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I shudder to imagine how Aunt Marie (God rest her soul) would react to today’s explosion of expectations for tipping.

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Every year in late spring, parents of college students all over America travel to university campuses with stylish IKEA storage bags or (in our case) cardboard boxes that once held bulk orders of toilet paper and tortilla chips. When the parents arrive, they joyfully greet their academically…

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Does North Carolina’s governance system for public schools need a radical overhaul? That’s what some state lawmakers are proposing. Before explaining what they have in mind, I ought to remind you how our current system works.

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Civil War is nothing new in Sudan. Since the mid 1950s, the country has enjoyed less than 20 years of peace and that hasn’t been consecutive. But the current civil war in Sudan is qualitatively different from past insurgencies.

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My brother, the former Babe Ruth Leaguer, remains deeply skeptical of Major League Baseball’s newly instituted pitch clock.

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Put your hands together for gun reform activist Ashbey Beasley, an anguished mom who showed up uninvited on Fox News the other day. She stormed within camera range and raged common sense to the viewers who’d probably tuned in for the usual brain-dead propaganda.

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March Madness certainly kept up its reputation! Madness! I will say the Florida Atlantic and San Diego State game was most disappointing to me. But, as usual, the Coach handled the loss so well. They say the rule was followed, but I question how you can give the credit when the game was fini…

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Right now, the land echoes with songs such as “Power in the Blood” and “Because He Lives,” but past performance assures me that the ditty waiting in the wings is (apologies to Alice Cooper) “God’s Out For Summer.”

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Regardless of how bitter the immigration argument — and the debate routinely sinks to new hostility lows — everyone should agree that open borders must not be allowed to disrupt public education.

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The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin embraced a philosophy that perfectly captures the official Catholic position on human value: the “consist- ent ethic of life,” more common- ly known as the “seamless garment.”

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Along with identifying as “Swifties,” ignoring the reported Chinese threat of bad dancing posed by TikTok, and pretending that plant-based meat is actually edible, many young people in America are engaging in another fascinating trend — not driving.

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Four Council members for the City of Monroe voted on Tuesday to spend about a half-million dollars of taxpayer money with nothing tangible to show for it. The money is severance pay for two employees —City Manager Brian Borne and City Attorney S. Mujeeh Shah-Khan. Borne had been working for …