NC Spin Articles

Democrats loose with labels, fast with facts

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion,” Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan reportedly observed, “but not his own facts.” Today, that sharp rebuke sounds like the description of a...    Read More

March 12, 2014


Climate change links vanish from DENR website

Links and documents about climate change have recently disappeared from the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources website. As recently as Jan. 21, information about climate change was...    Read More

March 12, 2014


Students must read to achieve

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. I’m talking about the political struggle over North Carolina’s 3rd grade reading standard, not the violent struggle between Paul Newman and the...    Read More

by John Hood   |   March 12, 2014

Yet another corporate tax cut?

A proposed change in the way North Carolina taxes multistate corporations would fail to achieve its goal of boosting investment and job creation, and instead result in revenue loss that would threaten...    Read More

March 11, 2014

Buying pizza and repairing buildings

Back in 2000 or 2001, a state legislator named Art Pope was waiving around a list in a House committee meeting, demanding that the Democrats in charge take note. The list contained expenses paid by...    Read More

March 11, 2014


Homeless

Will Randy Voller leave the Democratic Party homeless? What a tribute to his leadership.   WRAL reports: “An Executive Council member…said embattled party Chairman Randy Voller told members the...    Read More

March 11, 2014

A side step

It’s tough to stay a step ahead of a smart bureaucrat.    About a week ago I wrote an article explaining how what a bureaucrat wants (for himself) and what’s best for public education isn’t...    Read More

March 11, 2014

Expand Community Colleges

Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, March 8, 2014. There are signs that market forces are responding to the increasingly difficult financial burden that higher education places upon families of...    Read More

March 11, 2014