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Monday, November 30, 2020
I was really impressed with the Sept. 4 article by Tom Campbell, creator and host of NC SPIN. The heading was “It’s time to reckon with racism.” Tom stated that North Carolina and our nation have a crisis more critical than the pandemic. It is a moral crisis — the crisis of racism. I add tha…
Sunday, November 29, 2020
A Greenville man I know recently learned his local pharmacy was no longer ‘in network,’ and that he’d have to choose a new one. He was steered to a limited list of mostly big-box chain pharmacies, which would be a huge change for this man, who has several complex medical conditions and is th…
President Donald Trump has it exactly, eternally wrong. This year’s election was not a fraud or a failure. It was a glorious triumph for American democracy, and this week we should all be thanking the heroes who helped make that victory possible.
The Trump campaign’s top lawyers — Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis — went into last weekend on the offensive. On Thursday, they held a news conference vowing to prove the existence of a far-ranging conspiracy to defeat the president. They were pressing a case alleging unfair voting…
Friday, November 27, 2020
There was a welcome sigh of relief last week that President Trump seems to be ending his fruitless assault on President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
North Carolina has an opportunity. Meaning North Carolina as a whole, but also as a sum of its complex and diverse parts.
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Thursday, November 26, 2020
North Carolina has experienced just about everything imaginable this year, so with one month to go let’s look at what to expect.
Mac Hodges never knew a stranger. Whether you knew him as a friend or as the committed mayor of Washington, if you knew Mac, he knew you right back.
In the wake of the 2020 election, many Americans are wondering whether bipartisanship is even possible anymore.
While modern conservatism in America brings together a number of discrete groups, interests, and priorities, one of its unifying themes is maximizing freedom — by which conservatives mean maximizing the right of individuals, families, and private associations to make their own decisions rath…
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
While modern conservatism in America brings together a number of discrete groups, interests, and priorities, one of its unifying themes is maximizing freedom — by which conservatives mean maximizing the right of individuals, families, and private associations to make their own decisions rath…
North Carolina may never see another Democratic governor like Roy Cooper. In fact, we may never see another Democratic statewide candidate like him.
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our discussion of race. Good analytical thinking requires that we do not confuse one behavioral phe…
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
When the Associated Press and other news organizations asked North Carolina voters for their perspectives on the just-concluded 2020 elections, there was no shortage of disagreement.
Something strange happened in my neighborhood the other day. It was a warm and pleasant Thursday — the day on which a city sanitation truck arrives each week to empty the trash bins.
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Dear Mayor P.J. Connelly and City Council members Will Bell, William Litchfield and Brian Meyerhoeffer,
Greetings and Salutations my fellow Pitt County residents.
When it became clear that COVID-19 would make its way to our country, state and region, Vidant Health began developing a response to protect eastern North Carolina.
Remember the debate over the meaning of the phrase “defund the police”? Repeated over and over on the progressive left, it seemed pretty clear — it meant that cities should no longer fund, and thus effectively abolish, their police forces. But some Democrats worried that embracing such a rad…
Jodi Doering, an emergency room nurse in South Dakota, tweeted this description of COVID-19 patients she’s been treating: “The ones that stick out are those who still don’t believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine, and that Joe Biden is going to ruin the USA…
Friday, November 20, 2020
I love the thanksgiving service when the congregation sings “Come Ye Thankful People Come,” and “We Gather Together to Ask the Lord’s Blessing.” Usually, the congregation presents canned goods and items for those in need. This year will be different.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
New North Carolina collided with Old North Carolina in the 2020 election. It was a split decision. The battle goes on.
You present to a physician with severe abdominal pain. He examines you and concludes that your ingrown toenails are the cause of your abdominal distress. He prescribes that you soak your feet in warm water but that does not bring relief to your abdominal pain. Then he suggests that you apply…
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