David Isay started Storycorps nearly years ago as a way for people to memorialize their feelings about someone close to them through recorded discussions One Small Step is an offshoot of Storycorps and employs some of the same techniques but the goal is very different This project was conceived as a small way to begin to get us out of what Isay calls the Hate Industrial Complex meaning the media on all sides of the political spectrum profiting from our current culture of contempt for one another Learn more about your ad choices Visit megaphone fm adchoices [... more]

As Gov Roy Cooper signed into law a compromise between craft brewers and N C beer distributors several other proposed alcohol reforms remain in play within the General Assembly Rick Henderson Carolina Journal editor-in-chief analyzes the prospects for additional reforms during this legislative session As Medicaid expansion continues to play a major role in this year's legislative debates State Auditor Beth Wood is drawing attention to disturbing findings her auditors have issued in connection with North Carolina's existing multibillion-dollar Medicaid program Wood explains why she is raising questions about management of existing Medicaid dollars North Carolina's craft brewers and the [... more]

Socialism is an all-encompassing worldview which believes a bigger more intrusive government ordering every aspect of life will result in a better more equitable future for all The structure for socialism can be attributed to Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels in their book The Communist Manifesto Unfortunately the worldview of socialism and communism didn't die with the fall of the Soviet Union or the death of Lenin Stalin Mao Hitler or Castro In fact socialism and communism seem to be the natural bent of unregenerate mankind to achieve an earthly utopia through global government Socialism is alive and well in [... more]

This week on Family Policy Matters NC Family President John L Rustin speaks with David Lapp who is the lead organizer for a group entitled Better Angels They discuss his efforts to reunite America by helping Americans to move past hostility and insults and find common ground across the political spectrum in order to achieve that foundational goal of our American Constitution which is to form a more perfect union [... more]

What to make of the conflict in Charlottesville The mainstream media blamed one side for the recent violence in Charlottesville Nazis and White Supremacists Their worldview is unbiblical and reprehensible Period But so is the group they were battling Whom the media innocuously termed counter-protesters are actually a violent revolutionary Communist-Anarchist group called Antifa short for antifascist [... more]

A Wallace couple is heading to federal prison for its role in defrauding the federal government of millions of dollars in phony tax refunds Carolina Journal has been documenting the tax fraud story of Perfecto Ruano and Walda Luna in a series of articles dating back to February Editor-in-chief Rick Henderson assesses the resolution of the case which involved charges of million in refund fraud People from across the political spectrum want to see improvement in North Carolina's public schools Former state Rep Marcus Brandon approaches that goal now as executive director of the education advocacy group Carolina CAN Brandon [... more]