standard modus operandi of the average American moviegoer was to pile up all the...
Opinion
Ending the name game
President Joe Biden visited North Carolina’s Fort Liberty last Friday, the largest military base, not only in the nation, but in the world. He spoke with troops only a week after the base had its name changed from Fort Bragg, which had been a controversial name because Braxton Bragg had been a Confederate general and...
Opinion
Two-minute warning?
What I know about sports of any kind would fill a thimble with ample room left for your finger. But I have been around football long enough (every male in my family played at some level) to know what the two-minute warning is. For those who may be head-scratching, the two-minute warning is a signal...
Opinion
Outrageous story of the week: Where have all the corporate activists gone?
During N.C. Senate hearings on the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, one particular moment jumped out that showed just how much the momentum has shifted in recent years. While discussing whether biological boys should be allowed to compete on girls’ teams and change in their locker rooms, Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, asked the bill sponsor,...
Opinion
Public debate suffers when media caricature conservatives’ concerns
It's hard for the public to make fair assessments of conservative education reforms when all they read and hear is misguided spin.
Opinion
The librarians are not okay. It’s their own fault
About a month ago, The Atlantic, now a very left-leaning magazine, published a piece by Xochitl Gonzalez titled, “The Librarians Are Not Okay.” The piece, a screed really, was featured in “One Story to Read,” a newsletter that the left-leaning editors there recommend as a “must-read” from The Atlantic. Now, granted, I have written in...
Opinion
Outrageous story of the week: Communication breakdown
The outrageous story of the week is not one story but a series of stories that show that communication is beginning to breakdown in our state and nation. It started on Monday, when there was a shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee, Christian school, where six people, both teachers and students, were killed by a former...
Opinion
Stein’s (very early) campaign ad compares first black Lt Gov to segregationist bomber, and other outrageous stories
Apparently current N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein is officially kicking off his campaign for governor. Everybody assumed he would eventually announce, but, maybe in a year or so. For some reason, he decided to make it official now, though, and kicked it off with an ad comparing North Carolina’s first black Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson,...
Opinion
Beware them mama bears!
Mama bears. The image that comes to mind is a giant female grizzly going berserk upon realizing something or someone has come between her and her baby. My wife says “I bore that child in pain,” and all of that pain, and more, will come down on anything, or anyone, threatening that divine biological womb-bond....
