The N.C. Supreme Court will not speed up the timetable for a lawsuit challenging state restrictions on felon voting. An order issued Monday rejected a request for a shortened timeline in the case. Still up for debate is a separate request to extend the case’s current briefing deadlines.
The social justice protest arm of the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), “Organize 2020,” recently sent out an email inviting those “committed to education justice” to join a new coalition aimed at fighting for topics that parents have pushed back on at recent school board meetings — namely Critical Race Theory and saving “banned” books....
Protestors gathered in some of N.C.’s larger cities over the weekend to voice their opposition to Friday’s 6-3 decision in which the court upheld a law in Mississippi that prohibited the abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with a 5-4 majority agreeing further to overturn the Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey precedents guaranteeing women...
On June 10, news broke that that starting in July unaccompanied children (UACs) from the southern border would be transported to and housed at Greensboro’s American Hebrew Academy. Now, North Carolina’s Republican congressional delegation has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)...
The North Carolina House recently voted 78-31 in favor of a resolution urging Congress to oppose a proposed Securities and Exchange rule that could potentially hurt small farms.. Lawmakers say the rule would require small farms to report their greenhouse gas emissions, something they are not equipped to do.
Soaring prices. Social unrest. A resurgent Russia. A military withdrawal followed by the collapse of a pro-American regime in Asia. A feckless and unpopular Democratic president. Today’s parallels to the 1970s are obvious, ominous, and oft-observed. But we’re not quite there yet — and it isn’t just because skinny jeans continue to outsell bell bottoms....
It’s official, the Supreme Court of the United States has officially overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ending the nationwide constitutional right to an abortion after more than 50 years. The decision is historic in more ways than one, as in the lead up there was an unprecedented leak of an internal draft, threatening the...
Father’s Day was this past Sunday. Many people spent time with their fathers or even post photos celebrating the men in their life on social media. Still, more than ever, there is an epidemic of children living without a solid fatherly influence. Today 1 in 4 children in America live without any kind of father...
Where Keith Olbermann channels past segregationist governors. What a clown.
The Federal Reserve announced an increase in interest rates Wednesday, the largest increase in a single meeting in nearly 30 years. The Biden Administration is blaming Putin and says inflation is global. Economists tell a different story.
Four candidates from North Carolina seeking U.S. House seats recently received letters from the Federal Election Commission warning them to correct errors with their campaign finance reports or face possible consequences.
At least two N.C. television stations have pulled a Republican campaign ad targeting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley. Beasley supporters complained the ad contained false statements, according to a CBS News report. The ad focused on three cases Beasley heard during her time as chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court. Two of the three cases mentioned in the ad cite reporting from Carolina Journal. Only the third case, relying on a citation from a different media outlet, prompted the Beasley team’s complaint.
Longtime N.C. Rep. Grier Martin, D-Wake is resigning from office effective July 8. The announcement was made during Thursday’s House session. According to WRAL, he is leaving to take a job with the Pentagon. A call to Grier's office to confirm was not returned by time of this article's publication.
Conventional wisdom is that the upcoming midterms will be a wave election in favor of Republicans, potentially rivaling the GOP’s success in 2010. But is it in the cards for Republicans to retake a supermajority in the North Carolina General Assembly? Republicans need 72 seats in the House and 30 in the Senate to secure...
Marie Miller, attorney at the Institute for Justice, explains how the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Carson v. Makin, a case from Maine, could affect North Carolina’s lawsuit challenging the Opportunity Scholarship Program. Miller represents parents defending OSP. She argued on their behalf during a June 8 hearing at the N.C. Court of Appeals.
On the 50th anniversary of the infamous Watergate break-in, Carolina Journal revisits Raleigh attorney Eugene Boyce's recollections of the U.S. Senate investigation into the scandal. Boyce delivered these remarks on Sept. 26, 2011, in a presentation for the John Locke Foundation's Shaftesbury Society.
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses the week’s major developments at the N.C. General Assembly. King offered these comments during the June 17, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses a bill in Congress to boost police protection for families of U.S. Supreme Court justices. Kokai offered these comments during the June 17, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses N.C. television stations’ decision to remove an ad linked to the state’s 2022 U.S. Senate race. Kokai offered these comments during the June 10, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, which overturned the Roe v. Wade abortion precedent. King offered these comments during the June 24, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Father’s Day was this past Sunday. Many people spent time with their fathers or even post photos celebrating the men in their life on social media. Still, more than ever, there is an epidemic of children living without a solid fatherly influence. Today 1 in 4 children in America live without any kind of father...
The ironic part of the poverty industry clamoring for more government is that the federal government itself is likely the biggest force against the poor.
The American civil rights movement often called the second American Revolution, confronted ingrained prejudices and the idea that some are essentially destined to be serfs.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the New York Times’ column warning about America’s “free-speech problem.” Kokai offered these comments during the March 25, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Canadian professor, author, and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson on Thursday offered a non-political and largely academic lecture on the psychology of beauty, dreams, and purpose. The reaction from city officials and activists to the address at the Durham Performing Arts Center was night-and-day from the one leading up to his appearance four years earlier. It...
As the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine continues to escalate, North Carolina’s local Ukrainian population is rallying to bring attention to the suffering of people in their homeland and to gather supplies to help them. Donna Goldstein, co-president of the Ukrainian Association of North Carolina, finds herself at the forefront of these efforts. Goldstein has...
The fourth estate, journalism, is racing to receivership unless we can rescue it from its rapacious self. The hubris hasn’t always been this bad, this blatant, or this biased, yet it worsens daily. In the town I grew up in, Nashville, Tennessee, there were two newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s, one for the morning,...
One of the goals within our cultural wars is to push Christmas aside, to make even more room for divisive politicized agendas that tear us apart.