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The conspiracy between a corrupt set of bureaucracies (including the Justice Department, the IRS, and the intelligence community) and an equally corrupt and enabling elite media is astonishing. The …
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By Newt Gingrich
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5/31/23
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“Hey, Ted!” Walked back into my house from an errand and greeted a neighbor who was kindly being a handyman. Ted was on the deck and only vaguely heard me. Stepping back inside, he asked …
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BY JAN HUTTON, Columnist
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5/31/23
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This is part two of thoughts on the Republican gubernatorial race. Last week I evaluated Mark Robinson, still the prohibitive frontrunner for the GOP primary, even if the last few weeks’ …
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Alexander Jones, Columnist
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5/31/23
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The first Friday in June is Nation Donut Day — let us celebrate! The day is holier than you might suspect.
I know there are plenty of jokes about donuts and overweight cops. Homer Simpson …
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BY ANDREW TAYLOR-TROUTMAN, Columnist
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5/31/23
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A significant event came my way this week.
No, it wasn’t the lottery or last house payment or even a note from old girlfriend Katherine (Kitty) Litter saying she finally realized she …
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BY BOB WACHS, Columnist
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5/31/23
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With an election 18 months away, and the likelihood that it will be Biden vs. Trump a-g-a-i-n, my interest in the history of America’s presidents, inspired by a terrific high school history …
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5/24/23
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Culture shock doesn’t begin to describe what I felt walking into that 8th-grade classroom in the middle of February. I was the new kid, just moved from California to Raleigh.
It’s …
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BY BEN RAPPAPORT, News + Record Staff
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5/24/23
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It may be an old wives’ tale (as compared to what young wives would say), or maybe it’s an urban legend, or maybe it’s just not really so, but the old saying that “it takes …
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BY BOB WACHS, Columnist
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5/24/23
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More and more lately, it seems, events are transpiring which convince me that truly I must be a fish out of water.
Going along with those events is the vocabulary that goes along with them ... …
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BY BOB WACHS, Columnist
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5/18/23
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Congratulations to Bill Horner III! Join me in celebrating his career at the Chatham News + Record. In a little over four years since he became publisher and editor, this newspaper has garnered many …
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BY ANDREW TAYLOR-TROUTMAN, Columnist
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5/18/23
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Here I am, lying on my comfy couch, staring out the front windows at the trees, sunlight, crows swooping up and down amidst the dandelions. Chatham County doing what it does best, bursting with …
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BY JAN HUTTON, Columnist
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5/18/23
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How can any diverse group of people, including a community of faith, find common ground on abortion? North Carolina’s new “abortion bill” (Senate Bill 20) was passed strictly along …
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BY ANDREW TAYLOR-TROUTMAN, Columnist
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5/11/23
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I was born and raised in Florida. I still return periodically to visit my roots and tend to the grave sites of my ancestors.
My family’s history in Florida goes back to the 1800s. That may …
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BY DENNIS STREETS, Columnist
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5/11/23
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Every year I buy the new edition of the World Almanac and Book of Facts. I like to check to see what the book is telling the rest of the world about North Carolina.
This year’s Almanac had …
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BY D.G. MARTIN, Columnist
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5/11/23
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OK, ‘fessing up. To what? Nothing salacious; sorry. I’m just feeling proud of myself.
Well then, all the more reason to share. It really comes down to watching my fingers …
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JAN HUTTON, Columnist
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5/11/23
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During my young life on the planet, I’ve called several places “home.”
Born in Raleigh before it got too big for its britches.
Lived in Apex the first five …
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BY BOB WACHS, Columnist
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5/11/23
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I’m more than familiar with small town festivals.
My dad works for Southern Bank in Mount Olive, N.C., and we always would spend the last weekend in April attending the Pickle …
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BY TAYLOR HEEDEN, News + Record Staff
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5/10/23
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For years — I don’t remember how many — I’ve been hammering out columns for this newspaper. I do remember that day when my boss the editor — the late Alan Resch — …
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BY BOB WACHS, Columnist
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5/7/23
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It happened to me back in 1991 when Clarence Thomas was nominated for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Thomas, although African American and coming from a poor background, was known to be very …
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BY D.G. MARTIN, Columnist
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5/7/23
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Strange, strange, strange.
OK, out with it. What’s strange?
My unexpected learning curve, beginning with a golden oldie (the Beatles, the Stones?). No, no, this well-worn …
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By Jan Hutton
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5/7/23
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