The left’s forced march into its aggressive green agenda has left devastation in its wake in states across the country, but that hasn’t stopped Gov. Roy Cooper from quietly colluding with the elite left to force the agenda on North Carolinians. Headlines tell the story that politicians and bureaucrats won’t. A Politico headline about California...
Forty-one years ago, under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan, the National Commission on Excellence in Education found “a nation at risk.” If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we...
North Carolinians deserve clean, reliable power at the lowest cost to ratepayers. Prioritizing reliability and cost while reducing emissions without mandating resources — as the North Carolina legislature did with 2021’s HB 951 — will stabilize our grid at the lowest cost and eventually minimize blackouts like we saw last Christmas Eve. A curious column...
¿Recuerdas los viejos comerciales de Mastercard? Vuelo de Raleigh a Las Vegas: $700 Boletos para Rod Stewart: $300 Una invitación para pasar el fin de semana con mi hijo y mi nuera: No tiene precio. Mi hijo llamó hace un par de meses preguntando si mi esposo y yo queríamos reunirnos con él y su...
Remember the old Mastercard commercials? Flight from Raleigh to Las Vegas: $700 Tickets to Rod Stewart: $300 An invitation to spend the weekend with my son and daughter-in-law: Priceless. My son called a couple of months ago asking if my husband and I wanted to join him and his wife in Las Vegas to see...
Don’t like progressive-left policies? Then don’t go to North Carolina. “We’re going to flip it,” was the warning from one of the architects of Colorado’s “Blueprint” shortly before I left the Rocky Mountains for the warmer, friendlier confines of North Carolina in January 2020. When Colorado’s professional left speaks, my experience is that we should...
“Por el amor de Dios, ¿por qué no podemos simplemente enseñarles a leer?” fue mi reacción después de ver un video de una maestra de preescolar de Carolina del Norte que usa su precioso tiempo de clase para presentar la ideología de género y su nuevo “amigo” Nash, el muñeco no binario, a los niños...
“For God’s sake, why can’t we just teach them to read?” was my reaction after watching a video of a North Carolina preschool teacher using precious class time to introduce gender ideology and her new “friend” Nash, the nonbinary doll, to young children. In the case of preschoolers, just teach them the letters in Nash’s...
“Would you get on an airplane that is 100% unreliable?” Of course not. That was a serious question a former Utilities Commission staffer asked me after I shared this confession Carolina Journal uncovered in a 2018 N.C. solar power application: “Solar is an intermittent energy source, and therefore the maximum dependable capacity is 0 MW.” ...
Pop some popcorn, open your laptop, and log onto Twitter. Under Elon Musk’s ownership, Twitter is one of the most interesting online places to be. Once the equivalent of an EPA superfund site for toxic rhetoric, Twitter is now center stage in a national debate about censorship, transparency, and government and institutional meddling into content...
George Orwell’s doublespeak is the dialect of the political left. The ease with which elected officials spew words that contradict our lived experiences is remarkable. President Biden celebrates the “Inflation Reduction Act” as inflation ravages American households. Vice President Kamala Harris says on national television that the southern border is “secure” despite the very real...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of “Life is Beautiful,” an endearing movie that “offers the possibility of hope in the face of unflinching horror” – in this case, the Holocaust. It won three Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor. The internet movie site IMDB includes the Italian film in the comedy, romance,...