Growing up undercover Persian is one of the most surprising things for people after getting to know me. I was raised Persian since around five-years-old. My step-father is from Iran and married my mother. Daily, I experienced the Persian Iranian culture through the food, language, music, holidays, and people. It blended in well with my life as...
The rewriting of history is reaching new and absurd levels if World War II can be blamed on the Allies and not the Axis powers.
Unrest. Distrust. Despair. These words characterize just a few of the many struggles the past 12 months have delivered. Thomas Paine’s words could’ve easily been written today and rung just as true: “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Last week, on April 12, we honored the 245th anniversary of the signing of the Halifax Resolves....
The United States was founded on the principle that government exists to protect the natural rights of the governed, including, especially, the natural right to liberty. The Declaration of Independence says so explicitly. The Constitution — signed 233 years ago today — is clearly an attempt to give practical expression to that principle. The Constitution...
The N.C. General Assembly is scheduled to return for the 2018 short legislative session on Wednesday, May 16. There’s speculation on what they will do and just how short the short session will be. Analysts and lobbyists are asking where they will go and what it will mean beyond the summer of 2018. The best answer...
Freedom of the press and the freedom to operate in a free and open market is critical to maintaining the ideals of liberty and democracy. Those points are unassailable. Going further, snarky, mean-spirited and even physically threatening attacks on credible journalists must stop. Curbing or regulating the Fourth Estate unsettles an indispensable pilar, the failure...
My oldest daughter is a single mom to three and a successful engineer in a top company. She understands the power of education and is fighting for the best opportunities for her children. My son and his wife, parents to my other two grandchildren, are conservationists, and we argue about the appropriate level of government intervention to protect the environment. I was...
Principles that propelled this nation to greatness will succeed again in the future.
We need to learn the history behind our nation's liberty if we wish to preserve that liberty in the future.
As the NC Senate debated and tentatively passed its bloated 2003-05 budget, one lawmaker tossed out an unintentionally funny laugh line. If only this were a laughing matter.
