Editor’s Note: This piece is adapted from a column that first appeared in the American Institute for Economic Research. IMPOVERISHING US IS NOT THE SOLUTION The Biden administration’s term of choice for the ridiculously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is “historic.” One reason is its “climate change” promises. The monetary costs alone are enormous, which is strangely a point of...
North Carolina’s Hispanic population continues to grow — from 5% of the state’s population in the 2000 census, to 8% in the 2010 census, to 11% in the 2020 census. This is still a lower percentage than America at large, which is 19% Hispanic, but the steady growth brings questions about how the increased Hispanic...
2nd U.S. Congressional District (includes all of Franklin, Harnett, and Nash counties, and portions of Johnston, Wake, and Wilson counties.) George Holding, Republican. (one-term incumbent, served two terms in 13th Congressional District). Education: Wake Forest University degrees in classics and law. Occupation: Congressman. Career highlights: Member of House Ways and Means Committee. Former legislative counsel...
President Donald Trump’s rock-hard stance against several international free trade deals is softening, and immigration reform might include guest worker provisions. Those national topics — along with the importance of exports to the state’s agricultural market — headlined the 13th Annual Agriculture Development forum Thursday, Feb. 1, at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. The half-day...
When most North Carolinians think of terrorism, ISIS and al-Qaida come to mind. But there is another form of terrorism closer to home — right here in North Carolina — and that’s the violent, vicious street gang known as Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. If you’re not familiar with MS-13, according to Wikipedia, the gang originated in Los Angeles. It was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants who came to the United States after the...
A government body can’t block the media from reporting on one of its public meetings because its leader doesn’t like the coverage he thinks it will get. Nor can it list an item on its public agenda, remove the item until the audience leaves the room, and then discuss it once the public has vacated...
The economic historians provide numerous examples that will leave you asking, "How could politicians be this stupid?"
RALEIGH — If your email gets a “Morning Jolt” or you consult “The Campaign Spot” regularly at National Review Online, you know that Jim Geraghty keeps a close watch on electoral developments across the country. Geraghty is a contributing editor at National Review. During a recent visit to North Carolina, he addressed the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. Geraghty also discussed key 2014 election trends with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Most of the 1,429 unaccompanied minors relocated to North Carolina after they entered the United States illegally were released to host families in Mecklenburg, Durham, and Wake counties, raising health and safety concerns, as well as concerns about increased education costs to local governments.
No Crime But Prejudice is the only revenge that businessman Henry Fischer and his employees will get for the thuggish treatment they endured at the hands of federal authorities who targeted his homebuilding company for its alleged violations of the federal law against employing “undocumented workers.” Against long odds and a legal deck stacked in favor of the government, Fischer Homes managed to survive a harrowing persecution that could easily have destroyed the firm — an attack launched just to show that the Bush administration was “getting tough” on businesses that employed illegal aliens.
RALEIGH — Free trade, lost jobs, and high gasoline prices are among the issues fueling North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District race between four-time Republican Rep. Robin Hayes and Democrat Larry Kissell, a former textile worker currently employed as a teacher at East Montgomery High School.
