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North Carolina public universities are more than just institutions of higher learning. They are each small cities of young adults with Olympic-level athletic franchises, massive dining and fitness clubs, and special interest hobby communities supported by extensive human and physical infrastructure. To fund the many perks and benefits of university life, schools charge extra fees beyond tuition and room and board. In the University of North Carolina system, students at each of the 16 member institutions pay, on average, more than $2,500 annually in mandatory fees. Mandatory student fees are slowly going up at North Carolina public universities, making attendance...

It’s the question I’ve heard now for many years, specifically from evangelical Christians. “Since the world is only getting worse, why bother fighting the culture wars? What’s the use? What’s the point? Isn’t it better for us simply to share our faith and prepare for the return of Jesus?” To be sure, if I knew for a fact that Jesus was coming back in a week, I would not spend that week writing articles about transgender activism. Or trying to change hearts about abortion. In fact, I would not spend that week teaching a class in our ministry school. Or...

All the remaining Democrat contenders going into Super Tuesday favor free college tuition. Some favor 4 years for students to pursue their bliss, debt free, while others propose (initially) a more moderate 2 years. A couple of whack jobs want to eliminate existing student debt as well.Reflect on that as you peruse this story from The Oklahoman reporting on an ongoing student protest at Oklahoma University: Students said they will be sitting at Evans Hall until their demands are met. The Black Emergency Response Team (BERT) said many members would go on a hunger strike.“To the upper administration: there will...

I don’t know if Americans know what is going on all over Europe but they NEED to. If liberals want to keep bringing Muslim migrants into this country, we would end up exactly like Europe — overrun with fear. Muslims should have their own right and religious freedom yes but radical Islam has no place in 2020! We need to wake up and quit just standing there and watching! Radical Muslims expect preferential treatment because they look at others as inferior infidels. At the moment as the world is only talking about Coronavirus, Greece is facing a terror on its...

Pastor Martin noted that the Republican Party has done more outreach to the black community in Michigan than the Democratic Party has. This Democratic apathy — combined with the party’s continued migration to the Far Left — has Martin concerned that there’s no room for centrist Democrats like him in the party anymore. “I am a moderate Democrat, but I do not support abortion. I do not support same-sex marriage,” Pastor Martin said, according to the Detroit Free Press. “I have people in my congregation who ask us, ‘How do we preach one thing on Sunday, but then campaign for...

A person in San Antonio, Texas, who had previously tested negative twice for the coronavirus, and was released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is now back in quarantine after a subsequent test came back positive. The individual, who was evacuated from Wuhan, China, to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio on a flight chartered by the State Department was released from the Texas Center for Infectious Disease, according to San Antonio's Mayor.

Two months after the outbreak of the coronavirus, #TrumpVirus began trending on Twitter. Why? Because it’s the only chance that the Democrats have of winning back the White House in 2020.

After the worst week on Wall Street since 2008, investors are waking up to the all-too-familiar news of more coronavirus cases worldwide, and falling global stocks. The second U.S. death from the virus was reported on Sunday. Asian and European stocks started Monday positively — as central banks around the world sparked hopes of interest-rate cuts. But they moved into the red after an OECD report warned that the virus economic impact was “severe” and putting “the world economy at risk.” U.S. futures followed suit on a volatile morning. → More >>>

Upstart socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her name in part with a signature policy package dubbed the “Green New Deal.” With an initial draft promising everything from free healthcare for all to eliminating cow farts, the version that Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey eventually introduced was only slightly less ridiculous. Don't forget, this resolution was co-sponsored by 2020 front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders. He might regret that now: A new study just found that the “Green New Deal” would cost families in several swing states dearly. The report from the fiscally conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute analyzed 11 different states and...

"Men ought always to pray" (Luke 18:1, KJV). Prayer should never be limited to certain times, places, or circumstances. As a child I was taught to pray with my head bowed, eyes closed, and hands folded. Even as a young man I thought that was the only acceptable mode of prayer. In my seminary days I sang in a quartet that traveled to various churches throughout the United States. The first time I traveled with them we had a prayer meeting in the car, and the driver prayed with his eyes open. All of us were glad he did, but...

