What we have today in federal budget parlance is a “notch baby” scenario. Anyone on Capitol Hill who suffered through the so-called “notch-baby” fiasco for Social Security recipients born between 1917 and 1921 will know […]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees struck a blow for free speech and thought at Carolina last week on Thursday, Jan. 25. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal […]
I grew up in the 1960s and crazy early 1970s. Somehow it got into my young head that becoming an antitrust lawyer or one of consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s Raiders might be a fun way […]
It sure looked confusing for Republicans at the start of this Congress. One would have presumed all the negotiation and dickering could have been hammered out behind closed doors during the down months of November […]
We need more Howard Lees in public office. I got to know Howard through my brother, Dan. They are close friends because of their twin mutual interests in helping young minority male students get a […]
Close to 60% of all American taxpayers, about 100 million households, don’t pay one dime in federal income taxes. If a household makes $75,000 or less annually, it will most likely pay zero income tax. […]
On Christmas Eve, 1776, General George Washington threw a figurative Hail Mary pass to lead his bedraggled troops cross the Delaware River in a snowstorm and attack Hessian soldiers in Trenton, New Jersey. The code […]
The year was 135 B.C. A huge double comet with curved tails, the Sinope Comet, appeared in the sky over Pontus, now Turkey. Surely magi must have come from the East and maybe the West, […]
Redistricting is a necessary function of our democratic republic. Gerrymandering is a perversion of a critical self-governance function which distorts the concept of free and fair elections. Massachusetts Gov. Eldridge Gerry, the progenitor of the […]
There have been over 4,500 bright young high school student leaders who have been awarded The Morehead-Cain, known as The Morehead Scholarship until 2007, since inception in 1951. The hope was every recipient would go […]
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