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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 abortion...
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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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Amid the dim-bulb NC bills, a bright spot
The state Senate has passed a bill that makes it a crime to install and use vehicle headlights that are not approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation. We’ll all be safer.
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Dear President Obama: It’s called news, not espionage
The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold.
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Jones & Blount
This week’s installment of “Jones & Blount,” a strip focused on the doings down at the General Assembly.
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At the NC governor’s political pleasure
A new bill would make it nearly impossible for state employees to challenge their dismissals, a practical return to North Carolina’s 19th century personnel system.
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Flipping classrooms increases collaboration, higher thinking
This month Luke Miles, eighth-grade social studies teacher at Durant Road Middle School, was named Wake County Teacher of the Year and was praised for using the flipped classroom technique.
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