from The Conference Board, October 29, 2013. The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had declined moderately in September, decreased sharply in October. The Index now stands at... Read More
Governor Pat McCrory and other supporters of the sweeping voter suppression law passed by the General Assembly this summer are working hard to make sure people don’t really understand how regressive... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 29, 2013. North Carolina’s judicial branch will decide if the legislature acted legally when it ended job protections for public school teachers and... Read More
An unorthodox coalition of conservative leaders – pastors, tech moguls, tea party farmers and the sheriff from Fresno County, Calif. – converged Tuesday on Washington to make the conservative case... Read More
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, October 28, 2013. If a poker buddy stacked the cards to win the game, you'd call him out for cheating. In North Carolina, though, it's just how the game is played... Read More
Yesterday, a letter-to-the-editor in the News & Observerresponded to Rob Christensen’s column from last week, “A look inside the GOP mind.” The author asks what’s inside the Democratic mind... Read More
It’s becoming clear that the states that embraced the Affordable Care Act are having success, while those who didn’t, like N.C., are struggling. Here are two interesting examples of red states... Read More
by Frances DeLuca (Civitas Institute) and Jane Shaw (Pope Center for Higher Education), October 21, 2013. In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to “make sure that we are talking... Read More
by Katie Glueck, Politico, October 28, 2013. Americans for Prosperity is targeting two red-state Democrats over Obamacare with a pricey new ad buy that launches this week. The conservative group... Read More
The judge, after I asked about Eric Holder’s lawsuit, grunted and said,Whatever gave you the idea that law and justice are the same thing – the law can be a darn peculiar beast. Not long ago... Read More