Researchers who have examined the genomes of two coronavirus infections in Washington state said the similarities between the cases suggest that the virus may have been spreading in the state for weeks. Washington had the U.S.’ first confirmed case of coronavirus, announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Jan. 20. Based on an analysis of the virus’s genetic sequence, another case that surfaced in the state and was announced Friday probably was descended from that first case. The two people live in the same county but are not known to have had contact with one another, and...

The life of Belisarius, the greatest military commander of the Roman Empire, came to a close in early March AD 565. Considering how much detail we have of his middle life and military career thanks to his secretary, the historian Procopius of Caesarea, we possess comparatively very little information about his final days. The chronicler John Malalas, writing perhaps 10 years after Belisarius's death, provides some of the only reliable notices of the hero's last acts, beginning with the plot against Justinian which was hatched in AD 562 and in which Belisarius was implicated as a co-conspirator. Malalas offers the...

Every conservative knows that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, in addition to being a sanctimonious stealth-socialist and the bane of Mike Bloomberg's existence, is a nominal Native American. That's a polite way of saying that, for years, she falsely claimed not only to have Native American ancestry, but to be an “American Indian.” She made those phony claims, moreover, at times and in circumstances when they could potentially bring her personal advantage: when she was looking for work as a high-priced corporate legal consultant, for example, or when she was looking to advance her career as an Ivy League professor. Needless...

Jack Welch was a railroad conductor’s son who rose to chairman and CEO of General Electric.During the 20 years he led the conglomerate, its market value grew from $12 billion to $410 billion.Fortune magazine once called him “manager of the century,” but he also was known as “Neutron Jack” for slashing tens of thousands of jobs.  Jack Welch, a railroad conductor’s son who became chairman and CEO of General Electric and led it for two decades, growing its market value from $12 billion to $410 billion, has died. He was 84.His death was announced Monday by his wife, Suzy. With...

Former Saturday Night Live writer and host John Mulaney made a joke Saturday on NBC, that compared President Donald Trump to Julius Caesar “a powerful maniac” who was assassinated by a group of senators. Mulaney said, “It is a Leap Year, as I said. Leap Year began in 45 B.C. under Julius Caesar. This is true, he started the Leap Year in order to correct the calendar, and we still do it to this day.

Open borders advocate and Trump-hater Sean Buchanan was killed by an illegal alien that had taken advantage of the open borders that Buchanan championed. I feel no sorrow for him, although I have much sympathy for his wife and 5 children. Criminal illegal alien Ramirez Valiente was driving drunk, which his friends say he often does because he is a raging alcoholic, when he crossed into Buchanan’s lane and hit his motorcycle, killing him. Valiente was driving with a suspended license for previous infractions. Ironically, he who lives by the illegal alien died by the illegal alien.

More than 13,000 migrants have gathered on the Turkish side of a river which separates them from Greece Police were firing tear gas at crowds who were trying to reach the EU, while one child drowned in a dinghy Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan threw open the border in order to pressure Europe over Syria conflict.

A SHOT OF WHISKEY' - In the old west a .45 cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents, so did a glass of whiskey. If a cowhand was low on cash he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a drink. This became known as a "shot" of whiskey. BUYING THE FARM - This is synonymous with dying. During WW1 soldiers were given life insurance policies worth $5,000. This was about the price of an average farm so if you died you "bought the farm" for your survivors. IRON CLAD CONTRACT - This came about from the...

Who better to have as president during the coronavirus epidemic but a renowned germaphobe, the “build-the-wall” guy who refuses to kowtow to China? It’s a unique set of characteristics showing that President Trump understood early the need for decisive measures such as travel restrictions on China, which he imposed in January. Yet, for that sensible decision — in defiance of the World Health Organization — he was criticized by Democrats such as Joe Biden as xenophobic, and by China as racist. “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia — hysterical xenophobia — and fearmongering,” said...

The North Carolina primary election is coming up, so The Daily Tar Heel is breaking down every office on the ballot from president to county commissioner. Here we broke down who the Republican candidates are for lieutenant governor. Nine candidates will be on the ballot for the Republican lieutenant governor primary on March 3. In November, the winner of the Republican race will face off against the victor of the six candidates running for the Democratic nomination.