Hard-working teachers deserve job security
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, October 29, 2013. North Carolina’s judicial branch will decide if the legislature acted legally when it ended job protections for public school teachers and... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Business, conservatives push lawmakers on immigration
An unorthodox coalition of conservative leaders – pastors, tech moguls, tea party farmers and the sheriff from Fresno County, Calif. – converged Tuesday on Washington to make the conservative case... Read More
Politically motivated redistricting is bad for the voters and for democracy
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, October 28, 2013. If a poker buddy stacked the cards to win the game, you'd call him out for cheating. In North Carolina, though, it's just how the game is played... Read More
The Democratic mind
Yesterday, a letter-to-the-editor in the News & Observerresponded to Rob Christensen’s column from last week, “A look inside the GOP mind.” The author asks what’s inside the Democratic mind... Read More
Even red states making Obamacare work
It’s becoming clear that the states that embraced the Affordable Care Act are having success, while those who didn’t, like N.C., are struggling. Here are two interesting examples of red states... Read More
Academic freedom or shrill partisanship?
by Frances DeLuca (Civitas Institute) and Jane Shaw (Pope Center for Higher Education), October 21, 2013. In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to “make sure that we are talking... Read More
Ads hit red-state Democrats on Obamacare
by Katie Glueck, Politico, October 28, 2013. Americans for Prosperity is targeting two red-state Democrats over Obamacare with a pricey new ad buy that launches this week. The conservative group... Read More
Law and justice aren't the same thing
The judge, after I asked about Eric Holder’s lawsuit, grunted and said,Whatever gave you the idea that law and justice are the same thing – the law can be a darn peculiar beast. Not long ago... Read More
Public-private partnerships the wrong fix for more jobs
Editorial by News and Observer, October 28, 2013. Gov. Pat McCrory often declares that some part of state government is “broken” and that his task is to fix it. The problem is that, as... Read More
McCrory rejects calls for special session to expand Medicaid
Gov. Pat McCrory rejected a call to convene a special legislative session to add more low-income residents to the state and federal health insurance program. His comments came in response to a news... Read More
