U.S. Sens. Thom Tillis, R-NC, and Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, announced on Monday that they recently introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime to purposely obstruct, delay, or affect commerce by blocking a public road or highway.
Charlotte City Council member Braxton Winston has thrown his hat in the ring in the 2024 race as a Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s Commissioner of Labor.
Editor’s note: This piece by Donald Bryson was published first at RealClearHistory. September 2, 1945, and its display of American military strength was, in many ways, the culmination of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s famous quote after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant...
‘The View’s’ Joy Behar unaware that black Americans own guns too Why do so many white liberals treat black folk like pets or mascots? Not to mention the sheer stupidity of Behar’s comments. Racism is alive and well but not always in the way the corporate media likes to explain it. Seven new Hunter Biden...
Props to N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger for guiding the conversation in our state back toward things that matter. Things about which we can happily disagree. Courts, pipelines, solar farms, elections? Nah. Let’s talk barbecue, he says. Better yet, let’s talk barbecue while eating it, plates piled high. Tomato sauce on the western half, vinegar-based...
RALEIGH — Conservatives and libertarians often serve as allies in public policy debates, but they tend to diverge on some hot-button issues. Charles C.W. Cooke, writer for National Review, hopes the two camps can find more common ground in the future. He sets out one potential course in his book The Conservatarian Manifesto. Cooke explained key themes from the book during a recent speech for the John Locke Foundation. He also offered details during a conversation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Theologian and social critic Richard John Neuhaus argued that democratic pluralism promoted peace and social justice much better than any Marxist dogma.
VALLE CRUCIS — The North Carolina Department of Transportation informed the owners of Maverick Farms Feb. 5 the department would make an offer for several acres of their land by the end of February. If they didn’t accept the offer, DOT would condemn the property and begin construction within 30 days.
The idea of college-level educators as entrepreneurs isn’t new. It is a rediscovery of something tried and true.
For committed political junkies, and even ordinary Americans, the fact that The New York Times is a left-wing newspaper comes as no surprise. From the editorial page to news copy to cultural reviews, the Gray Lady operates from a liberal worldview — and a blatant one at that. William McGowan has done newspaper aficionados a service by giving us a birds-eye view of the Times’ journalistic malpractice, mainly over the last two decades. The many tales of woe come neatly packaged in a 276-page tome titled Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of The New York Times Means for America.
RALEIGH — Companies that seek out hard-to-find owners of abandoned property — and charge for their services — are seeing red. Officials at the Jupiter, Fla.-based Equity Solutions of the Carolinas, say the new law could put them out of business.
