NC Spin Articles

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

November 17, 2015

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

November 17, 2015

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

November 17, 2015


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

November 17, 2015


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