Opinion
How a party civil war could affect NC Democrats
Establishment Democrats, after watching in horror as prominent, long-time incumbents lose to DSA candidates, have begun hitting back hard.
Opinion
In politics, common decency still matters
I am a conservative. He was a progressive. Still, we had many productive conversations and worked together on a few important issues where our views converged.
Opinion
Words matter: Part 1
We often talk past each other because we use different language, even if we all speak or write English.
News
Conservative think tank firebombed
Three conservative organizations were set ablaze last Sunday in what federal officials are investigating as a deliberate act of arson, and the Center of the American Experiment calls an act of political terrorism.
Opinion
Sowell laments Progressives’ history of certainty, dismissiveness
Public discourse suffers when one side in a debate refuses to listen to the other side's arguments.
Opinion
Democrats at a dark crossroads
Democrats are making it difficult to resist the wholesale claim that the party is dominated by those with antisemitic beliefs, given the unique rise in antisemitic and pro-Hamas rhetoric that has emerged from their ranks. The North Carolina Democratic Party provides a local window into this downward spiral. Jewish Democrats are being intimidated and sidelined...
Opinion
Progressives may scoff, but data backs ‘two-parent privilege’
The political left loves to highlight the increasing rates of income inequality and declining rates of social mobility in recent decades. But progressives conveniently ignore one of the top drivers of these trends: a drop in the percentage of stable, two-parent households. Progressives struggle with this reality because it’s much easier — and more politically...
Opinion
Carolina voters dislike big government
North Carolina Democrats are frustrated. It’s not hard to see why. Since 2008, when Barack Obama narrowly won the state and Kay Hagan beat Elizabeth Dole by a more comfortable margin, Democrats have fought hard but lost every subsequent presidential and Senate race in the Tar Heel State. In 2010, Republicans won their first majorities...
Opinion
Outrageous story of the week: Government again mandates we pretend it’s an hour in the future
Every year I have hope that whatever sane adults exist in positions of power will come together to ensure we never again have to deal with government-mandated clock shifting. But every year the disappointing “spring forward” arrives, as it did this week. There may not be a better example of the hubris of government than...
Opinion
Progressives made a faulty prediction
My progressive friends are frustrated. They should be. After more than a decade of conservative governance, North Carolina has implemented many policies the Left disdains — from major tax cuts and spending restraint to regulatory reform and parental choice in education. The progressives’ primary political vehicle, the Democratic Party, is losing ground in voter registration,...
Opinion
Lawmakers have chance to fix ‘progressive’ mistake
A lawsuit from N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein helped expose a politically motivated law put in place during progressives' years of political power.
Opinion
Is authoritarianism a new fusionism?
More government, centralized power in Washington, overreaching government intervention in the market, state-enforced indoctrination of subjective morality, centering the collective over the individual, and coercing an anti-liberty agenda into the American polity. You would be correct if you read that and thought it described progressive leftism in America. You would also be correct if you...
