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UNC-Wilmington unfairly throwing sports overboard
After an 82 percent funding decrease and four years of sweeping its fiscal problems under the rug, UNC-Wilmington’s Intercollegiate Athletic Review Committee moved to recommend that the university eliminate swimming and diving as well as four other programs.
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JIM JENKINS
Jenkins: A heart still beating after 200 years
A young man named Daniel White was converted at a Baptist revival in Scotland somewhere around 1800, and it took. White became a minister, and married another convert, Catherine Campbell. It was Daniel White’s wish to minister to those from his country who had migrated to America.
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Lawmakers throwing obstacles into path of dutiful, young Americans
The ‘Equalize Voter Rights Act’ would require college students to vote in their home counties or forfeit their status as dependents, levying a sizable new tax burden on parents. The unique threat that NC college ballots pose to our democratic republic has never been made clear.
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Krauthammer: There’s an IRS fly only in conservative soup
We are asked to believe that an IRS cadre of Cincinnati GS-11s is a hotbed of radical-left activism in America. Is anyone stupid enough to believe that?
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Apple and the rotten core of tax-code complexity
Apple has brought American consumers such popular wonders as the iPad, iPod and iPhone and earned billions of dollars in the process. It’s in hot water with Congress now, however, because of something it has not done: regularly paid the top U.S. corporate income tax rate of 35 percent on ...
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Time to acknowledge the connection between abortion and later preterm birth
Senate Bill 132 requires that the state’s health curriculum teach preventable causes of preterm birth including induced abortion. Opponents say its purpose is to promote a nonscientific, pro-life agenda in public schools. This is a misrepresentation of the indisputable evidence that a prior...
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Obama the retrencher presides over a sharp turn inward on foreign policy
In 2012, three countries became freer and more democratic, while 27 became less so – the seventh consecutive year of more declines than gains. That’s an unprecedented streak in the wrong direction – and not consistent with long-term, hard-headed U.S. interests.
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As the Supreme Court rules on prayers in public offices
Ideally, governmental bodies would refrain from including prayers in their public proceedings. But if prayers are to be offered, they certainly shouldn’t be monopolized by a single religious tradition. That is how the Supreme Court should rule in a case involving a town in New York state.
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A mother dies, then a job outrageously taken
While the Catholic Church doesn’t condemn homosexuality per se, it considers any physical expression of it sinful. A “public declaration of an extramarital relationship” in an obituary means a Columbus woman flouted Catholic tenets and thus breached her teaching contract. She...
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Crossing the climate line
For the first time, the daily average for carbon dioxide levels hit 400 ppm. It’s a wake-up call.
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Loneliness in America and the little way of life
Too often, and probably increasingly, not enough Americans will have what a place that knew them intimately, a community to lean on, a strong network in a time of trial.
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