I took a first crack yesterday at Governor McRory's attack on higher education in North Carolina. Make no mistake - that is what it was....

Something to think about. You can't have democracy without elections. You can certainly have elections without democracy. There ar...

Dawn on January 30, 1942, found Admiral Giffen's Task Force 18 on its way back to Espiritu Santo. Their mission had not been completed. ...

OK, that isn't exactly what Governor McRory said to a national audience yesterday, but it isn't far off. Gender Studies (one might s...

The first six months of the war in the Pacific were fought mostly with ships, planes and men already in the Pacific when Pearl Harbor was a...

Boeing's vaunted new Dreamliner aircraft have all been grounded, with no prospects for flying again until its battery problems are solve...

Today's County Compass reports a brouhaha resulting from a request by representatives of Cherry Point MCAS to appear before a joint sess...

The good news is that the United States senate adopted some reformed procedures to tackle grid lock. The bad news is that the changes wer...