The scramble on the right continues
The folks on the Right are scrambling these days with their political narrative and talking points about the state budget that the Republican General Assembly and Governor Pat McCrory came up with... Read More
NC Spin Articles
NC GOP leaders spend big on private lawyers
Editorial by News and Observer, November 19, 2013. At long last North Carolina’s Republican leaders have a jobs-creation plan that really works. Unfortunately, it applies only to lawyers and... Read More
Problems remain with NC’s Medicaid payment system
State officials said the troubled Medicaid billing system NC Tracks is operating more smoothly, but lawmakers said it still has significant problems. Doctors, hospitals and others who treat Medicaid... Read More
Blue Cross NC to raise individual rates by as much as 24% on reinstated health plans
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said Tuesday it will raise rates as much as 24 percent on 2013 individual health insurance plans that are being extended next year. The increase is double... Read More
Conservatives Need to Step Up to Improve N.C. Education
There’s nothing worse than a complainer — except a complainer who expects someone else to solve a problem. So I have a challenge for conservatives who, with good reason, rail against the state of... Read More
The real reasons insurers are canceling policies
Now that President Obama has said it's OK with him if insurance companies keep their policyholders in health plans that don't meet the standards established by the Affordable Care Act, at least for... Read More
The war against achievement
by Thomas Sowell, published in Real Clear Politics, November 19, 2013. A friend recently sent me a link to an inspiring video about an upbeat young black man who was born without arms. It showed... Read More
Whither Obamacare
Judging from Obamacare, Democrats can’t make government work. Judging from the October shutdown, Republicans don’t want it to work. What’s a democracy to do? Obamacare is essentially an old... Read More
Not a vice to be "unmanageable"
Up in the gilded halls of Congress the Tea Partiers went on a tear last month voting against Debt Ceiling increases and budgets that didn’t cut spending but the whole proposition of fighting it out... Read More
No I-95 improvements unless legislature acts
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, November 19, 2013. The money isn't there. You can scan the state budget all day long, but you won't find $4.5 billion in loose change for widening and improving... Read More
