Month: August 2025

DMV Did Much Better With DEI Than With Its Real Job

That is the conclusion of the state Department of Transportation’s own internal report. The state auditor has also reported on an audit he performed which provides additional detail regarding the agency’s failures. This is an awful reflection on former Governor Roy Cooper. But it also reinforces the justified perception that […]

GOP Establishment In Southern State Parties

We have discussed previously the phenomenon of state GOP parties in the South being controlled by the GOP establishment; and of the highest level Republican politicians in the South tending to be part of that same GOP establishment. Georgia is perhaps the worst. A former Republican lieutenant governor from that […]

Constitutional Questions Raised Regarding Greensboro’s Red Light Camera Program

Readers will recall that the city of Greensboro is poised to reinstate its notorious red light camera program. The New American has an article that calls into question whether such programs are constitutional. Here are some relevant excerpts: Outsourcing enforcement to private, for-profit companies undermines due process and removes accountability from […]

NC AG Jeff Jackson Tries To Stop Ralph Baric/ UNC Covid Document Release

Here is North Carolina Attorney General @JeffJacksonNC arguing that the public should not have access to about 50,000 pages of documents, mostly of UNC Professor Ralph Baric (a close collaborator with the Wuhan Institute of Virology) possibly containing clues about the origins of… https://t.co/H8VbGXJdaG pic.twitter.com/VPXkRpIoV6 — Gary Ruskin (@garyruskin) August […]