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Why progressive North Carolinians will march on Raleigh Feb. 14th - and why...
2014's Moral March on Raleigh Saturday morning, February 14th, will witness the 9th annual Moral March on Raleigh and People's Assembly, organized as always by North Carolina's remarkable chapter of...
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Thom Tillis: Kochs' New Postulate
Left: Robert Heinrich Herbert Koch, father of modern bacteriology, discoverer of the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, and exponent of Koch's Postulates. Right: David Hamilton...
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Marriage equality: One of these things is not like the other....
Left: a 2013 New Yorker cover touchingly celebrates legal victories in the struggle for marriage equality. Right: In Mobile Alabama today, a couple waits as the county probate court remains closed for...
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Fusion Power: Throngs march on North Carolina's capitol for justice, equality...
Unfortunately, some are more equal than others. A black child born in North Carolina today is nearly three times more likely to die in infancy than is a white child. This disparity in infant mortality...
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Wealthy, vindictive, Republican UNC Board of Governors silences law school's...
Because in the right-to-work paradise of North Carolina no child goes to bed hungry or without electricity...right? I mean, that's right, isn't it? In a move that surprised no one, last week a working...
View ArticleBREAKING: Univ. of North Carolina Board of Governors officially kills Chapel...
For background on this story see the previous diary, Wealthy, vindictive, Republican UNC Board of Governors silences law school's Poverty Center.In a meeting barred to protestors, the...
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Sharia law: North Carolina Republicans empower magistrates to refuse to marry...
Not on Magistrate Smith's watch, you don't.This is the first in a series of articles exploring how post-legalization anti-marriage equality bills, currently working their way through state...
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Onward, Christian Soldiers: bad 'sincerely held religious objection' laws...
This is the second in a series of articles exploring how post-legalization anti-marriage equality bills, currently working their way through state legislatures, threaten to trivialize the principle of...
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NC is the New Crazy, Volume I. (What your state legislator is trying to pull...
Don't you believe it for a minute, kid. Keep your eye on him.Ever since the 2010 election ushered in Republican super-majorities to both North Carolina's state Senate and its House of Representatives...
View Article"A letter to Christians in Indiana, from Jesus"
These are dark, difficult times in which to be a follower of Jesus.Not because, as in some times past, we are persecuted by Pharisees, or by Roman emperors, or by those who would suppress heresy, or by...
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NC is the New Crazy (Vol. II): God, guns and glory edition
Because why should Texas get all the crazy?Ever since the 2010 election ushered in Republican super-majorities to both North Carolina's state Senate and its House of Representatives (collectively, the...
View Article'Religious freedom' restorers running for cover in North Carolina [UPDATED]
Shocked and awed by the persecution their brethren in Indiana and now Arkansas are suffering, North Carolina's GOP bigots politicians are suddenly running screaming for the exits pretending they've...
View ArticleNo, Dr. Turley: a same-sex wedding cake is not the same as a "Nazi cake"
In a Washington Post op-ed piece today containing a teaspoon of thoughtful reflection and a heaping cup of drooling stupidity, Jonathan Turley (the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George...
View ArticleThe meditation of Thomas Traherne
From Centuries of Meditation by the obscure country chaplain, Thomas Traherne (born 1636; died of smallpox, 1674). Happy Spring, y'all...or Passover, or Easter, or even just(!) 'today.'You never enjoy...
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Warren Buffett: America's leading predatory home lender?
Say it ain't so, Warren. Billionaire Warren Buffett, the 'Oracle from Omaha' is the CEO, president, and largest shareholder of the Berkshire Hathaway holding company. He is also frequently regarded as...
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Who REALLY stands with Rand? Moneybomb data leak reveals awkward demographic...
Some of the very most interesting political leaks aren't the illegal acts of crusading disaffected insiders. Rather, they're simple boneheaded misjudgements, made in haste and repented at long leisure...
View Article'Moral Mondays' return to Raleigh, NC - Now with extra civil disobedience!
This just in, via email from Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, President of the NC NAACP:I invite all Moral Monday Arrestees, HKonJ Partners, NC NAACP members, and supporters of the Forward Together Moral...
View Article"This is OUR Selma." Will civil rights activists stand with North Carolina on...
In a teleconference with supporters last week, North Carolina NAACP president Rev. Dr. William J. Barber (whom our own Denise Oliver Velez has called "a fiery prophet for social justice") previewed...
View ArticleWarren Buffett on predatory lending allegations: "No apologies whatsoever"
If any multi-billionaire can be said to be respected by progressives, it would probably be Warren Buffett. Which is why a recent exposé published by the Seattle Times and the Center For Public...
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UPDATED: Board of Elections data reveal voter registration irregularities...
NC's Governor Pat McCrory (right) and junior U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (left)(See the Update at the end of this article for links to fast-breaking developments in the McCrory Affair)Exclusive to Daily...
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