Recently, North Carolinians were handed a major Second Amendment victory: the General Assembly repealed pistol purchase permits; and rightfully so. The Jim Crow-era law was a stain on our great state, and it deserves to be relegated to the trash bins of history. That said, the General Assembly can and should do more. It is...
With North Carolina recently being ranked the top state in the nation for business by CNBC (and just about everyone else) there are lots of headlines about major corporations relocating here to get the competitive advantage. But there are also thousands of smaller companies that relocate here or open storefronts every year. Last year this...
Our right to be offensive is increasingly being seen as this pesky, little symptom of the First Amendment that must be either begrudgingly entertained or reluctantly accepted. People will casually write off being offensive as uncouth or unbecoming of a civilized society; they are, however, mistaken. The ones who are annoyed by our right to...
A movement known as the Convention of States (COS) has been gaining traction across the country. The movement seeks to bring together delegates from all 50 states to propose new amendments to the federal constitution by invoking Article V of the United States Constitution. Nineteen states have passed legislation approving such a convention, and another...
Recently, Dr. Christian Thurstone, a Colorado psychiatrist, implored North Carolinians to heed his warning about medical marijuana, suggesting that legalizing medical marijuana in our state would be a net negative. Dr. Thurstone offered reasonable critiques of medical marijuana—ease of access, the potential for being over-prescribed, and higher potency. However, while all of these are valid, he...
North Carolina should be more like our nation’s capital. No, not because of being a swamp filled with lobbyists, bureaucrats, and career politicians. But instead, in terms of how we indulge in and regulate alcohol. Our federalist style of governance in the U.S. allows states, and districts, to act as “laboratories of democracy”—a state can...