We often use our free speech rights at the top of our lungs and in public spaces to protest loudly, proudly and prominently.
The kid and I were chatting by phone one evening. It’s mostly how we communicate nowadays, since she doesn’t want to inadvertently give her da…
Reminiscing with one of my mother’s photo albums, I encountered a snapshot of a long-deceased neighbor (a dear, sweet man) who is still summed…
Opinion: For decades we have told our youth to “stay true to yourself” and “stick up for what you believe,” as if there were some virtue in st…
Episode 5: We also discuss whether the Republican Party would be in a stronger place today had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in 2016.
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 is a date which will live in infamy, along with 9/11, Nov. 22, 1963 and Dec. 7, 1941.
The domestic terrorism that we witnessed last Wednesday was always bound to happen. The feral creature who nurtured it had long signaled us th…
Why should we be surprised that at a time when everything is supposed to be about race, from the skin color of certain newspaper editors force…
RALEIGH — It was the summer of 1987 when I first stepped inside the United States Capitol to work instead of visit.
We got inoculated last week.
I have lived long enough to know that the only change that has any kind of reality is the change in my pocket. I keep track of that change wit…
While watching the incredible scenes from the U.S. Capitol this week, it was hard not to think about Josh. No, not Josh Hawley. Josh Williams.
Assembling to protest is our right under the First Amendment — it’s how we talk to each other as a nation.
I was too busy hunkering down and writing about plague and insurrection to conjure up anything new and semi-amusing this week. Here’s an updat…
My father had terminal lung cancer. He fought like a Spartan at Thermopylae, his body riddled with chemo and radiation, his stomach filled wit…
Leave it to Trump to cap off his catastrophic tenure by tripling down on the criminal behavior that got him impeached in the first place. It’s…
Sixty years ago this week, a new governor set North Carolina on a new course.
The older I get, the more I am turning into my father.
In uncertain times like these, in situations that test our mettle, I often ask myself this simple yet eternal question: What would Elvis do?
Episode 4: Other topics include whether politicians should be at the front of the line for vaccines and a new program in Florida that encourag…
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"Will a culture of accusation, threat and retribution make our nation better? How is that working out so far?"
The overwhelming economic concern for a majority of individuals is jobs. There are two elements to this concern: will there be enough jobs for…
2020 was the challenging year that just won’t go away, however much we wish it would, as many current issues over First Amendment freedoms flo…
It is not that I am colorblind; I just am color indifferent. Red and blue and yellow are all the same to me.
We assumed all along that the loser would top off his tenure by pardoning a motley crew of crooked politicians and lying felons. And he did so…
Civil rights legislation always has its genesis in humanitarian principles: Protecting the weak, advocating for the voiceless, providing oppor…
I know Rudolph’s little brother.
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