Protect election integrity
Law I signed ensures North Carolina will remain a national leader in ballot access. Imagine if the Transportation Security Administration decided airline passengers no longer need a photo ID... Read More
NC Spin Articles
If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person
You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad like murderer bad—but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best... Read More
N.C. lawmakers meet raucous crowd at Charlotte forum
by Jim Morill and Ely Portillo, The Charlotte Observer, August 29, 2013. Reflecting the tensions that marked North Carolina’s legislative session, seven Mecklenburg lawmakers sparred with each other... Read More
The Carolina Way: Speech is Free (only for leftists)
Fifty years ago, The University of North Carolina passed a Speaker Ban to clamp down on Marxist interlopers trying to poison the young skulls of mush matriculating in Chapel Hill. Of course, the... Read More
If you hated this session....
A long-time Raleigh veteran warns that next year's short legislative session could bring a “hopeless muddle” in the office of speaker Thom Tillis. I quote: “Tillis is forsaking the best... Read More
One and done
Pat McCrory just can’t help himself. When he meets with reporters, he tells them what he thinks sounds good, regardless of whether it’s true or not. Gary Pearce pointed out this traitearlier in... Read More
Shifting primary good for the state
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, August 27, 2013. Amid controversy over voter ID requirements and early voting changes and other modifications to North Carolina’s election statutes enacted by... Read More
2013 session may haunt GOP
Legislators will return to the capital next week to figure out what to do about Gov. Pat McCrory’s two vetoes. Then, the 2013 legislative session should be put to bed for good. No more bizarre bills... Read More
Obamacare: the reason fast-food workers are unhappy
WRAL misses the elephant in the room in dutifully playing its part in the messaging for a minimum-wage hike via covering fast-food workers’ self-defeating strike: “When I saw the strikes on TV... Read More
I am a victim of patient suppression
It's like voter suppression. Only it took place at medical offices. Yesterday I had my blood tested, and today I had a CT scan. In both places, I was required to show a driver's license – or, I... Read More
