Opinion

The blowback on student loan forgiveness

Even if one only counts Carolina Journal opinion submissions, there is tangible anger over President Biden’s student loan forgiveness order. The administration is receiving plenty of backlash on multiple fronts. Those include the graduates that worked and paid back loans on their own, but the more politically damaging group is the working class that never even went...

Ray Nothstine
Opinion

Wrongheaded immigration policy highlights much needed common sense

2022 is the worst year on record yet for deaths of migrants at the border, with over 600 bodies recovered by CBP. It’s a significant humanitarian crisis. In response to the uptick in deaths and illegal crossings, governors in Texas and Arizona have started busing illegal immigrants directly to Washington D.C. and New York City to...

Ben Goldhaber

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Americans have little taste for war in Ukraine, poll finds

Americans have little appetite for a potential war with Russia, a recent poll by Rasmussen Reports finds. The new national telephone and online survey, released Wednesday, Jan. 26, finds that only 31% of likely American voters think that, if Russia attacks Ukraine, U.S. combat troops should be sent to help, Rasmussen says. Of the respondents,...

CJ Staff
Opinion

Hold the line here at all costs 

While the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals quickly issued a stay on the OSHA vaccine Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), the Biden administration insisted that companies ignore the stay and proceed with the mandate. No matter what the courts or the Biden administration do, we the people of NC must prevent the implementation of this mandate...

Jason Phibbs
Opinion

The beauty of American diversity

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” – The New Colossus, engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty Immigrant. What do you think of when you...

Brooke Medina
Opinion

Biden should leave Trump health policies in place 

As the Biden administration takes office, there will be a stark contrast with the Trump administration on almost all policy areas. Perhaps no issue area will show as much contrast between the two presidents as much as health care. Regardless of the two men’s ideological differences, Biden should leave Trump’s health care executive orders in...

Jordan Roberts