History revisited at Kinston museum
North Carolina didn’t want to secede from the Union to join the Confederacy, but when President Lincoln mandated that our state send troops to fight for the Union in the Civil War our leaders chose... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Republicans must make their tax-reform plan work
Editorial, Winston-Salem Journal, July 18, 2013. With the announcement that they have agreed on a new tax-reform package, Republican legislative leaders and Gov. Pat McCrory have disproved one... Read More
Surrender, Charlotte
One of the most baffling stories I've followed out of Raleigh this year -- and there have been plenty -- has been the legislature's determination to take Charlotte-Douglas International Airport from... Read More
Ambition, cronyism and hypocrisy
Right after Pat McCrory got elected, he like to say that government was going to treat citizens like customers. Now, we see what kind of business he’s running, or at least helping run. It’s one... Read More
What Libertarians offer NC: Simplicity
As the majority party in the General Assembly, Republicans have the power to pass any legislation, but might does not make right. Our democratic system of government depends on allowing everyone’s... Read More
Tillis tries, but can't serve two masters
Charlotte Observer Editorial, July 18, 2013. North Carolina’s House of Representatives took action on 36 bills Wednesday. They included a package of tax cuts totaling more than $2.4 billion over the... Read More
Find a better way to create rural county jobs
Editorial from Fayetteville Observer, July 17, 2013. There are few things that North Carolina needs more than jobs. With our unemployment rate seemingly immovable and one of the worst in the nation... Read More
Catch-all regulatory bill is too convoluted
From Winston-Salem Journal editorial, July 16, 2013. It seems like every third bill discussed in Raleigh this year carries “reform” in its title. But the latest so-called reform bill makes the... Read More
The Shoot First Law
Editorial from Greensboro News-Record, July 17, 2013. If George Zimmerman had shot and killed Trayvon Martin in North Carolina instead of in Florida, he still might have been acquitted of any criminal... Read More
Taxes, jobs and education
Thankful yet? You get a tax cut. And North Carolinians get more jobs. At least, that’s the theory. Cary Republican Rep. Nelson Dollar called it the “jobs bill of a generation.” Sen. Josh... Read More
