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Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon details a disturbing assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies. The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of intelligence personnel have increased under President Donald Trump, according to a journal article by…

Scott Morefield of the Daily Caller explores interesting observations from the “founder of neoconservatism.” Commentary magazine editor-at-large Norman Podhoretz, once a staunch opponent of President Donald Trump and much of what he campaigned on, described how he slowly changed his mind on immigration, Trump and a host of…

Kyle Smith of National Review Online challenges left-of-center pundit Ezra Klein’s assertions about the Republican Party. He believes conservatives are getting driven off the rails by fears of black people and Muslims and documentation-challenged immigrants and maybe feminists and abstract art. Going back a bit, we had an…

Rich Lowry‘s latest Politico column offers condolences to Democratic Party leaders. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, miraculously transformed over the past few months into a relatively moderate Democratic elder stateswoman, has understandably been pushing back against the notion that she leads a socialist party defined by a few radicals in…

School districts across the state must decide again this year how to cope with a planned teacher union walkout in May. Terry Stoops analyzes the May 1 union action for the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Donald van der Vaart explains why government-mandated solar energy contracts…

Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the controversy surrounding anti-Semitic comments at a recent UNC-Chapel Hill conference. Andy Taylor’s Daily Journal laments the apparent lack of concern about the federal government’s $22 trillion debt.

In a thoughtful review of a Eric Kaufmann’s Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities, National Review’s Robert VerBruggen offers a sensible, middle of the road position on immigration:  The current immigration system is a complete disaster. We hand out a million…

Article 1, Section 1 of the North Carolina State Constitution holds that all persons are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor, and the pursuit of happiness."