The Friday follies
A puzzling move on a bad idea for the state One of the more puzzling developments of this week was the decision by Senate leaders to delay consideration until next Saturday of a proposal to put a... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Let's name gun safety bill after Orlando victims
Guns do not kill people. People kill people. If you can say that with a straight face and truly believe it in your heart after the recent horror in Orlando, then you are probably not going to like... Read More
The right to bully
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, June 18, 2016. Bullying has been around forever, but the internet and social media can raise it to new levels of torment. Did the authors of the First Amendment... Read More
Voting for the devil?
You would vote for the devil if he were a Democrat, wouldn’t you?” Thus begins an old story that makes fun of an old-time party-loyal, “yellow-dog” Democrat. His friend was teasing him about... Read More
Hunting and fishing don't belong in the Constitution
We hold it to be self-evident that all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the... Read More
The misleading campaign to wring more profit out of the healthcare system
One of the top priorities of the folks on the Right this legislative session is to unleash the power of the free market to solve all of our health care problems. That’s the way they tell it anyway... Read More
Avoid big problems, pull tuition bill from budget
Editorial by The Daily Reflector, June 16, 2016. The N.C. General Assembly recently pulled three of the state’s historically black universities from its bill to lower tuition to $500 per semester at... Read More
Senate pulls tax-limiting amendment from calendar
An effort to cap the state income tax rate was removed quietly from the Senate’s calendar on Wednesday, one day after that body’s Finance Committee gave the proposed change to the N.C... Read More
Breaking down November's voting pool
With any general election, there are two aspects that most political analysts will start to evaluate: the composition of the possible electorate (‘who shows up’) and the behavior of that possible... Read More
It's time to scrap Certificate of Need laws
When the state sold the Dorothea Dix property to the city of Raleigh for $52 million last year, part of the deal was that proceeds from the sale would be used for mental health services. There is... Read More
