There is currently a bill in the North Carolina Senate that will repeal the requirement to buy a permit from the local sheriff’s office before buying a pistol or crossbow.  This can only be described as a good thing.  There is little reason that law abiding citizens should have their rights infringed by the government. [...]

The Washingon Post is reporting; BERLIN, April 21 — European prosecutors are likely to investigate CIA and Bush administration officials on suspicion of violating an international ban on torture if they are not held legally accountable at home, according to U.N. officials and human rights lawyers. This, coming from Europe and the United Nations.  The [...]

I have watched with detached amusement the hubub around Carrie Prejean’s Miss USA answer to the question of whether or not the states should allow homosexual marriage “I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman,” she said on the live broadcast. “No offense to anybody out there, [...]

The idea of negative interest rates may strike some people as absurd, the concoction of some impractical theorist. Perhaps it is. But remember this: Early mathematicians thought that the idea of negative numbers was absurd. Today, these numbers are commonplace. Even children can be taught that some problems (such as 2x + 6 = 0) [...]

We’re talking about the Islamic Republic of Iran here, why are people so shocked that somebody would be a victim of a show trial there? A U.S. journalist in Iran was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage, her father, lawyer and news reports said Saturday — a sentence that prompted denunciation from the [...]

John McCain’s top adviser from the presidential campaign urged fellow Republicans on Friday to warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the “religious party” with its opposition to same-sex marriage. And people wonder why McCain lost.  This statement is so completely out of touch with a lot of the Republican [...]

WRAL is reporting that: Construction on the remainder of North Carolina’s first toll road could begin as early as June. North Carolina already has higher gas taxes than any of our neighboring states.  Those gas taxes are supposed to PAY FOR ROADS. There have now been 3 Democratic administrations in Raleigh that have bled us [...]

John 20:1-20 Now on the first {day} of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it *was still dark, and *saw the stone {already} taken away from the tomb. Jhn 20:2 So she *ran and *came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and *said to them, “They [...]

The UN Human Rights Commission is a joke, and has been a joke, and will continue to be a joke.  In fact, the whole UN is a farce. But Jonah Goldberg has nailed them with a particularly good one liner in his column from today: Joining the Muslim countries are such stalwarts of human rights [...]

Ted Stevens, Republican Senator from Alaska, has been exonerated of any wrongdoing, with the judge going so far as to say: “In nearly 25 years on the bench, I’ve never seen anything approaching the misdeeds and the misconduct I have seen in this case,” U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan told a packed courtroom. Ted [...]