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Woke bail fund leads to murder and other outrageous stories
Canada’s Euthanasia Polices Under Scrutiny As Reports Surface Of Euthanizing A Man For “Hearing Loss” “Free” healthcare can have its drawbacks. California goes haywire! Electric car owners are told NOT to charge their vehicles because of heatwave – just days after announcing 2035 ban on gas cars No need for the last man or woman...
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How the Inflation Reduction Act fails
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), signed by President Biden, is now law. This act attempts to address growing concerns with U.S. inflation currently hovering around 8% to 9%; however, it does so in name alone without solving the underlying causes of inflation. The act’s approach addresses some of the sting of inflation for some...
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The blowback on student loan forgiveness
Even if one only counts Carolina Journal opinion submissions, there is tangible anger over President Biden’s student loan forgiveness order. The administration is receiving plenty of backlash on multiple fronts. Those include the graduates that worked and paid back loans on their own, but the more politically damaging group is the working class that never even went...
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Wrongheaded immigration policy highlights much needed common sense
2022 is the worst year on record yet for deaths of migrants at the border, with over 600 bodies recovered by CBP. It’s a significant humanitarian crisis. In response to the uptick in deaths and illegal crossings, governors in Texas and Arizona have started busing illegal immigrants directly to Washington D.C. and New York City to...
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False signals and recession — are recessions a natural occurrence in capitalism?
With two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth recorded for the first half of this year, most agree that our economy has slipped into recession. But few will agree on its cause. Given the Biden administration and others’ attempts to blame skyrocketing price inflation on multiple factors besides its true cause, opponents of a free-market economy will attempt...
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Break up to make up with parents
Although North Carolina continues to be one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, the number of students in our district-run public schools has been shrinking. Total enrollment in the 2021-22 school year was about 4% lower than a decade earlier, translating into roughly 60,000 fewer students. Districts enrolled 77% of all school-aged children in our state...
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Stein case presents questions that extend beyond 2024 N.C. election implications
It’s hard not to focus on the partisan political implications of N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s challenge of a state law against campaign lies. Political observers consider Stein the most likely Democratic nominee for governor in 2024. If he ever faced criminal charges under the disputed law, his gubernatorial bid would face at least some...
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Visiting a nuclear reactor changed my perspective on energy
There’s still a lot of controversy surrounding nuclear energy here in the United States. People often fail to realize that nuclear energy is a zero-emission, clean energy source. I recently had the opportunity to visit the Burlington Nuclear Engineering Laboratory to learn more about the production of nuclear energy, and it’s clear to me that,...
