NC Spin Articles


Still not prosperous

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 29, 2015. A report published last week adds grim context to good news about North Carolina’s 5.4 percent unemployment rate. While more people are working...    Read More

April 29, 2015



Good cop, bad cop with Pat McCrory

When it comes to the treatment of Gov. Pat McCrory's administration, the House often is the good cop, and the Senate is the bad cop. Or maybe the Senate is the strict parent, while the House is more...    Read More

April 29, 2015

Fallacies impede sound policy

Those who advocate rational public policy, based on a thorough understanding of the principles of human action and the benefits of voluntary exchange, are bound to be disappointed much of the time...    Read More

by John Hood   |   April 29, 2015



False equivalence

John Drescher of the N&O called foul on Governor McCrory’s public-records stonewalling. But will the media referees let McCrory manufacture a counterpunch against Roy Cooper? It’s called “false...    Read More

April 28, 2015

A shortsighted view

Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 28, 2015. Pictures don’t lie. A bystander’s cellphone video of a North Charleston, S.C., police officer’s fatal shooting on April 4 of a black motorist...    Read More

April 28, 2015



Why has North Carolina recovered faster?

The economic world doesn’t treat everyone and everything equally. We clearly see this in the on-going debates about income inequality, CEO pay, the minimum wage and taxes. Another way we see this is...    Read More

April 28, 2015