Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, March 24, 2016. President Barack Obama’s decision to steer new offshore oil exploration away from North Carolina stirred two very different responses from... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 23, 2016. Today’s special legislation session is fueled by red-hot emotion. The public should demand cool reason instead. Lawmakers clamoring to overturn a... Read More
Three hours after John Davis released his optimistic column on Governor McCrory’s re-election chances, based mostly on the successful passage of the $2 billion bond issue on March 15, I wrote John... Read More
A proposal that codifies a statewide nondiscrimination policy in employment and public accommodations and prohibits North Carolina cities or towns from enacting stricter guidelines was signed into law... Read More
When it comes to politics, North Carolina is a closely divided state in many ways. Look at party, for instance. According to an early-March poll for WRAL-TV, 32 percent of registered voters in our... Read More
The North Carolina General Assembly will return to Raleigh for a special session Wednesday aimed at addressing Charlotte’s recent city-wide bathroom ordinance. House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings... Read More
Good ol’ Harry Reid gave the Republican Party hell last week for creating its Trump Frankenstein monster. Reid just didn’t go far enough. In a Washington speech, “Give ‘em hell” Harry said... Read More
Much ink has been spilled on the Donald Trump phenomenon. Practitioners and the public seem obsessed with the guy, and pundits are analyzing every dimension of his presidential campaign. He is, after... Read More
Tyler Cowen, today’s John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society speaker, offers thoughts in his “Marginal Revolution” blog about Donald Trump and the future of the Republican Party. As the... Read More
