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Recent poll offers clues about future of N.C. abortion policy
Most N.C. voters fall between the positions of completely legal and completely illegal abortions.
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Inflation checks for high gas prices and other outrageous stories
We should celebrate the return to Constitutional fidelity.
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The people against the alphabet soup regulators
The regulatory barriers placed on the need to develop natural resources to provide vital economic infrastructure have reached a crisis.
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Scheme to strip Supreme Court of jurisdiction would be an attack on our democracy
On Monday, I came across something in the Raleigh News & Observer that read like a letter to the editor from the angry uncle you try to avoid talking with at family reunions. But then I realized it was just Gene Nichol. Nichol, a law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, was irate about last week’s U.S....
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The ubiquity of useful idiots
Some past columns of mine have detailed the highly questionable behavior of some librarians. While there has been no short supply of critics within the profession, including two long meetings arguing that I must “cease and desist” writing about these shortcomings, my critics should be happy to learn that this column tackles other useful idiots....
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Woke capitalism — the last step in the left’s ‘long march through the institutions’?
To usher in a Marxist revolution and overthrow the capitalist system, Gramsci argued, first the communists had to take control of the cultural institutions and in turn dictate the prevailing ideology of society.
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Carolina Journal’s Donna King analyzes U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion ruling
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, which overturned the Roe v. Wade abortion precedent. King offered these comments during the June 24, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
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Why fathers are so important
Father’s Day was this past Sunday. Many people spent time with their fathers or even post photos celebrating the men in their life on social media. Still, more than ever, there is an epidemic of children living without a solid fatherly influence. Today 1 in 4 children in America live without any kind of father...
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Where are all the professional poverty protestors?
The ironic part of the poverty industry clamoring for more government is that the federal government itself is likely the biggest force against the poor.
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Juneteenth should reinforce that we are all capable of self-government
The American civil rights movement often called the second American Revolution, confronted ingrained prejudices and the idea that some are essentially destined to be serfs.
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‘A drag queen for every school’ and other outrageous stories
Below are just a few of the stories that caught my attention this week. I do want to say given the sky-high inflation and record gas prices that my heart is heavy for those that are struggling to make ends meet. Policy is important and it would be nice if we had a federal government...
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NC lagging on gun rights. What direction will it go?
North Carolina remains stuck in the muddled middle on gun rights.
