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Thoughts for Veterans Day
(Note: This piece was originally posted in 2018 under the title “Remembering World War One.” I’ve started reposting it every year because we need to remember the first world war,…
American Legion
organization of U.S. war veterans
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Thoughts for Veterans Day
(Note: This piece was originally posted in 2018. I’m reposting it because much of what I said then remains relevant and important today.) Just over one hundred years ago—on November…
Liberty
Thoughts for Veterans Day
(Note: This piece was originally posted in 2018. I’m reposting it because much of what I said then remains relevant and important today.) Just over one hundred years ago—on November…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Remembering World War I
Just over one hundred years ago—on November 11th, 1918—Germany signed the Armistice that brought World War I to an end. Propagandists’ high-flown rhetoric notwithstanding (“the war to end all wars,”…
Law & Public Safety
Leef’s latest Forbes column pans awful Appeals Court ruling
George Leef’s latest Forbes column highlights a particularly bad ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1925, a group of citizens in Bladensburg, Maryland wanted to honor…
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Ugliness Is in the Arrogance of the Beholder
The American Legion in Tryon recently decided to fix up their building, inside and out, and the organization borrowed $15,000 for the work. In choosing an exterior paint, they decided…
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Transparency funding? Just a matter of priorities, folks. What are yours?
As a follow up to Dan’s CJ report this morning on the proposed internet web portal to make state agency and local government available to taxpayers and decision makers and…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, August 27, 2014
• The latest Gallup Poll of North Carolina attitudes shows Democrats and Republicans in a near dead-heat in the “generic” vote, with Democrats holding a 42-41 lead. Democrats had a…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, August 25, 2014
• Outside groups have launched new ads attacking Republican U.S. Senate nominee Thom Tillis (Senate Majority PAC) and Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan (Crossroads GPS). The spots echo familiar themes. http://youtu.be/VOphgAp6l8w…
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“That’s a degree of crazy we shouldn’t allow.”
This would be unbelievable — but it’s California. After three years, the privately funded $60,000 monument, which is sponsored by the American Legion and would be placed on a sliver of land…
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But They Don’t
After being told they can no longer meet at the Chapel Hill/Carrboro YMCA because they won’t sign the Y’s policy about sexuality, the Boy Scouts have been welcomed by the…
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Commies
The Waynesville American Legion Post 47 posted an advert for all (public, parochial, military, and private) Haywood County high school students. They are invited to participate in an scholarship contest…