The next few weeks I bet you will be attending a graduation ceremony--yours or a friend’s or a family member’s. In an earlier column I shared …
With only a few days left to cast ballots in the 2022 primaries, most North Carolinians are worried and frustrated. Many are furious. Some 62%…
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The 2020 Democratic presidential primary race was a bidding war in which the various candidates advocated spending trillions of dollars to ena…
I’m a conservative without a conversion story. Plenty of others have such a tale — they read a certain book, had a certain teacher, or somehow…
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