Pledge allegiance to America “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands — one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” This pledge was pinned in 1892, by Francis Bellamy, an American editor and clergyman. I pray that this pledge […]
North Carolina teachers put in hundreds of hours into their profession. Their work extends far outside the walls of a classroom; they support our state’s children at sports games, band performances, and church programs. They are the glue that holds our schools and communities together. But right now, teachers in North Carolina are overworked, underpaid, […]
On Palm Sunday, April 7, 1968, a young, poorly-prepared (his description) college student got up to preach in a small church in a small North Carolina town. Three days earlier, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis. The young man’s sermon was about reconciliation and, according to him, “I didn’t have a […]
Many conversations about current issues involve various forms of the same question. How can they —meaning either the left, the Cooper Administration, or the Biden Administration —believe that what they are trying to do will be good for our nation? Of course that question is not unique to this generation. Opposing political factions have always […]
When I wrote a few weeks ago about Donald Trump predicting a “bloodbath,” my readers — most of them in civil and respectful tones — were quick to correct me. It was only the auto industry he was referring to, they said. They tried to defend him. They needn’t have bothered. Trump has, since that […]
It might just be a coincidence that former Justice Stephen Breyer’s new book had its official publication date on the same day the court heard argument on the biggest abortion case since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade. In his important new book, “Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, […]
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