I love North Carolina, the state of my birth. I’m a Tar Heel born and bred. Let me tell you a few facts about its history. Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1585-7 colony on Roanoke Island failed, so most of the state’s first European settlers migrated to North Carolina from Virginia a few decades after the 1607 […]
Nothing arouses more heated rhetoric than the subject of abortion. In 2020 the Supreme Court overrode Roe v Wade, and decisions on the availability of abortion are now up to each state. Some will place severe restrictions on abortions, others much less so. In addition to allowing women to abort throughout the nine months of […]
The first electrically powered air-conditioning unit was developed in 1901. Prior to mid-century the cost of air-conditioning units tended to be prohibitively high for individual households. Innovations in the latter half of the 1900s lowered costs and allowed for more ubiquitous use. In many parts of the country most homes now have window units or […]
The Carolina Beach Yacht Basin We are now in the middle of another hurricane season. Beach dwellers along our Atlantic and Gulf coasts brace themselves for another possible hit. This is a photograph of the yacht basin at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, circa 2020. The view is almost directly south. On the left is a […]
Kamala Harris recently announced her solution to the inflation problem. She would establish price controls along with very strong laws against price gouging. Those proposals are straight out of a Marxist play book. They wouldn’t work. They never do. Argentina and Venezuela proved that. In a capitalist society such as ours, prices are determined by […]
I attend two discussion forums. We usually have about 20 persons in attendance in each forum.. One is all male, the other is mixed male and female. Both forums have a preponderance of anti-Trumpers. I live in a very liberal county in a very liberal state. Recently I exchanged e-mails with a member of the […]
CAMPAIGN ISSUES What are the critical issues in this Presidential campaign? Trump has expressed his thoughts on this subject frequently, though not with the clarity we might wish. Harris has remained silent since her nomination, so we must evaluate her position based on past statements. Here I describe some of the major issues and my […]
On January 6, 2021, Cassidy Hutchinson was working in the office of Mark Meadows, President Trump’s Chief of Staff. Cassidy is evidently a young woman of conscience, and she was deeply disturbed by the events of that day. There were other workers in the Trump administration who were perhaps equally concerned, and rumors about the […]
With Kamala’s choice of Minnesota Governor Walz as her running mate, the Presidential campaign is now underway. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris will not submit herself to in-depth interviews, so we do not know her current positions on the major issues confronting our country. All we can do is rely on her past record and statements, and […]
This morning my friend Todd told me of his viewing Trump’s Atlanta rally and his disappointment that Trump cannot seem to concentrate on the essential issues in this campaign. Four years ago, shortly before the 2020 election campaign, I wrote about Trump’s communication problems. I wrote about them again on June 2, 2024. This is […]
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