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MATTHEWS: Another one to file under ‘journalists behaving badly’
March 22, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on MATTHEWS: Another one to file under ‘journalists behaving badly’Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looks on after announcing a proposal for Digital Bill of Rights, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) The higher you [...] -
HARRIS: Less rancor, professor, and more reason
March 21, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on HARRIS: Less rancor, professor, and more reasonJohn Harris “Villainous.” “Terrorism.” “Lawlessness.” “Fraudulent.” These are some of the choice words that Professor Gene Nichol recently deployed against five elected justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court on the pages of the Charlotte Observer. The invective [...] -
MOORE: Death taxes are immoral; Even worse, they don’t work
March 18, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on MOORE: Death taxes are immoral; Even worse, they don’t work“I have no respect for the passion of equality,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America’s great jurists, once declared, “which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” But envy, and its sister vice, greed, are [...] -
MATTHEWS: Hello, spring
March 15, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on MATTHEWS: Hello, springA bee searches for pollen on a flower during a sunny spring day. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) Why, hello there, springtime, you gorgeous thing, you. Though most of the groundhogs here in North Carolina and Punxsutawney, [...] -
MATTHEWS: Crime once again emerges as a campaign issue for Democrats
March 8, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on MATTHEWS: Crime once again emerges as a campaign issue for DemocratsFILE – District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Back in November 2020, House Democrats paid the price for their association with the radical “Defund the Police” [...] -
PRAGER: What are Judeo-Christian values?
February 26, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on PRAGER: What are Judeo-Christian values?Dennis Prager attends Politicon at The Pasadena Convention Center on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP) The term “Judeo-Christian values” is frequently used. I am one who uses it. I [...] -
HILL: Reticence and prudence
February 15, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on HILL: Reticence and prudenceRochelle Gurstein wrote “The Repeal of Reticence” in 1996 which detailed ― and implicitly bemoaned ― the loss of personal privacy due mostly to intrusive prurient journalism. “(Reverence for privacy)” she wrote, “should be understood [...] -
HILL: One giant leap for free speech at UNC Chapel Hill
February 1, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on HILL: One giant leap for free speech at UNC Chapel HillThe Old Well on the campus of The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees struck a blow for free [...] -
ZAHRAN: The careless world of Joe Biden
January 30, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on ZAHRAN: The careless world of Joe BidenPresident Joe Biden speaks during a reception to celebrate the Lunar New Year in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) “Careless: Taking insufficient care; negligent. [...] -
PRAGER: Who’s more irrational — the religious or the irreligious?
January 27, 2023 The North State Journal North State Journal, opinion Comments Off on PRAGER: Who’s more irrational — the religious or the irreligious?Dennis Prager attends Politicon at The Pasadena Convention Center on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP) There are very few things conservatives, liberals and leftists agree on. But if they [...]