The Latest

• New Carolina Journal Online features

  Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the state Energy Policy Council’s mixed reaction to recent changes in state energy law. Roy Cordato’s Daily Journal challenges the claim that people have a right to health care.

  Mitch Kokai, August 17, 2017, 36 words

• Another Title IX failure

  Cynthia Garrett and Alison Scott write for the Washington Examiner about a case of Title IX and negative consequences on a major university campus. It is not often that the veil of university Title IX procedures is lifted, but when it is, as described in Zoe Katz’s heartfelt…

  Mitch Kokai, August 16, 2017, 260 words

• Obama appointees remain in key national security jobs

  Richard Pollock and Ethan Barton of the Daily Caller report one reason for pushback against President Trump’s national security priorities. Several Obama holdovers who led initiatives at odds with President Donald Trump’s foreign policy remain on the staff of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, The Daily Caller…

  Mitch Kokai, August 16, 2017, 215 words

• National Review editor wants to ‘mothball’ Confederate monuments

  Rich Lowry presumably wrote his latest National Review Online column without knowledge of the unsanctioned effort to topple a Confederate monument in Durham. So he makes no reference to that incident while calling generally for similar monuments to be removed. Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely…

  Mitch Kokai, August 16, 2017, 238 words

• Antifa and the Alt-Right

  Ben Shapiro of National Review Online compares disturbing elements of the political left and right. … [H]ere we stand: On the one side, a racist, identity-politics Left dedicated to the proposition that white people are innate beneficiaries of privilege and therefore must be excised from political power; on…

  Mitch Kokai, August 16, 2017, 257 words

• New Carolina Journal Online features

  Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on experts’ analysis of criteria N.C. legislators want to use when drawing new election maps. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why North Carolina should scrap its ban on plastic bags on the Outer Banks.

  Mitch Kokai, August 16, 2017, 40 words

• Appeals Court ruling favors Asheville hospital in dispute over violent mental patient

  A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Mission Hospital in Asheville cannot be held liable for its decision not to commit a mentally disturbed patient who ended up shooting family members and killing himself. In an opinion that leads with quotations from Rousseau and Aristotle,…

  Mitch Kokai, August 15, 2017, 123 words

• Appeals Court rules against fired UNC professor’s pursuit of attorney’s fees

  The tenured UNC-Chapel Hill professor placed on unpaid leave and then fired after a drug smuggling arrest in South America cannot collect attorney’s fees as part of the resolution of his lawsuit against the school. A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Bruce Frampton is…

  Mitch Kokai, August 15, 2017, 121 words