This week, Democrats in the N.C. Senate filed a bill aimed at curbing defections from their party — clearly in response to the high-profile departure of Democrat-turned-Republican state Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County. The bill’s primary sponsors are Democrat state Sens. Natasha Marcus of Mecklenburg County, Michael Garrett of Guilford, and Sydney Batch of...
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s life is shaped by financial hardship, family life, trains, churches, the military, and even professional wrestling. In other words, Robinson is an ordinary guy. Many political autobiographies are trite or even dreadful, but “We are the Majority!” offers much more than platitudes. His book provides interesting stories of personal failure and...
A bill that would ban schools from promoting more than a dozen controversial views in public schools is one step closer to a full vote in the state Senate. It cleared the Senate Education and Higher Education Committee through a voice vote on Tuesday, August 24. Among the ideas House Bill 324 would prevent schools...
Veteran journalist Allan Ryskind notes how the Hollywood Ten defended Stalin and Hitler when their Communist Party bosses told them to.
Pacifism mixed with an arrogant idealism has not made our nation or the world safer.
Pacifism mixed with an arrogant idealism has not made our nation or the world safer.
U.S. policy was to give Stalin, a totalitarian dictator, everything he wanted without asking anything in return.
The Carrboro Citizen is making a devil's bargain by seeking a loan from the town government.
A distinguished panel of academic thinkers discussed academic freedom in the wake of September 11 as part of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy’s conference in Chapel Hill Oct. 26. The conference focused on “challenges facing higher education in North Carolina.” By Jon Sanders.
Will North Carolina radicals who signed an anti-war diatribe from a communist-front group apologize for their embarrassing predictions about Afghanistan? Don’t hold your breath, says John Hood.
