World Cup visitors remind us, 250 years later, America is still great
As our 250th anniversary approaches (two weeks from tomorrow!), this is a perfect reminder just how fortunate we are to live in this country and to never take it for granted.
NC advances bill defining sex as biological, restricting gender-care funding, regulating adult content websites, and expanding parental rights in schools
A bill that would ban sexually explicit materials from public school libraries was fast-tracked through the North Carolina House this week. The measure, House Bill 636, passed that chamber in a 63-46 vote.
Democrats in a NC House committee vigorously objected to a measure on Tuesday that would ban sexually explicit materials from public school libraries.
"This will ensure that participants are adults, have the capacity to consent, and are participating without coercion."-Rep. Neal Jackson, R-Moore.
Late last year, the General Assembly passed legislation that required pornographic websites to verify the age of those visiting the site. We didn’t want anyone under the age of 18 to have access to such content. This was a commonsense measure, and I was proud to help get it across the finish line. Our message...
Children in North Carolina are being targeted by the porn industry on a daily basis. The NC General Assembly has passed several pieces of good legislation that address obscene materials children are allowed to access in schools and at public venues. One piece of legislation that passed recently is a bill addressing pornographic materials children...
North Carolina’s child obscenity laws make it illegal to disseminate obscene materials to minors. However, the law shields schools and libraries, making them exempt from the prohibition on obscenity. It’s because of these exceptions that activist librarians have been able to stash graphic pornography with erotic content on shelves in youth sections. There’s been a...
Book bans have been a real problem in history, typically by totalitarian governments — whether Marxist, fascist, theocratic, or otherwise. But parents who don’t want their young children given explicit tutorials on how to practice the latest sexual fads are not Robespierres in training. They just want the bare minimum of decency and common sense...
This spring Bill O'Reilly, host of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," devoted several segments to the obscene goings-on in a human sexualities class at the University of Kansas. Viewers were told how Prof. Dennis Dailey showed "highly explicit" material including nude images of little girls, said he understood how some could be pedophiles, held a "wheelchair sex day" in class, showed pornographic films, compared one photograph of a female's spread genitals to the Virgin Mary, and also made obscene gestures to students who demonstrated offense.