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Voller’s follies show Democratic Party’s failures

The new state Democratic Party chairman is a gaffe machine who undermines his party’s efforts to offer options to Republican policies.

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Moeser is wrong to blame media for UNC scandals

The former UNC chancellor should be angry that the athletic and academic scandals happened, but instead he’s upset by the reporting.

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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...