Month: February 2023
February 25th, 2025 Happy Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us again for what we hope will be time well spent as we take a smart look at an important topic – federal spending. In one of Dolly Parton’s many philanthropic endeavors there is a program, “Imagination Library,” that sends high quality books to children from…
Read MoreFebruary 18th, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. It doesn’t appear that Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence feature, ChatGPT, has yet obtained the nuclear codes as it threatened to do earlier this week. That’s a good reason to seize the day. We’re talking this morning about intellectual diversity at North Carolina’s public universities, and we’re doing it for two reasons:…
Read MoreFebruary 11th, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. Hopefully soon, you’ll be looking up in the North Carolina sky not in search of a Chinese balloon, but of an American-made supersonic commercial jet. Late last month, Boom Supersonic broke ground on its “Overture Superfactory” to start production on what is expected to be the world’s fastest jetliner, opening up…
Read MoreFebruary 4th, 2023 Happy Saturday morning. Thanks for joining us. Today we’re talking about the consequences of the no-holds-barred litigation strategies of opponents to voter ID and redistricting policies. They won major legal victories that forced Republicans to severely moderate on both fronts. But the litigious activists couldn’t leave well enough alone. They plowed the…
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