NC Spin Articles

N&O takes a toll on the truth

By now, most of us have come to expect the left-wing bias of the Raleigh News & Observer. Part of that bias includes efforts to promote their chosen narrative by presenting questionable data while...    Read More

December 18, 2014

Warren and Webb

Conventional wisdom says only two people can stop Hillary Clinton from the nomination in 2016: Hillary herself and Bill Clinton.   But two other people embody a potential problem: Senator Elizabeth...    Read More

December 18, 2014

He gets no respect

He’d been through, he said, the ordeal of sitting for a whole hour and fifteen minutes under hot lights, sweating, answering questions but then, he added, when he saw the interview on TV he had...    Read More

December 18, 2014


Say yes, already

Editorial Greensboro News-Record, December 18, 2014. One of the best policy decisions North Carolina can make in 2015 is to expand Medicaid coverage. The foolishness of refusing to do so already is...    Read More

December 18, 2014

Public pension reforms on the way?

Sean Higgins reports for the Washington Examiner that a new Republican-led U.S. Senate could instigate changes for state and local public pension programs. The incoming Republican majority in the...    Read More

December 18, 2014



What's the counterargument to justice for all?

There is something dangerously Orwellian about a group of UNC Board of Governors complaining about the lack of “diversity of opinion” at two centers connected to the UNC School of Law that receive...    Read More

December 18, 2014

McCrory blasts Associated Press

The day after a wire service reported that North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory received a six-figure stock payout from an online mortgage broker that is regulated by the state, the governor’s emphatic...    Read More

December 18, 2014

NC's Congressional power shortage

When Republican Sen. Richard Burr becomes chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in January, it will be the first major Senate committee chairmanship held by a Tar Heel since the retirement of...    Read More

December 18, 2014


To help the poor or boost self-image

by Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation, December 18, 2014. What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler: Why do those who seem most...    Read More

December 18, 2014