American politician (1921–2008)
Jim Geraghty writes for National Review Online about one person associated with the US Supreme Court who ought to retire. [A]t the court, the decision that I found most surprising…
What follows is one of the great “Did You Knows” of history. Two of America’s Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both died on July 4, 1826 — 50…
Soon, and for the first time since at least the Reconstruction era, Republicans will overtake Democrats as North Carolina’s largest political party. While that is an important milestone, North Carolina…
New 11th District Congressman Chuck Edwards has had to issue a press release asking constituents with "outstanding or unfinished casework" to contact his office because former Congressman Madison Cawthorn failed…
September 12, 1977 A former student at the University of North Carolina, Jeff MacNelly created the comic strip, “Shoe.” On this day, it began being published in newspapers. September 13, 1925…
Incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he is open to a federal gas tax hike. One of the arguments for hiking the federal gas tax is that it hasn’t been…
And if you guessed make it free, you win the prize. Yesterday’s McClatchy editorial— appearing in both the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer— thinks both the Queen…
The recent celebration of Constitution Day reminded us of the importance of the nation’s governing document. Jon Guze discusses the value of constitutional safeguards during the next edition of Carolina…
Deroy Murdock devotes his latest column at National Review Online to the case for renominating Raleigh attorney Tom Farr to the federal bench. Conservative activists are disappointed with Senator Tim…
News & Observer reports longtime editorial cartoonist Dwane Powell has died. Powell had been with the paper since 1975, and since the N&O is my hometown newspaper you can pretty…
The latest issue of Commentary magazine features a 1978 essay from Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn describing his first days living west of the Iron Curtain. Among the interesting asides: But…
John Gizzi of Newsmax profiles the late Tom Ellis, featuring commentary from JLF Senior Fellow Marc Rotterman. “Tom Ellis was a bare-knuckle fighter for two of the greatest conservatives of…