The Biggest Threat to Compensating Forced Sterilization Victims
I have been a very strong supporter of compensating the victims of North Carolina’s forced sterilization program. This issue means a lot to the victims and is one of the most important issues I’ve...
View ArticleVictims Won’t Come Forward For a Reason
There’s an excellent op-ed in today’s Winston-Salem Journal about the state’s eugenics program. The op-ed encourages victims to come forward. Unless there’s going to be meaningful compensation that...
View ArticleRacial Justice Act: Moratorium and Unintended Consequences
The North Carolina Racial Justice Act allows those on death row or facing the death penalty to challenge the decision to seek or impose the death penalty. To win this challenge, the defendant or death...
View ArticleAnnexation Lawsuit
As reported in the Carolina Journal, several cities are challenging the new annexation law in court. The first issue that the court must address is whether the protest petition process is a vote. The...
View ArticleCities Not Following State Law on Guns
As has been reported by the AP, municipalities are ignoring a recently enacted state law (HB 360, S.L. 2011-268) regarding concealed handguns. Local governments can’t pass ordinances that would...
View ArticleJLF expert recommends steps for repaying N.C.’s $2.6 billion unemployment...
As state lawmakers grilled the head of the N.C. Division of Employment Security today on steps the state plans to take to repay $2.6 billion to the feds for unemployment insurance benefits, JLF’s...
View ArticleCompromise on Racial Justice Act?
It appears from recent reports that the House may look to find a compromise on the Racial Justice Act (RJA). The current bill (SB 9), which Governor Perdue vetoed, would take out much of the RJA...
View ArticleEugenics Task Force Recommendations: Initial Thoughts
The Governor’s eugenics compensation task force voted on final recommendations today. I recently wrote about ways that the victims should be compensated. I do want to stress that the Task Force did an...
View ArticleCorrecting the context of the proposed sales tax hike
Governor Bev Perdue’s new push for an increase to the sales tax has come packaged with two misleading assertions (to put it gently). Terry Stoops, JLF’s education specialist, already did an excellent...
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Solve illegal immigration to North Carolina: let people come legally
Fox News Latino, a site with over two million unique visitors each month, yesterday published a commentary from me on how to address the decades-long feud over illegal immigration. If you follow this...
View ArticleCensorship in America: It’s real
The Institute for Justice takes a look at newspaper censorship where the Kentucky attorney general is going after syndicated columnist John Rosemond for, well, giving advice in his parenting advice...
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NC’s fiscal condition? We’re about in the middle of the pack
North Carolina state government’s fiscal condition didn’t rank near the top, nor near the bottom in five areas studied by the Mercatus Center. North Carolina ranked 38th in cash solvency, 24th in...
View ArticleYet another poll gives Romney an edge in the DNC’s host state
Another poll released today shows Republican Mitt Romney leading Democratic President Barack Obama in the battleground state of North Carolina. The High Point University/Fox 8 Poll gives Romney a 46...
View ArticleWhat’s the Recipe For a Thriving North Carolina?
Mitch Kokai suggests the path forward to continue a thriving North Carolina in this Winston-Salem Journal story about the Triad’s unemployment rate and the North Carolina economy. Mitch Kokai, policy...
View ArticlePennsylvania to approve medical marijuana. Will it ever happen in N.C.?
Is it time for North Carolina to get into the “weeds?” Nationally, wrote the CJ’s Kari Travis, The Marijuana Effective Drug Study Act of 2017, sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would simplify...
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U.S. Housing Market Sees Biggest Drop Since 2008
After the last couple of years have seen sky rocking home prices, the U.S. housing market just had its biggest drop since 2008, when the Great Recession first began. This raises some additional fears...
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Three Ways Government Subsidies Ruin the Marketplace
Government subsidies involve policymakers using your money to prop up politically chosen initiativesPolicymakers speak as if using your money to chase lofty, vague ends is morally superior to your...
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Testimony for Removing the Literacy Test from North Carolina’s Constitution
I spoke in favor of House Bill 44, removing the literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution at a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee on the morning of March 1. My prepared comments are...
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Cancel Culture Is Alive and Well in North Carolina, Continued
In a previous blogpost I reported on cancellations at two North Carolina educational institutions. Today I’m sorry to have to report on another. The victim in this case is Stephen Porter, a tenured...
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Back to School, but Still No Parents Bill of Rights
As the first day of school fast approaches, parents may once more find themselves taking a backseat in their children’s educational journey, at least for the time being. Earlier this year,...
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