North Carolina’s farmers have been asked to overcome a wide range of challenges in recent years: declining commodity prices, tariffs, hurricanes, floods and droughts. When federal lawmakers legalized hemp production in the 2018 U.S. Farm […]
Dear Ladies, It may seem odd that I would write a thank-you note to women I regard as shrill and humorless, but you ladies have reaffirmed for conservatives the wisdom of being conservative. First, I […]
Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted this out last week before he entered the hospital with a heart ailment: “There should be no billionaires!” He is wrong. There are close to 585 billionaires in […]
Fall began but a few days ago. The traditional calendar school year is officially underway for North Carolina families, many nearing one full month of instruction to kick off the school year. As sure as […]
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.” Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government […]
More than 120,000 Americans will lose their battle to Alzheimer’s disease this year. This debilitating condition is the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death. Nationwide, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s disease every 65 seconds. […]
During my student days at a UCLA economics department faculty/graduate student coffee hour in the 1960s, I was chatting with Professor Armen Alchian, probably the greatest microeconomic theory economist of the 20th century. I was […]
You might be scratching your head and asking: “When did the GOP ever have the African American vote to begin with?” The Republican Party has been joined at the hip of African American freedom since […]
When pundits look at who is running for president, they focus on two things: poll numbers and the amount of money raised. They should look at two other things: how many people show up at […]
In March 1929, outgoing President Calvin Coolidge offered some sage advice to his successor Herbert Hoover. On the drive from the White House to the Capitol, the typically dour Coolidge noted wryly, “As president, you […]
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