Unique to North America ... elements such as the white stripes and stars on the American flag, the symbol of America, signifying national pride and bravery. By getting a bald eagle tattoo ...

These documents put North Carolina at the beginning of the American Independence movement as one of the original colonies. The flag is as much a cultural phenomenon today as it is a symbol.

And so we should respond in kind to this symbol. In other words, we should give the Pride flag all of the respect that the left shows the American flag. Let's just put it that way.

In 1997, more than two centuries after Betsy Ross is said to have sewn the first American flag, Ben Haith, founder of the ...