Joe Pearlman

Joe Pearlman is a former appeals hearing officer for the N.C. Division of Employment Security, where he served for 28 years. He is a graduate of Wake Forest Law and lives in Charlotte.

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Jeff Jackson takes a stand for government inefficiency

Jeff Jackson and other Democratic AGs are using the judicial system to thwart DOGE's efforts, in effect standing up for bureaucratic unaccountability.

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Latest Kendi disclosures highlight Charlotte-Meck Schools’ extravagance

There is an aphorism that every movement starts as a cause, becomes a business, and devolves into a racket. The recent disclosures regarding Ibram X. Kendi, the avatar of antiracism; and the institute founded under his auspices at Boston University, indicate that antiracism may well be into its third phase. On his way to monetizing...

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Opinion

Senate Bill 20 can be debated, but legislation on abortion was necessary

Roe v. Wade was the product of a tortured legal attempt by the United States Supreme Court to find the right to abortion within the emanations of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution. Those emanations — or “penubmras,” to quote the 1973 Roe majority — led the justices to discover an unenumerated right...

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We don’t need a divorce. We need federalism

The recently rehabilitated Marjorie Taylor Greene and a few other fringy figures have floated the idea of a national dissolution, or divorce, with Republicans and Democrats ensconced within their own national boundaries. While we are manifestly a divided nation, such a separation is impractical for many reasons, including the necessity of an integrated national defense. And...

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