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Prejudice makes us all worse off

Prejudice is morally wrong. It’s also immensely foolish, producing self-inflicted wounds for individuals, companies, and communities. If you refuse to hire certain workers because of their sex, race, or religion, you will end up with a less-productive workforce and a less-profitable enterprise. If you refuse to befriend people who are different from you in these...

John Hood
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Bug off and let people enjoy their food

Editor’s note: This opinion piece by Jon Sanders first appeared at American Institute for Economic Research. As the Decade of Forgetting lurches on, our self-appointed elites now no longer seem to know about food. For example, a July 20, 2022 headline from the BBC asked “Could grasshoppers really replace beef?”  The correct answer — “No” — was of...

Jon Sanders
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Can House Bill 951 keep winter from coming to North Carolina?

Winter is coming. I know it’s hard to fathom amid a hot, humid North Carolina summer, but it is. Across from our beautiful beaches, The Economist predicts “Europe’s Winter of Discontent.” Disastrous public policies that increase dependence on unreliable energy sources and hostile foreign regimes have put the free world, including all of us here in...

Amy Cooke
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Biden now claims ‘zero inflation’ and other outrageous stories

White House Spox Karine Jean-Pierre Refuses To Say If Biden Is Weaponizing DOJ, FBI Against Political Opponents Certainly, not the reassurance many of us were hoping for right now. A simple “no” seems like a more ideal answer. After 35 years missing, an Air Force captain mysteriously reappeared in the Bay Area I vaguely remember...

Ray Nothstine

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Conservatives have a lot to learn from the past

A review of “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism” by Matthew Continetti. A master at synthesizing information is one way to describe Matthew Continetti’s 100-year history of conservatism. In the weeds and details of the conservative movement is where his account shines. Overall, despite his joyous recollections of the glory days of mid-2000s neoconservatism, the account...

Ray Nothstine
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Is Cheri Beasley playing possum?

People connected to Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley are complaining to the national press that Democrat allies are not stepping up to the plate and spending outside money to lift her candidacy.  But is Beasley playing possum? According to Dictionary.com, to play possum is to:  To pretend to be dead, a trick used by...

Dallas Woodhouse