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This is a must watch...and forward to your contacts
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Alternatives to Twitter, Facebook et. al. are springing up everywhere
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Bill Moore looks at the potential fallout from the systemic failure in the 2020 election
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George Schryer reflects on the cold war
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Steven Rader compares the Moldovan Twitter Revolution to the storming of the Capitol this week.
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Twitter has deleted President Trump's account. He should have left Twitter long ago
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Glenn Greenwald draws profound connection between 9-11 and what happend at the Capitol this week
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The action in Congress on January 6 may very well have doomed the GOP
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The real cause of the anger that led to the violence is a Illegitimate election and the system's failure to adjudicate the complaints
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Our nation is facing a crisis. This article summarizes the causes well.
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Are we living in the "End Times"?, Billy Graham's 1981 book is prophetic
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It appears that both Democrats will win in Georgia, subject to a recount, and thus control both houses of Congress
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Becki Gray, VP of the John Locke Foundation assesses the upcoming legislative session
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We're back and here's the "back story"
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In my opinion truer words have seldom been spoken on the subject of what needs to be done to improve our schools.
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When your Social Studies teacher taught you that "the Constitution was written to protect our rights…" did it ever occur to you to wonder from whom we would need to be protected?
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The State Board of Elections and all county boards of election are controlled, by law, by a majority of members of the same party as the Governor.
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Every person in Beaufort County (or North Carolina for that matter) who is interested in public education should have been at the Conservative Republicans Club Thursday (7-10-14) night.
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I still remember my first job. It was as a "carry-out" boy at a local grocery store. We took the customer's groceries to their car for them. Somewhat like the Piggly Wiggly still does.
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Tom Campbell, of NC Spin recently suggest that "Let's take teacher pay off the table." No he was not suggesting that the issue of teacher pay be ignored, but quite the opposite...that it be "settled" once and for all.
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From the standards grows an entire industry that seeks to make money "training" educators how to get students to do at least well enough on those tests.
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Politicians just do not know how to teach reading. The sooner they learn that, the better everyone will be.
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The Guilford County Board of Education has voted unanimously to file a lawsuit against the State of North Carolina contesting the new law that replaces teacher tenure with term contracts plus a salary bonus.
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There are a lot of upset teachers in North Carolina these days, or so it seems, from media reports. The target of their ire is the Republican-led Legislature.
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In an article posted elsewhere on this site N. C. GOP Chairman Claude Pope extols some renegade Republicans in Haywood County to adhere to "Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment: Thou shall not speak ill of any fellow Republican." I feel compelled to respectfully dissent.
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The N. C. Board of Elections (SBOE) is making a mockery of the State's motto: Esse quam videri--To be, rather than to seem.
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It should be noted before going any further that the law on teacher tenure was changed by the Legislature to eliminate "career status" or tenure.
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This commentary will make more sense if you review this article and particularly if you watch the video of Dr. Phipps' report to the Beaufort County Board of Education at its November meeting.
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Partly as a result of these experiences I read with interest a recent article the The Chronicle Of Higher Education (arguably the most read publication related to higher education news).
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Jesse Saffron, a staffer at the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy think tank has a well reasoned and lucid piece in the Carolina Journal on the issue of extra pay for teachers with graduate degrees.
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I have a challenge for you. Recall the best teacher you ever had. Now think about what characteristics that teacher had and compare it to the other teachers you can remember whom you would never have selected as "best." Chances are you can't even remember those who did not make your cut.
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Politicians who run for office always look for issues they thin will get them votes. I suspect if you could accurately assess it, the high school "dropout" rate might well be one of the top issues non-incumbents have chosen to run "against" over the last half century or so.
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Recently, at the new Wal-Mart in Greenville this reporter observed an interesting situation. I approached a parking space I observed a lady who was in obvious distress.
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The other day Thomas Edsall of the New York Times reported that a terrible thing has happened. Since the Voting Rights Act passed, the number of Black state legislators has grown from fewer than 5 to 313 - but at the same time, Black political power has diminished.
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