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Liberty
Left-Wing Group Pushing for ‘Third Reconstruction’
Joseph Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a disturbing new left-wing campaign. A left-wing advocacy group funded by George Soros and backed by 30 House Democrats is planning a…
Law & Public Safety
1619 Project Inspires Attack on Second Amendment
David Harsanyi of National Review Online exposes a misguided attempt to rewrite the history of American gun rights. Left-wing academic Carol Anderson’s new book, The Second: Race and Guns in…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Carolina Journal Online reports on the 36-14 state Senate vote to approve a tax reform package. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion highlights Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s recognition that politics can’t solve…
Elections & Public Integrity
Testimony in Favor of Bill Returning Absentee Ballot Deadline to Election Day
I spoke today at the General Assembly in favor of S326, entitled “Election Day Integrity Act.” The bill would return the deadline for county boards of election to receive absentee-by-mail…
Regulation
Senate Finance Committee moves forward with Regulatory Sandbox Bill
Today, the Senate Finance Committee approved SB 470, the Regulatory Sandbox bill. The legislation will now go to the Rules Committee before having a vote before the full Senate. In…
Elections & Public Integrity
Testimony in Favor of Bill Banning “Zuck Bucks”
I spoke today at the General Assembly in favor of S725, entitled “Prohibit Private Money in Elections Admin.” The bill would ban the State Board of Elections and county boards…
Education
Parents’ Concerns About Indoctrination in N.C. Schools Take Center Stage at First Meeting of Lt. Gov. Robinson’s Task Force
This week, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s task force – the one charged with looking at concerns over ideologically and politically slanted lessons being taught in North Carolina public schools –…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Debt and the American Experience
Household debt has doubled since 2003. American households are now $14.56 trillion in debt (still far less than the U.S. government’s whopping $28 trillion) which shakes out to around $118,000 per…
Education
Whiteness “a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility”
Apparently, this is a real study published in a peer-reviewed academic journal by a medical physician in private practice.
Liberty
WATCH: This Is What Nikole Hannah-Jones Claims Is The Basis of Our Founding
On Monday our Shaftesbury Society forum looked at the controversy over the hiring of New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones by UNC-Chapel Hill’s journalism school and the claims Hannah-Jones makes…
Education
Martin Center Column Highlights Rot Within Prestigious Colleges
Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about serious problems plaguing high-profile institutions of higher learning. Parents will go to all sorts of lengths to give their children a leg…
Health Care
Fauci’s Skewed Version of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Kylee Zempel of the Federalist highlights flaws in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s dubious approach to pandemic policy. Whether Fauci was right or wrong — although hindsight and mass casualties have certainly…