The North Carolina gubernatorial office has always been considered a constitutionally weak executive branch ― and Democrats dating back to the early days of the Republic have made darn sure it stayed that way. For […]
Would you want to be in a political party that hated your guts? Or any organization really. The moment other members of any organization start criticizing, ostracizing or flat-out attacking you in public and in […]
Something’s got to be done about Social Security. In France, citizens are taking it to the streets to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. It is almost […]
When political partisans do something really out of the ordinary, they usually pay for it in spades down the road and then wish they had never done it. New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg may […]
The scariest professor I had in college at UNC was Dr. Daniels. He taught French 40 ― existential literature. I hated it. Everyone else loved him. He had a reputation for being lenient in grading […]
There is something so quintessentially American going on during March Madness that we need to keep it in mind every day of the year and remember why we love it so. Strange behavior of male […]
I was conducting a class recently for some bright undergrads about running for public elective office and we used the state government budget to learn about what gets funded, how it gets funded, why it […]
The world would be a far worse place without America. We all know that. Would it be worse off if Russia didn’t exist any longer? If militaristic Russia was somehow eliminated from the world scene […]
Best-selling author Douglas Murray spoke at the UNC Free Speech Alliance kickoff event last week co-sponsored by the Common Sense Society on the Chapel Hill campus. The title of his address was “Free Speech in […]
Capitol Hill staffers and campaign managers are busy people. Talking in short-hand by referring to one line in a crazy movie or comedy skit saves time and effort for all involved. Mental images convey far […]
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