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• Best-case scenario for Trump fans in the years ahead

  Eddie Scarry of the Washington Examiner offers Trump supporters suggestions for how to approach the next four years. Joe Biden is now the president, and there’s nothing Republicans can do to change it. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s imagine what the next four years will…

  Mitch Kokai, January 22, 2021, 314 words

  

• Chinese sanction top Trump officials

  Jack Beyrer of the Washington Free Beacon highlights communist China’s latest provocative action. The Chinese government is targeting outgoing federal government officials. The Chinese government announced sanctions on former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, and over 20 other figures from the Trump…

  Mitch Kokai, January 22, 2021, 298 words

  

• This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio

  Voters and taxpayers might hear sharply contrasting messages over the next four years from their Democratic governor and Republican lieutenant governor. Rick Henderson compares Gov. Roy Cooper and new Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Terry Stoops assesses N.C. families’…

  Mitch Kokai, January 22, 2021, 126 words

  

• New Carolina Journal Online features

  Rick Henderson reports for Carolina Journal Online on the death of musician Randy Parton, namesake of one of North Carolina’s worst political boondoggles. Donald Bryson’s Daily Journal urges two critical reforms for North Carolina’s Emergency Management Act.

  Mitch Kokai, January 22, 2021, 36 words

  

• It’s time to celebrate school choice!

  Next week is National School Choice Week (NSCW).  NSCW is when thousands join to celebrate the ability of parents to choose the school or learning environment that best fits their children. This year, National School Choice Week is January 24-30, 2021.  As you might expect, with the pandemic, many…

  Bob Luebke, January 21, 2021, 211 words

  

• Biden and the ‘Californication’ of American government

  Editors at the Washington Examiner share their concerns about new President Joe Biden‘s interest in left-coast politics. We did a double take at the report this week that Joe Biden, once inaugurated as president, would treat California as the administration’s “de facto think tank,” placing it “center stage…

  Mitch Kokai, January 21, 2021, 307 words

  

• Unintended consequences from a corporate boycott of the GOP

  Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon explains why a campaign from big corporations targeting donations to the Republican Party and its candidates could backfire. The wave of corporations cutting their political giving in the wake of the Capitol riot is intended to punish Republicans for backing…

  Mitch Kokai, January 21, 2021, 300 words

  

• Hillsdale president revisits 1984

  Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College revisits George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel in the latest issue of Imprimis. In Orwell’s 1984, there are telescreens everywhere, as well as hidden cameras and microphones. Nearly everything you do is watched and heard. It even emerges that the watchers have become expert…

  Mitch Kokai, January 21, 2021, 324 words