On Sept. 18, 2024, the day this piece publishes, the North Carolina Supreme Court will consider McKinney v. Goins. Child sex-abuse victims filed suit against their high school wrestling coach and the Gaston County Board of Education. During the victims’ time at East Gaston High School in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, the coach subjected […]

This article is written by by Kristen Scatton and was published on December 18, 2023 on Intelligent.com For individuals previously incarcerated, earning a college degree can be one of the best ways to move forward and decrease their odds of returning to prison. While pursuing higher education after incarceration may have a few extra steps and restrictions, […]

Many of my clients and friends have asked me whether our justice and election systems are broken. My entire adult life has been lived in North Carolina so I will share what I know from my experience here. For you to evaluate whether my opinion is informed you need to know a bit of my […]

Some legislators have proposed that the General Assembly send some tax money back to us. That sounds like fun. I have another idea: Use whatever money is in mind to pay down state debt. State debt currently stands at $8 billion. This would not change the state balance sheet. It would reduce the chance of […]

On April 9, 2024, the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a statute criminalizing those who perform abortions, except to preserve the life of the mother. The blogosphere and the networks were aghast that this statute was originally adopted in 1864. Is a statute better because its origins are of old, or is it worse? Liberals can’t […]

There is confusion on what a human embryo is. It is not sperm. It is not an egg. The very first two sentences of “The Developing Human — Clinically Oriented Embryology, (2nd ed 1977)” by Keith Moore states: “Development is a continuous process that begins when an oocyte (ovum) is fertilized by a spermatozoon and […]

English is the world’s language of culture and commerce. It is always changing. Try reading Shakespeare or the King James Bible (1611). These changes have real life consequences. Other transitions have occurred in the last decade. Other changes took centuries: It is not just words. The overuse of the passive voice can obscure the truth. […]