Why should NC halt Syrian influx?
Gov. Pat McCrory has asked the federal government to stop sending Syrians to resettle in North Carolina, until NC officials are assured there are no terrorists mingled with innocent refugees. Speaking... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Burr: Obama has no strategy to defeat ISIS
President Obama has no strategy to defeat ISIS, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) told John Dickerson, host of the CBS news program “Face the Nation” Sunday morning... Read More
Paris attacks a warning to protect the home front
Editorial by Burlington Times-News, November 16, 2015. On a day President Obama admitted the terrorist attacks in Paris represented a “sickening setback” in America’s battle against the Islamic... Read More
McCrory's "ketchup is a vegetable" unemployment insurance system
NC finds the solution to replenishing its unemployment fund: Don’t help the unemployed Thirty-four years ago, the administration of President Ronald Reagan stirred up one of the great domestic... Read More
Weak as water
How do you figure it? Obama’s sending fifty soldiers to Iraq to whip ISIS. Fifty soldiers. We’re at war with the craziest bunch of mean-eyed terrorists anyone’s laid eyes on since Genghis Khan... Read More
Give back Keith contributions
When video sweepstakes executive Chase Burns sent about $270,000 in campaign donations to dozens of North Carolina state lawmakers and Gov. Pat McCrory in 2012, it was clear what he wanted. He wanted... Read More
We must recognize and stop ISIS' global threat
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, November 17, 2015. In the city named for the Marquis de Lafayette, we get the outrage, the sadness, the urge to strike back against the terror attacks last week in... Read More
Not how we should be
The face you see is that of Daniel Patrick Boyd, who headed a North Carolina-based jihadist group until the FBI put an end to his activities. He's pulling time in a federal prison in Florida. "Boyd... Read More
Per-pupil spending in NC highest since 2011
Public school advocacy groups are pointing out that inflation-adjusted per-student spending is lower than it was before the Great Recession. But I do not believe that ignoring the recession makes for... Read More
UNC BOG split on pay raises to chancellors
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Monday ?released a short summary of a controversial closed-door meeting during which the panel awarded raises to a dozen of the system's... Read More
