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Right now, a massive conversation has been launched about the value and danger of social media. Most of that conversation has centered around two specific problems: the first is privacy; the second is manipulation
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 12:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Shakespeare suggested in "As You Like It" that "all the world's a stage." Now, 400 years later, our constitutional system faces threats from political "actors" who are treating the Bard's words too literally
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 3:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The School Safety Committee will hold their first meeting on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 10:00 AM in the Beaufort County Community College Boardroom located in Building 10
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 3:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump will welcome Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan to Mar-a-Lago from April 17-18, 2018
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 3:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As Carolina Journal readers know, North Carolina Republicans have raised objections to Gov. Cooper’s Atlantic Cost Pipeline fund
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 3:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today under Governor Roy Cooper's direction, Democrat appointees on the new State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement have chosen to reject transparency
Published: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 @ 10:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners will hold their annual joint meeting with the Beaufort County Community College Board of Trustees on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 8:30 AM at Beaufort County Community College in the multi-purpose room of Building 10
Published: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 @ 9:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump spoke today with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to discuss regional developments and the strategic partnership between the United States and Turkey
Published: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 @ 9:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Weeks ago, President Trump announced new tariffs on steel and aluminum, supposedly in an effort to jog the American economy
Published: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 @ 9:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In the 1969 parody Support Your Local Sheriff!, James Garner plays a skilled but somewhat-disreputable gunslinger who stumbles his way into the job of sheriff in a Colorado frontier town
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have bunches of images from my travels across North Carolina, many that I have never shared. Often, my travel partner (my wife, Lynn, and I ) like to take hikes to rather remote places and we take pictures: me with my Canon DSLR, and she with her fine phone's camera.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 1:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On 03-21-2018, The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Paul Dildy, 57 years of age, of 521 E. 9th Street in Washington, Sandra Foreman, 36 years of age, of 521 E. 9th Street in Washington and William Branch, 21 years of age, of 52 Berts Farm Road in Chocowinity
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 9:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump will award the Medal of Honor to then-First Lieutenant Garlin M. Conner, U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry during World War II at a ceremony at the White House.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 9:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Political leanings and affectations ebb and flow depending on who the neophyte politician talks to; even, I know when to keep my mouth shut for I will reveal the obvious should I speak too much.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 9:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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What's the matter with kids today? What makes them such noisy, crazy, dirty, lazy loafers? You can talk and talk until your face is blue, but they still just do what they want to do
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 4:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today is the first day, of spring break. Beyond me lies a whole week to meander through and do what I deem fit.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 4:17 am
By: Michele Rhem
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And yet hordes of people flock to Facebook for the connectivity, supplied by the World Wide Web, to friends - some real, some imagined - but all easily accessible by a platform that many consider free, moreover, many do not understand.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 3:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell is raising red flags about a proposed merger between publicly owned ECU Physicians, the medical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, and Vidant Medical Group, a private entity that would assume controlling interest
Published: Sunday, April 1st, 2018 @ 12:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, The New York Times once again revealed the ultimate agenda of gun control proponents in the United States: a full-scale gun grab. The charge was led on the op-ed page by former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who thankfully no longer wields power in the judiciary.
Published: Sunday, April 1st, 2018 @ 12:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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It just got easier for children in North Carolina to qualify for a Special Needs Education Savings Account
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 3:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2012, Cynthia and Robert Gifford, a Christian couple who owned a farm in upstate New York where marriage receptions were often held, politely refused to hold a gay marriage on the premises when a lesbian couple targeted their farm as their venue of choice.
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 8:22 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has put out a long range transit plan for the state that calls for a “connected statewide network” and “public bus lines reaching out into rural part of the state”.
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 8:22 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week was much of his own making; poor deeds past come to light and finding our nation similarly lacking.
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 7:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation allowing counties to impose an additional quarter-cent sales tax to raise revenue within their jurisdictions
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 7:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On 03-16-2018, The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested William Lawrence LaBarge, 24 years of age, of 2838 Woodstock Road in Belhaven
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 7:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, the President signed into law
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 2:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is almost April and still, we wait for tulips. The evenings in March still warrant a blanket and frost blankets the fields of winter wheat, in the first hours, of the day.
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 1:19 am
By: Michele Rhem
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A new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation ranks Raleigh 11th out of 20 cities for ease in operating food trucks within city limits. It’s the only North Carolina city ranked in the report
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 1:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"You ain't from around here, are you?" This question may not be grammatically correct but it is an increasingly accurate observation about our state. According to the Carolina Population Center
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 1:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The long, hard slog for the North Carolina Green Party is over. The state officially recognized the Green Party, allowing its candidates to appear on state ballots
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 4:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday, President Trump attacked Amazon, a company he has long targeted thanks to its ownership by Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 4:24 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A couple of weeks ago, I argued that North Carolina’s legislature should “one-up” Congress and the Trump administration when it comes to tax reform by abolishing the state’s capital gains tax.
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 4:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald J. Trump has fulfilled his promise to fight for American workers and businesses in an amended trade deal with South Korea
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 2:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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