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• Martin Center column examines COVID-19’s impact on professors

  Kathleen Bustamante writes for the Martin Center that the pandemic has affected her approach to college students’ challenges. A student whose mother had been hospitalized for leukemia, for example, experienced an understandably high amount of stress when the lockdown began. A bright student, he had turned in quality work…

  Mitch Kokai, July 3, 2020, 313 words

  

• Fighting back in the ‘cultural civil war’

  John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist offers readers ideas for counting the current anti-American narrative. Silicon Valley, Hollywood, academia, the mainstream media, corporate America, and the entire Democratic Party (along with not a few Republicans and Independents) have all caved under pressure from the woke mob, more or…

  Mitch Kokai, July 3, 2020, 318 words

  

• An imaginary defense from the chief justice

  Kyle Smith of National Review Online puts words in Chief Justice John Roberts’ mouth. I know that some of you are calling attention to how, when the liberals have five votes without me, I sometimes let forth a mighty roar denouncing the irreparable harm to our constitutional fabric,…

  Mitch Kokai, July 3, 2020, 317 words

  

• This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio

  Some question why police officers can get jobs in North Carolina with less training than barbers. Jon Sanders addresses in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio an even more interesting question: Why do barbers require so much training to get jobs? Jenna Robinson of the…

  Mitch Kokai, July 3, 2020, 106 words

  

• New Carolina Journal Online features

  Lindsay Marchello and Kari Travis recap for Carolina Journal Online the week’s top N.C. political news. John Trump’s Daily Journal explains that government edicts ignore the power of personal responsibility.

  Mitch Kokai, July 3, 2020, 29 words

  

• Virologist ponders the ‘mask wars’

  Chris von Csefalvay writes for City Journal about the political debate surrounding face masks. As states begin to reopen and America tries to recreate normalcy, masks have replaced social distancing as the new moral statement. Just as adherence to lockdowns was framed by many as a sign of…

  Mitch Kokai, July 2, 2020, 305 words

  

• Democratic elites might not like what they get

  Steve McCann describes in an American Thinker column what he calls a “fatal flaw” in Democratic elites’ electoral plan. Today, the two dominant factions within the party are the ultra-wealthy beneficiaries of capitalism plus college educated sanctimonious elites (collectively the vast bulk of the ruling class) on the…

  Mitch Kokai, July 2, 2020, 310 words

  

• New citizen counters the anti-American narrative

  Joshua Lawson of the Federalist discusses his new American citizenship. It was the fulfillment of a decades-long dream and is, so far, my happiest memory apart from my wedding day. But if you listen to the corporate media or watch the majority of entertainment produced today, my decision…

  Mitch Kokai, July 2, 2020, 319 words