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
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
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
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
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
NC to join 32 other states that don't fund driver's ed
Wake County school leaders (and likely school leaders across the state) are up in arms about the state's elimination of funding for driver's ed programs. Wake County school leaders warned Tuesday... Read More
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
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
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
