Opinion
Boosting civic knowledge among young adults is no simple task
The future of American civic life depends on students' continued willingness to learn real lessons from the nation's past.
Opinion
News & Observer gets it wrong on taxes
Raleigh News & Observer editor Ned Barnett continues to be of the belief that what ails North Carolina is a state government that is too small. In his Jan. 29 editorial, he expresses frustration that hard-working North Carolinians are keeping too much of their money. Claiming that “excessive tax cuts” over the past several years...
News
Washington Post ranks Cooper No. 9 among 2024 Democratic presidential candidates
A major national media outlet ranks N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper among its top 10 options for Democratic presidential candidates in 2024. The Washington Post lists Cooper at No. 9 in the rankings unveiled Saturday.
Opinion
Democrats, allies make clear: rules different for GOP justices
The current actions of the Democrat majority on the state Supreme Court, their liberal activist supporters, and the editorial writers of the state’s largest newspapers have made their position clear. Hundreds of years of precedent, tradition, and the written code of judicial ethics do not apply to you if you are elected by the citizens...
Opinion
Bootleggers, Baptists, and a zebra cobra
Many of the problems with modern American politics stem from a media obsessed with creating a dramatic narrative and politicians dying to be on center stage. We don’t have to look any further than Raleigh’s recent case of the missing zebra cobra (N. nigricincta) to find an example. Residents of Wake County were served nearly...
Opinion
A note from CJ’s editor: Media should be better
This week, a column from the Carolina Journal was cited in an article in the Triangle area’s local News & Observer. The column, written by Dallas Woodhouse, in “The Woodshed” contained analysis and informed speculation after U.S. Census numbers revealed that North Carolina would gain a 14th U.S. House seat. In the initial version, Woodhouse presented...
Opinion
More than ‘inclusion’ must be considered for trans participation in girls sports
On April 5, 2021, The News & Observer published an opinion piece in opposition of girls sports at the middle and high school level being exlusively for biological females. The piece was written by Doriane Coleman, Juniper Eastwood, and Martina Navratilova. The authors expressed dissatisfaction with H.B. 358, claiming that the bill goes “beyond what is...
Opinion
Divergent opinions and the power of independent thought
The News & Observer of Raleigh and The Charlotte Observer have offered up a wonderful example of the power of free and independent thought. The example, in the form of a pair of wildly disparate editorials, was probably an accident and most likely elicited audible gasps and groans from the staffs of the respective newspapers. But...
Opinion
Connecting the wrong dots
Some reporters make mistakes that aren’t very innocent. Others distort the information they’ve gathered to push agendas. But rarely do those who engage in such malpractice suffer any public embarrassment — and it’s rarer still that their employers face any monetary setback for publishing those errors. But that actually happened in October, when a jury awarded...
Opinion
Media covering up Obama’s speech-scheduling gaffe
The contretemps over Obama's jobs speech scheduling is a perfect example of how the mainstream media acts as the propaganda arm for liberals and Democrats.
