Perception is now proof: Brady a cheat
Why would East Bladen and West Bladen football coaches Robby Priest and Russell Dove pay any attention to things going on with New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady? Why do any local coaches give...
View ArticleWhen ‘open’ isn’t really open
There are two phrases within the legal system which ring 100 percent true. They are: “The man who represents himself has a fool for a client” and “ignorance of the law is no defense.”
View ArticleThe way forward for Congress
Agreements on Medicare reimbursements in both houses, and on Iran, No Child Left Behind, Pacific trade and other issues in various committees led last month to a chorus of relieved approval both in...
View ArticleHistorian on Hillary Clinton’s challenges
Is it too early to start putting the 2016 presidential election in historical perspective?Maybe.
View ArticleSurvey results are a welcome voting preview
A recently released national research poll of registered North Carolina voters this month by the Civitas Institute shows overwhelming support for legislation in the state that provides legal...
View ArticleA time to honor fallen soldiers and their family
Each May, we take time as a country to celebrate our veterans, lifting them up for all the sacrifices they have made for the freedoms we have. And doing so is the good and right thing. We wouldn't be...
View ArticleWater Fest at a crossroads
The 2015 version of the annual White Lake Water Festival has been in the books now for nearly a week, and its organizers — and here I am referring primarily to the face of the event, which is Dawn...
View ArticleAre there timeless rules for investing?
There's rarely a meeting at which I'm speaking where someone doesn't ask me about investing. Often it's about the stock market, but sometimes there's a question about gold, foreign currencies or even...
View ArticleSurplus should be used for teacher pay
The news out of Raleigh earlier this month was good, even if it wasn't roundly applauded.
View ArticleWho should fund the Wounded Warriors Project?
Dyland Frick's column, “Vets deserve more than lip service,” on the editorial page of the May 27 edition of the Laurinburg Exchange made numerous points that realistic observers of current events have...
View ArticleAlways take ideas seriously
A thought occurred to me as I was traveling in and around the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. The notion didn't have to do with my location but was instead prompted by the lecture I was...
View ArticleThis separation shouldn’t cause ripple effects
Rumors are usually a poor ingredient to base any kind of response to, but in this case we are sure the old adage “where there is smoke, there is fire” can be counted on.Let's take this from the kindling.
View ArticleOn the road to Nashville
As you begin to read this, I am somewhere between Lumberton and Nashville — the one in Tennessee.Vacation? Hardly, although there will be an element of off time involved.
View ArticleCongress: What war powers?
A few weeks ago, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia made a small splash in the press when he took Congress to task for failing to authorize our nation's ongoing war against Islamic militants.
View ArticleRace relations needs a fresh conversation
This country now, perhaps even more than a half-century ago, needs to have a national conversation about race relations and why all the sudden we are in two camps, black and white, and locally, we can...
View ArticleKLOVE Fan Awards weekend highlights
Imagine walking into a restroom and, just inside the door, there stands Darryl Strawberry — the former Major League Baseball player for the Mets and Yankees.
View ArticleContinuing the fight against WOTUS
Last month, the Obama Administration announced they would move forward with a rule that redefines the “Waters of the United States” to potentially include any body of water, no matter how small or how...
View ArticleCongress needs to guide USPS in rural delivery
The National Newspaper Association has again called for measurement of on-time delivery of rural mail.
View ArticleNorth Carolina’s ‘Only in America’ story
He was the most famous North Carolinian in the country, for a moment back in the late 1950s and 1960s.
View ArticleSunday hunting should become law very soon
There isn't much in the way of North Carolina approving legislation that would allow hunting with firearms on Sundays on private property, although locally the legislation is being opposed on the...
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