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My Turn: America's evolving liberty
Opinion | Sunday, May 27, 2012 4:35 PM |
By Glenn Hudson
Is America really the land of the free? Does the Bill of Rights mean anything? Are all men truly created equal? Or is that just a noble ideal that some Americans cannot grasp? Consider three examples.
First, it was announced May 10, that former President George Bush did not consult with his advisors on his decision to go to war with Iraq. Then, the same day President Barack Obama a ...Read More
On Memorial Day, reflect and remember
Opinion | Sunday, May 27, 2012 4:27 PM |
Scripps Howard News Service
Unlike our other wars, the federal government asked nothing of the American public by way of sacrifice for the war in Iraq and the one still ongoing in Afghanistan. And there is alarmingly casual talk of a war with Iran ...Read More
Letters to the editor - Monday (5-28-2012)
Opinion | Monday, May 28, 2012 10:19 AM |
Pet waste DNA registration raises a howl of protest
Regarding the May 27 article “DNA sample from pet will ensure owner responsibility”:
I’m outraged! Where are the dogs’ constitutional rights? And a database called Poop Pint ...Read More
Editorial: Remember the fallen
Opinion | Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:05 PM |
We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.
We were young, they say. We have died; remember us.
— Archibald MacLeish
“The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak”
Memorial Day dawns tomorrow with the nation talking about the end game in Afgha ...Read More
Gerrie Blackwelder: Don't do it; suicide leaves so much pain
Opinion | Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:04 PM |
By Gerrie W. Blackwelder
Special to the Salisbury Post
A few months ago, Salisburian David Whisenant wrote a stirring admonition to those considering suicide. His words, heartfelt and simple, “Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Don’t do it” will echo in ...Read More
The Optimistic Futurist: Citizens make a difference in fight against child abuse
Opinion | Friday, May 25, 2012 7:32 PM |
By Francis Koster
www.TheOptimisticFuturist.com
As a futurist, I write about emerging threats, and the need for successful interventions to address them. In that spirit, today I bring good news about something bad.
The United States has begun to turn ...Read More
Rev. Olen Bruner: Where do we draw the line between church and state
Opinion | Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:05 PM |
By the Rev. Olen V. Bruner
Special to the Salisbury Post
On May 9, the 44th president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, shared his personal thoughts, which included 11 key words: “I think same-sex couples should be able to get marrie ...Read More
Letters to the editor - Saturday (5-26-2012)
Opinion | Friday, May 25, 2012 7:23 PM |
Thanks for helping deliver another successful food drive
Rowan County’s “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive collected 16,921 pounds of non-perishable food on Saturday, May 12. Thank you to all who donated. Also, thank you to carriers and volunteers w ...Read More
Sharon Randall: It's up to you now, grads
Opinion | Friday, May 25, 2012 7:29 PM |
By Sharon Randall
To the Class of 2012: Today, when you marched in here, you were not alone. You carried on your shoulders the hopes and dreams and love of a great many people: Your parents, grandparents, great-gran ...Read More
To the Class of 2012: Today, when you marched in here, you were not alone. You carried on your shoulders the hopes and dreams and love of a great many people: Your parents, grandparents, great-gran ...Read More
Food never in short supply at Pops at the Post
Opinion | Saturday, May 26, 2012 9:05 PM |
Food vendors are part of the festivities at Pops at the Post. Look for them this year on Fisher Street and in the back of the Post’s parking lot, adjacent to the Wrenn House parking lot.
This year’s vendors include:
• Mr. Cone will be serving H ...Read More
Letters to the editor - Friday (5-25-2012)
Opinion | Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:43 PM |
Teacher simply made a mistake
I am saddened by the position taken by many regarding Tanya Dixon-Neely and a student at North Rowan High School.
She stated that one could be arrested for “speaking” ill of the president when the reality is that on ...Read More
Dicy McCullough: Preacher can still turn up the heat
Opinion | Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:43 PM |
By Dicy McCullough
Depending upon experiences or background, the word “revival” can bring different visions or thoughts to mind. For those of us who grew up in the Bible belt, visions of a preacher “raising the roof,” with a red face and sweat rol ...Read More
Leonard Pitts: An Ameria like no other
Opinion | Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:44 PM |
By Leonard Pitts
I, too, sing America.
So wrote Langston Hughes, the unofficial poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, whose 65 years spanned the lynch mobs of the early 20th century and the race riots of the mid-1960s, intended a defi ...Read More
Letters to the editor - Thursday (5-24-2012)
Opinion | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:51 PM |
Try seeing this controversy from the teacher’s viewpoint
I’m a past student of Mrs. Tanya Dixon-Neely, and I’m shocked by the coverage about her situation at my alma mater, North Rowan High. It pains me that no one has even thought to punish the c ...Read More
Editorial: Taxpayers taken for a ride
Opinion | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:52 PM |
Tired of jostling lines to board overcrowded aircraft? Jammed overhead bins? Being wedged into the middle seat with the passenger in front of you reclining in your lap?
The taxpayers have a solution for that, but it involves flying to and from des ...Read More
Editorial: Test your First Amendment knowledge
Opinion | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:40 PM |
Readers have roundly — and rightly — lambasted a Rowan-Salisbury teacher who told a student he could be arrested for criticizing President Obama. But there’s a lot of misinformation about the First Amendment and free speech. See how you do on this ...Read More
Letters to the editor (5-23-2012)
Opinion | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:41 PM |
YouTube video’s popularity shows importance of rights
I would like to answer School Board Chairman Emerson’s question regarding “what does it say about our society when a less than ten-minute YouTube video gets more attention than our athletes and ...Read More
Cal Thomas: Classic fable holds economic lesson
Opinion | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:44 PM |
By Cal Thomas
In the Aesop Fable “The Grasshopper and the Ant,” there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other.
As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing and hopping and having an all-a ...Read More
Letters - Tuesday 5-22-2012
Opinion | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:35 PM |
Where do teachers get education?
I see that the Rowan-Salisbury School System is in the news. The issue is a debate in a classroom over the potential of bullies in the presidential race. Someone gave the “fact of the day” that Romney was ...Read More
Editorial: Teacher flunks free-speech test
Opinion | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:34 PM |
North Rowan High School teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely has rightfully been suspended from her job after forbidding a student to criticize President Obama — a fact brought to light after the student posted a video of it on YouTube.
“Video&rdquo ...Read More
D.G. Martin: Sir Walter, developers like same site
Opinion | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:44 AM |
What does a resort real estate sales brochure have to do with Sir Walter Raleigh and with the Lost Colony that disappeared from North Carolina’s coastland 425 years ago?
The colorful brochure that was delivered to my house last week promoted “A Re ...Read More
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