Carolina Journal is correct when it points out that the northernmost parts of North Carolina will be impacted when cannabis begins to be sold in retail establishments in Virginia later this year. This is a sad period for the commonwealth of Virginia. Its new female governor will doubtless unleash other […]
Duke Energy Seeking Permit For Nuclear Plants At Belews Creek
The News and Record reported yesterday that Duke Energy has filed to have as many as six nuclear reactors at its current Belews Creek generating station. We are currently seeing smaller nuclear reactors advocated to be used on a widespread basis. It should be noted that the data center planned […]
Trump’s DHHS Defunding Pediatricians’ Organization
It was poetic justice that RFK Jr. defunded the American Academy of Pediatricians within the last couple of weeks. This is the pediatricians’ main specialty society that has been decidedly left wing for many years. Within the last five years, it has pushed the Covid vaccines for kids; masking to […]
Too Many Physicians Leaving Clinical Practice
An interesting article demonstrates more physicians are leaving clinical practice during recent years than had been the case in the past. (HT: AAPS) The article identifies female physicians and hospital-based physicians being particularly at risk of leaving clinical practice prematurely. You think? Another group at risk is those participating in […]
NC “Education Lottery” Giving Less To Public Schools
An interesting report at WRAL suggests that the proportion of revenues from the NC Education Lottery directed to public schools is at an all-time low. It has declined to only 16%. When the lottery started years ago, there was a constant refrain that other states had a lottery, and our […]
Metaxas/ Basham On SBC “MeToo”
I recommend highly the following interview. Eric Metaxas gets to the essence of the issue of the handling of sexual abuse allegations within the Southern Baptist Convention. He interviews Megan Basham starting at the 22:45 mark:
The Crux Of The Somali Minnesota Problem
Barack Obama Needs To Spend Time In Prison
Even Some Liberals Concede The Trans Agenda Was A Bad Idea
Check out this article from Newsweek. (HT: Fred) With the election of Trump, the world began to return toward some semblance of sanity on this issue. There is still a way to go, however.
The Crusades Got A Bad Rap
I am among those who believe there were ample justifications for the Crusades. Southern Italy and Sicily– the places from which my grandparents immigrated– were among those conquered, occupied and ruled by the Muslims centuries ago: