Freedom

David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online about a slip for the United States in the latest economic freedom rankings. John Hood’s CJ Opinion explains why the federal infrastructure bill did us no favors. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion considers Thanksgiving in trying times.

Image source: Gov. Roy Cooper’s Twitter feed a year ago today, as he tightened his unscientific and demonstrably ineffective face mask order against people deliberately just before Thanksgiving. Having already canceled Easter, Independence Day, and attending college football games, the governor actually wanted to force people to…

Imagine a scenario where people's jobs, education, travel, grocery buying, access to government services, etc. are threatened every six months if they don't get another booster.

"We all have our stories of bureaucratic indifference; and now during Covid, indifference has become cruel."

Jacob Howland offers City Journal readers a comparison between today’s progressives and the builders of a famous biblical structure. Fear and pride raised the old Tower of Babel, built by anonymous wanderers who sought to “make us a name, lest we be scattered over all the earth.” Their…

This past week about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and about eight out of nine (88.6%) adult North Carolinians are estimated to have either vaccine-induced or natural immunity.

While there were about 2.7 times more Covid-19 cases to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated individuals than there were to fully vaccinated individuals, there were about 14.3 times more cases to vaccinated individuals than to people with prior infection.

This past week about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly nine out of ten (89.4%) adult North Carolinians are estimated to have either vaccine-induced or natural immunity.