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,...
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...
One of the crueler aspects of Colorado’s Medicaid expansion is that it’s a case study for how expansion crowds out services for those who really need it.
Are the ’70s back? Hopefully not the fashion, but I’ll take the music. Tube socks with short shorts are a bad look for most people. Yet the world would be a better place if we listened to a little more “Saturday Night Fever” and Yacht Rock. Two things I had hoped we’d never relive from...
I am woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore And I know too much to go back an’ pretend Lyrics to Helen Reddy’s 1972 hit “I Am Woman.” I know too much to go back and pretend. I refuse to be part of the collective insanity that pretends not to know how...
Every one of Cooper’s budgets has defunded Opportunity Scholarships for low-income students, claiming they “are wrong.