On January 7, 2015, two deranged al-Qaeda terrorists walked into the headquarters of the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo in Paris and murdered 12 people.

Our illustrious briber-in-chief is offering to send Medicare recipients a $90 check to help offset the cost of higher premiums.

Homeownership is fraught with perils from the get-go.

Homeownership is fraught with perils from the get-go.

How often have you been scrolling through a Newsfeed and seen ad after ad for the same thing with slight changes?

Homeownership is fraught with perils from the get-go.

Introduction  How often and how recently have you been corrected for calling our country a democracy, only to be told it is a republic? What truth lies in either assertion? Are we one, the other, or ...

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OATHS OF OFFICE ARE NOT A NEW development in the milieu of civil government or other offices of public trust.

OATHS OF OFFICE ARE NOT A NEW development in the milieu of civil government or other offices of public trust.

I WEAR MY WOKENESS AS A badge of honor.

In retaliation for the death of 65 Americans in Nepal, President Trump has ordered a 100% import tariff on Nepalese goods.

The predicted cooler fall temperatures won’t chill the NC House District 74 election; it is heating up.

When you notice the smallpox vaccine scar on your arm, do you ever think about the miracle of modern medicine that saves hundreds of thousands of lives from infectious diseases every year?

He can’t keep his hands off of H2O.

Fearing they will lose their own judicial livelihoods, six Supreme Court justices continue to strengthen the executive branch bulwark behind which they hide.

When is the last time you heard our pedophile President boast about the American military being the world’s most lethal fighting force?

Who remembers the anti-drug public service announcements (PSAs) of the 1980s where a frying egg represented your brain on drugs?

ARE WE A GROUP OF INDEPENDENT STATES established under and united by an agreement of co-terminous sovereignty existing at the intersection of federal and state authority? Are we a democracy or a repub...

Wayne Turner weighs in on the use of AI in creative pursuits.

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“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

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THE “COCKPIT” WAS THE NAME of a meeting room of the King’s Privy Council in 18th-century London.

I just got rejected by some of the most prestigious universities’ history programs in the U.S.

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In a humiliating microcosmic example of why Trump’s policies are misguided and adrift, the guided missile destroyer USS Benfold was adrift without power in the South China Sea for four days.

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As creation myths go, the one in J.R.R.

Mitch McConnell was dead, to begin with.

Have you ever had one of those days when writing, and your ideas inexplicably take you somewhere you didn’t expect?

If all politics are local, we have a doozie of a race here in North Carolina House District 74.

Wry Banter reveals his feminine side as he recounts his first encounter with unrequited love.

First in a series of essays on how to save ourselves from divisive politics and, in the process, reclaim our country.

A meditation and lament Inspired by @michelleteheux

In my last post, I took readers on a mind-bending journey through the tortured logic of how our president arrived at the erroneous conclusion that he can tell his department heads to ignore the consti...

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