Grading idea flunks
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, December 18, 2014. In our continuing debate over how well our public schools serve our children and the community, politicians and others obsess over ways to gauge... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Elizabeth Warren: Enough is enough on bailouts
Excerpt from a speech U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., made on the Senate floor regarding bank regulations in the omnibus budget bill: Democrats don’t like Wall Street bailouts. Republicans... Read More
Maybe not the best idea
About a week ago the Governor went on a tear about 60 Minutes, saying Leslie Stahl had done him wrong; that he’d sat sweating under the hot lights for an hour answering questions but she hadn’t... Read More
The obvious newsmaker of the year for North Carolina
It’s the time of the year when newspapers and websites and television talk shows are busy with their year-in-review features, looking back at the people and events of 2014 with many of them picking... Read More
Up in smoke
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, December 19, 2014. North Carolina has plenty of money to pay for effective smoking-prevent programs. It just chooses to spend it on other things. Our state slipped... Read More
McCrory a man of honesty
The front-page news story “ Tree.com payouts to McCrory questioned” on a stock payout to Gov. Pat McCrory is a new all-time low and smacks of biased reporting by The Associated Press. The... Read More
The courts earned their keep in 2014
It was a game of runs in state and federal courts here in 2014 as state lawmakers pulled out all stops and spent millions in taxpayer’s dollars to stave off challenges to their conservative agenda... Read More
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
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
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
