In 2016, popular physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson set the internet on fire with a single tweet: He was raked over the coals for days, weeks, for suggesting that a country could be ruled by scientists and their “factual” proclamations. Tyson even expounded further on the idea in a video, where he said that because people...
Book bans have been a real problem in history, typically by totalitarian governments — whether Marxist, fascist, theocratic, or otherwise. But parents who don’t want their young children given explicit tutorials on how to practice the latest sexual fads are not Robespierres in training. They just want the bare minimum of decency and common sense...
Los empleadores en Carolina del Norte y en todo el país luchan por encontrar trabajadores calificados para ocupar puestos clave en sus organizaciones. A medida que reconsideran las calificaciones mínimas que están dispuestos a aceptar, los candidatos seleccionados están dejando de lado cada vez más el requisito de un título de cuatro años. El gobernador...
Every year I have hope that whatever sane adults exist in positions of power will come together to ensure we never again have to deal with government-mandated clock shifting. But every year the disappointing “spring forward” arrives, as it did this week. There may not be a better example of the hubris of government than...
Employers in North Carolina and across the country are struggling to find qualified workers to fill key positions in their organizations. As they reconsider the minimum qualifications they are willing to accept, those screening candidates are increasingly setting aside the requirement of a four-year degree. Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday signed an executive order that...
This week, news emerged of a behind-closed-doors February interview of retired FBI National Security Intelligence supervisor George Hill by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. One North Carolina congressman., Rep. Dan Bishop, R-NC-8, sits on the committee and has been very vocal about weaponization of federal bureaucracies...
According to the N.C. Medical Examiner’s Office, 4,243 North Carolinians died of suspected drug overdoses in 2022. This was a 7% increase over the year before, which was a 26% increase over the previous year, which was a 17% increase over the year before that, and on and on, as can be seen in the...
The latest example of how we really just can’t have nice things anymore — libraries. Popular conservative commentator David Burge summed up the pattern of the left’s cultural takeover fairly well in a famous tweet: While written in 2015, this pattern is still repeating across many institutions that conservatives at one time reflexively put their...
The statistics on religion show both affiliation with and attendance at America’s churches are plummeting. And North Carolina is feeling the affects, with church buildings shuttering across the state due to lack of members and donations. This is a dangerous sign for the future of our state. Ryan Burge — a Baptist pastor, data scientist,...
One of the hot items at the legislature this week was a bill filed by state House Rep. Erin Pare, R-Wake, that would take the current Wake County Commission’s seven districts and allow the voters of those districts to elect those who represent them. You may be asking yourself, “Wait, who was electing the Wake...
This week, North Carolina’s Democrat Attorney General Josh Stein, who is running for governor in 2024, announced that he will not defend the state of North Carolina in a lawsuit over the use of abortion-inducing drugs. It’s his job to defend the state’s laws, but he appears to be under the impression that he gets...
When I did more on-the-ground reporting, I was assigned to go to a Durham town hall leading up to the N.C. General Assembly’s drawing of new electoral maps. Republicans billed the meetings, with a stop in each of the state’s congressional districts, as a listening tour of sorts. I remember as I listened to progressive...