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When does a prayer become a problem?

May 21, 2013

On Monday evening at the Rowan County Administration Building, commissioner Craig Pierce began his board’s meeting in the usual way – head bowed and with an invitation: “Let us pray.” It’s how commissioners have led most every meeting, and it’s prompted a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three county residents.

Improving ‘one too many’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch | May 21, 2013

From an editorial Monday in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Observer Forum: Letters to the editor

May 21, 2013

It is not yet clear where the IRS scandal will lead. But after the revelation that senior White House officials knew about the incipient affair well before previously claimed, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has lost all credibility.

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Superman’s staying power

By Larry Tye | Los Angeles Times | May 21, 2013

My nomination for American hero of the 20th century is someone who lived half his life in disguise and the other half as the world’s most recognizable man. He appeared on more radio broadcasts than Ellery Queen and in more movies than Marlon Brando, who once played his father. He helped give America the backbone to wage war against the Nazis, the Depression and the Red Menace. He remains an intimate to kids from Boston to Belgrade and has adult devotees who, like Talmudic scholars, parse his every utterance.

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Bruton Smith. Darth Bubba?

Wing nuts can use fewer facts, more humility

By Cass R. Sunstein | Bloomberg View | May 21, 2013

There is no standard definition of the all-important term “wing nut,” so let’s provide one. A wing nut is someone who has a dogmatic commitment to an extreme political view (“wing”) that is false and at least a bit crazy (“nut”).

Jobs are out there – for graduates who have the right skills

By Clifton Vann IV | Special to the Observer | May 21, 2013

Last year, my company spent more than $100,000 with headhunters, trying to find talent to fill the gaps we have in employment. Sadly enough, the vast majority of the people we found did not come from North Carolina.

Nugent brothers disagree on gun control

By Jeffrey Nugent | Special To The Washington Post | May 21, 2013

I’m a member of the National Rifle Association and a former Army officer with assignments in the military police, artillery, and operations research and intelligence at the Pentagon.

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