It shouldn’t be lost on the public that a growing number of members within the Democratic Party have been campaigning to undermine the rule of law and the judicial system for their political benefit. Furthermore, their political ends are divergent from the principles of a well-ordered liberal democracy. Their political messaging increasingly undermines the rule...
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty,” Thomas Jefferson I love the First Amendment with a burning hot passion of a thousand suns. It’s what drew me to journalism. Fear of losing it drew me to public policy. More information is freedom. Less information is tyranny. Freedom of speech,...
As we move into 2018, speculation over who will emerge as the 2020 Democratic nominee for president will begin in earnest. In my view, the early front-runner is U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Independent socialist from Vermont. Coming seemingly out of nowhere in 2016, Sanders gave Hillary Clinton a run for her money for the...
There is no doubt Barack Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008 was a watershed in America’s racial history. A Gallup poll of the time found one-third of all Americans believed it constituted the most important advance for blacks in a century. Today, that optimism makes the developments of the past eight years all the...
RALEIGH — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has chosen North Carolina to lead a pilot program bringing the trendy concept of farm-to-table dining to public school lunchrooms across the state. As part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Schools Act of 2010, inspired by the advocacy of First Lady Michelle Obama, the USDA will help underwrite the cost of placing organic produce gardens, livestock grazing areas, and poultry ranges on school grounds.
The first lady finds herself the latest target of North Carolina's aggressive nutrition police. Law enforcement officials say Michelle Obama does not have a state license and should not offer nutritional and other lifestyle advice.
A film that's supposed to be an unblinking exposé of K-12 public schools ducks key questions and refuses to advocate scrapping a failed system.
The official theme of the first night of the Democratic National Convention may have been “Americans Coming Together,” but the speeches offered little more than a litany of grievances.
The use of extreme language, analogies, or images that demean others merely serves to demean ourselves, our causes, and our society.
It’s time for courageous reformers inside and outside the education establishment to say, “This is not working.”
RALEIGH — Although much of critics’ firepower has been leveled at the bill’s expansion of federal power, another objection is that it falls short in addressing potential fraud.
