The Pete Kaliner Show Podcast

In a column at North State Journal, Dennis Prager argues that society has largely recognized the need to control the natural tendency of boys towards physical aggression and predatory sexual behavior. However, he says we have not focused on raising girls to control THEIR natures. Specifically, girls have to learn to control their emotions. Just as the […]

In a campaign rally for people he misidentified, President Joe Biden claimed to have reduced the crime rate in Wilmington, Delaware with a single conversation; said we need to ban “weapons of war” but that those weapons are useless in war; called Congress the Parliament; and spread misinformation about the speed of bullets.

The boom that North Carolina has experienced in the past 12 years has been due to the fiscal reforms enacted by the GOP after it won the legislature in 2010. Until then, Democrats had controlled state government (and most local ones) since Reconstruction. Their record of low taxes and high growth have earned them the […]

Stephen Wiley is the North Carolina Republican House Caucus Director. His job is to get GOP candidates elected to the NC House of Representatives. He expects the economy to drive the election in November, and notes that no party in modern history has gained seats in a midterm election during a recession… except once. In […]

Defund the police turns out to be a terrible message for Democrats running for office. Vice President Kamala Harris promoted a Minnesota fund to bail out rioters – another of whom was just arrested for murder. Also, the Veep can’t figure out who pays for student debt cancelation.

The Democrat candidate for US Senate in North Carolina is trying to put distance between her campaign and the “Defund the Police” movement that infected the party over the past 2 years. Cheri Beasley held a news conference yesterday surrounded by about a dozen current and former law enforcement officials. She said, “I do not […]

The decades-long school funding lawsuit – referred to as Leandro – goes to the North Carolina Supreme Court tomorrow for oral arguments. Dr. Terry Stoops, Director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, says the lawsuit has been hijacked by leftist organizations by urging the courts to “circumvent lawmakers and order state […]

When reality doesn’t meet expectations, people become unhappy. And this theory applies to the Elite Overproduction Theory – which contends that “so many well-educated Millennials are unemployed, underemployed, or otherwise not achieving the high status they expect.” This overproduction of underachieving “elites” has prompted many to turn to Marxism and destabilize the society that they […]

There is a growing movement to restore “classical education.” As the Washington Examiner reports: “[G.K.] Chesterton articulates so well [this vision] of education being the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to the next,” Tate said. “But suddenly, there was nother we were passing down. Everything had been dismantled or deconstructed, […]

As the school buses get rolling across North Carolina, one elected official from Asheville is calling for teachers to strike if state lawmakers don’t use a budget surplus to increase teacher pay. Buncombe County Commissioner Amanda Edwards wrote on Facebook: “The time is right for a statewide teacher strike.” She predicted that K-12 employers would […]