It has increased approximately 70 percent over the last year. Indeed, the increase over the last month has been astonishing to watch. This is an indication that investors in the United States and globally lack confidence in the U.S. dollar. The insane levels of deficit spending in Congress, and the […]
Category: Uncategorized
The Charlotte Light Rail Murder and Involuntary Commitments Of The Mentally Ill
The John Locke Foundation has a couple of articles that discuss the legislative response to the murder on Charlotte’s light rail. Among other things, the General Assembly decided that there must be “mental health evaluations for an expanded range of arrestees”. The state of North Carolina already had an involuntary […]
40% Of Drivers Dead After Collisions Had High Blood THC Levels
The NC Family Policy Council provides the details. This illustrates the extreme foolhardiness of making this substance legal, and thereby more accessible.
UNCG Stands By Its Police
The News and Record did a better job in its follow-up story after its horrible initial coverage of the incident that took place on the UNCG campus. It became clear in this story that the UNCG police had ample justification for intervening in this case during which a young black […]
Two No Kings Rallies In Greensboro Saturday
One will be on West Wendover; the other will be downtown. Both are being organized and sponsored by socialist groups: Indivisible and Occupy, respectively. These are national groups with a local presence. Given the fact that Greensboro is a socialist city, it only makes sense that these folks would be […]
Changing Of The Guard At Southeastern Seminary
Danny Akin, the president of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, announced his retirement yesterday. If the same kind of crowd that hired him and kept him employed will be selecting his replacement, we have no reason to believe there will be an improvement. Check out the below video from the […]
More Anti-Police Reporting At The News and Record
This morning, the News and Record featured a story about a couple of black UNCG students who were stopped and detained by police. They resisted arrest; and it apparently became a huge social media firestorm. The NAACP stepped in and criticized the UNCG police because they had failed to “de-escalate”. […]
Lobbying By The Health Insurance Industry
Chip Roy via Breitbart: Now, it may surprise people to know the healthcare industry spends almost three-quarters of a billion dollars on lobbying Washington every year. That’s six times more than the defense industry. Why? Because they want that free money…. That is a great illustration of why we have […]
The Jailing of Cecil Brockman And Pedophilia
The news yesterday that Rep. Cecil Brockman from Guilford County is being jailed was certainly stunning. But perhaps it should not have been. About a decade ago, the local media revealed warmly and approvingly that Brockman is a member of the LGBTQ community– specifically, that he was bisexual. It was […]
J.D. Greear’s Most Recent Defenses
We discuss here Rev. Greear’s various actions and statements because of the disproportionate influence he has here in North Carolina among Southern Baptists and throughout the Convention. It turns out that he has recently written a book defending his position that pastors should not discuss anything political in the pulpit. […]