Left misleads on Carolina Comeback
Democrats and liberal commentators have been loudly and gleefully attacking Donald Trump and his campaign operatives for getting their chronologies wrong — for blaming the president for the onset of... Read More
NC Spin Articles
No confusion at all
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, August 18, 2016. This election season hasn’t given us many laughs, so we’re grateful to Gov. Pat McCrory for this one: “Allowing the Fourth Circuit’s... Read More
State pension fund underfunded, losing money
North Carolina’s public employees retirement system is underfunded, bled more than $2 billion in red ink in the most recent 12-month period reported, and is outperformed by most other states, data... Read More
Looking ahead to 2017
Over the last six years, bold, courageous North Carolina leaders have been willing to take risks, push the envelope, and offer unlimited opportunities for education freedom, for financial security... Read More
Hard to win after beating the party establishment in the primaries
Is Donald Trump really a unique political candidate? Did North Carolina ever have anybody in politics who compares with him? When I asked that question in a column last year, I suggested U.S. Senator... Read More
Trump's voter mobilization strategy
Much has been made about the role that white voters will play in this year’s election, especially those without a college education who are seen as the backbone of Donald Trump's support. With the... Read More
The destructive impact of North Carolina's minimum wage
Editor’s note: As the 2016 election season in North Carolina shifts into high gear, few issues are subject to fiercer debate than the state of the economy and the wellbeing of average North Carolina... Read More
Lesser evils
Let Hillary pack the Supreme Court, Tom said, and the country’s kaput. And that’s the way he sees it: Voting for Hillary’s wrong. Voting for Trump’s wrong. But voting for Trump is less wrong... Read More
The follies
The falling credibility of the McCrory Administration in drinking water scandal The McCrory Administration has a big problem on its hands—and so do people living near leaking coal ash ponds who are... Read More
Legislators rebuked yet again
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, August 14, 2016. Shortly after Republicans took control of the General Assembly in the 2010 elections, Sen. Bob Rucho of Mecklenburg County was put in charge of... Read More
