Charlotte is at it again with its latest attempt to sow chaos into North Carolina politics. The effort should fall on deaf ears. In other words, don’t take the bait. Proponents of the city’s new anti-discrimination ordinance have not shown there is a prevailing reason for it in the…
The General Assembly convened Jan. 13 and has met for well over 100 days. More than 1,700 bills have been filed; bills on election reform, appropriating federal COVID money, energy modernization, medical marijuana, sports betting, constitutional amendments, education reforms, health care advancements, regulatory reforms, unemployment benefits, confirmations, and appointments…
The extent to which the public-school establishment venerates John Dewey, purveyor of some of the most noxious ideas of the past century, is the extent to which it is destined to fail at its appointed task.
One of the greatest honors of working in the conservative movement is the opportunity, to cultivate, mentor, and encourage the next generation of conservative public policy intellectuals and conservative warriors. Conservatives who worry about the future of our movement, our culture, and our country, should take note. There are already…
America has always been more religiously devout than other Western democracies. But now, like them, it has begun to secularize rapidly. And, as religion has declined, political ideology has intensified, society has fragmented, and cultural common ground has disintegrated. As a result, politics is increasingly divisive and existentially fraught. For…
Some on the left are trying to tie the Second Amendment to racism, yet it's gun control laws that are the true culprit.
One time, during high school in Western Pennsylvania, about six of us got in a car and drove across the border to Wheeling, West Virginia, where the drinking age was still 18. Just one of us was actually 18, but it didn’t matter. It was 1981,…
North Carolina began the decade with too many consumers chasing too few housing units. Despite recent construction, we aren’t adding enough housing stock.
Campaign finance documents released this week show that Democrat state Senate candidate JD Wooten was forced to pay $10,000 to Republicans in a lawsuit originally filed by Wooten himself. During his campaign for State Senate District 24 in 2020, Republican Amy Galey defeated Wooten 53-47 after Sen. Rick Gunn, R-Alamance,…
Politicians responding quickly to a crisis can enact policies with unintended consequences.
