NC Spin Articles


Medical care doesn't have to be expensive

Obamacare’s third annual enrollment period for health insurance is officially underway. Americans who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance, are self-employed, or have been...    Read More

November 17, 2015

Social Security under siege

The political debates are totally dishonest in regard to Social Security. Ponzi scheme or not, the problem is the funds were moved from a private account to the general Treasury during the Lyndon B...    Read More

November 16, 2015


Open government? Not here, not hardly anywhere

Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, November 16, 2015. How open and honest is state government in North Carolina? Not very, according to a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. The center's...    Read More

November 16, 2015


Government gets poor data

Politicians have two main rhetorical tools as their disposal. When they want to build rapport with voters, they pull out a trusty anecdote — often about an impoverished childhood, an upwardly mobile...    Read More

by John Hood   |   November 16, 2015


Feeling the heat

Governor McCrory is in hot water, and his spokesman sounds like a teapot on a hot stove. Democratic Rep. Larry Hall said of Prison-Gate, “It’s obvious they went to great lengths to ensure this...    Read More

November 14, 2015

The Friday follies

An important question McCrory hasn’t answered about the pay to play scandal The troubling pay to play scandal swirling around the McCrory Administration shows no signs of going away. Next week a...    Read More

by Chris Fitzsimon   |   November 14, 2015

A new narrative for public education

North Carolina Democrats seem poised to make education the centerpiece of the 2016 campaign. And why not? Per pupil spending is among the lowest in the nation, teachers are leaving for other...    Read More

November 14, 2015


Wealth gap wides between generations

Forget the Marxist adage about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The emerging divide is an age-related one: The old are getting richer and the young are getting poorer. A recent...    Read More

November 14, 2015