Jesse Thomas wants you to know that he doesn’t have the aspiration to be a career politician but instead as a public servant. “I bill myself as a citizen public servant,” he told Carolina Journal in a recent telephone interview.
The Mecklenburg Black Republican Club (MBRC) in collaboration with the NCGOP Black Conservative Voices Coalition held their inaugural “Juneteenth Freedom Celebration” at Freedom House Church in Charlotte June 20. The star-studded event lineup featured renowned neurosurgeon and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Dr. Ben Carson, N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, famed...
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is backing a national group’s fight against “anti-American indoctrination,” including critical race theory, in public school classrooms. The group 1776 Action released a video this week with Robinson explaining his support for the campaign. We’re thrilled to have the support of @markrobinsonNC in our fight to stop anti-American indoctrination in our...
The Surry County Board of Commissioners is taking up a resolution to defend freedom of speech. The board is expected to pass it in a meeting Monday, Feb. 15, Commissioner Eddie Harris told Carolina Journal. Harris introduced the resolution, which condemns major technology companies for their “attack on the free speech rights of the American...
Familiar faces will lead the N.C. General Assembly over the next two years. The N.C. House and Senate both re-elected their top leaders without opposition as lawmakers returned to work in Raleigh. The N.C. General Assembly, both the House and Senate, convened for the 2021-22 session noon Wednesday, Jan. 13. A unanimous House elected Rep....
COVID-19 is a deadly virus. That’s indisputable. But information from state health experts and the governor are fraught with mixed messages and questions, which leaves people mostly confused and often afraid, one researcher says. A big problem is that, speaking for North Carolina, that information comes from a two-headed source, that being Gov. Roy Cooper...
RALEIGH — Two decades have passed since Jack Kemp earned national headlines as the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1996, but his political legacy continues. A new book labels Kemp “the bleeding-heart conservative who changed America.” Co-author Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard and political commentator for Fox News. Barnes discussed Kemp’s role in American political history with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — The 150th anniversary of the American Civil War has generated quite a bit of scholarship about a key event in the nation’s history. Dr. Sean Scott, visiting assistant professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, has written a book titled A Visitation of God. It examines the war from the perspective of religious people living in the Northern states. Scott discussed his research with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — You might know him as the first American president, the father of our country, the top Revolutionary War general, or just the guy on the quarter and the dollar bill. But it’s worth your time to learn more about George Washington as one of history’s great leaders. That’s the argument Mark McNeilly puts forward in the book George Washington and the Art of Business: The Leadership Principles of America’s First Commander-in-Chief. McNeilly is a longtime marketing executive and an adjunct professor of marketing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He discussed Washington’s leadership skills with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
GASTONIA — The primary for Senate District 43 includes current state Rep. Wil Neumann and Realtor Kathy Harrington, whose husband Michael served in the state House and was defeated by Hoyle in 2002. Kathy Harrington unsuccessfully challenged retiring Sen. David Hoyle for the seat in 2008.
RALEIGH — In today’s Friday interview, Carolina Journal’s Mitch Kokai discusses with Steve Moore, senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal and former president of the Club for Growth, how conservatives can get their mojo back. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
