What I know about sports of any kind would fill a thimble with ample room left for your finger. But I have been around football long enough (every male in my family played at some level) to know what the two-minute warning is. For those who may be head-scratching, the two-minute warning is a signal...
Going back as far as August 2021, President Biden and Vice President Harris were “warning” Americans that due to supply chain issues, we shouldn’t expect a very Merry Christmas and to plan accordingly. For many in our culture that message, which was repeated by Democrat leaders with frequency, fell on deaf ears until only recently...
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito asked Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart “Are there secular philosophers and bioethicists who take the position that the rights of personhood begin at conception or at some point other than viability?” The question came up during oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case is...
Every year, private schools across the nation commence for graduation ceremonies. Yet, if many of today’s progressive educators are to be believed, the ceremony they participate in ought to be abolished or sent underground. They wish for public schools to be the primary—and in some activists’ view, exclusive—vehicle for educating our youth. Indeed, whenever the...
America has always been more religiously devout than other Western democracies. But now, like them, it has begun to secularize rapidly. And, as religion has declined, political ideology has intensified, society has fragmented, and cultural common ground has disintegrated. As a result, politics is increasingly divisive and existentially fraught. For over three decades, debates about...
RALEIGH — Ask a conservative to list his political heroes, and you are likely to hear names such as Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and William F. Buckley. Those looking further back in time might list Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Fewer people are likely to mention Nathaniel Macon or Josiah Bailey, unless they have read the latest book from Raleigh author Garland Tucker. Tucker, chairman and chief executive officer of Triangle Capital Corporation, profiles important figures from American history in the book Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America, From Jefferson to Reagan. Tucker discussed the book with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — We often think of public policy debates in terms of Democrats versus Republicans, or conservatives versus liberals. In contrast, Dr. C.L. Gray has written, “Our most fundamental political differences are based on different world-views that can be traced back more than 2,000 years.” Gray, the founder of Physicians for Reform, has written a book on these clashing world-views titled The Battle for America’s Soul. He discussed key themes from the book with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
In an odd coincidence, a presentation about the morality of war set up a confrontation of a more immediate sort. TV’s “Benson” and ancient Chinese philosophers are involved.
RALEIGH — The business team was working out its plan to open a fast-food franchise in an overseas market. Although their target company offered a popular menu, it maintained its ethical reputation by keeping a tight control on franchise operators. That could present issues later in the process, they conceded, but it might not be a showstopper.
In an odd coincidence, a presentation about the morality of war set up a confrontation of a more immediate sort. TV's "Benson" and ancient Chinese philosophers are involved.
Academics discussed several challenges facing higher education in North Carolina at the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy’s conference in Chapel Hill on Oct. 26. Jon Sanders says those included answering the calls for increasing accountability, restoring liberty and dignity, and translating lofty goals into practical application.
