At a time when our very real history in America is under siege from those want to expunge any mention of the sins of our past, Ron Chernow’s well-written and researched biography of former Union […]
Years ago, it was hard to be a racist. You had to be fitted for and spend money on a white gown and don a pointy hat. You celebrated racism by getting some burlap, wrapping […]
Prescription drug pricing has been the subject of much debate over the last year. Several states are looking at importing drugs from Canada as an answer to high prescription costs. The Florida legislature recently approved […]
If you love fiscal sanity, prepare to be sorely disappointed this week. Again. The Committee for A Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) calls the most recent budget deal expected to be passed by the Senate and […]
Washington State in the summer is the place to be if you are from hot, sticky, humid North Carolina. So is Maine. The high at Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Forest last Friday was a chilly 49 degrees. […]
Media headlines lately have been dominated by the Democrat Party presidential primary and the mind-numbing 20-plus candidates vying for the 2020 nomination. In the recent Democrat debates, many of the candidates attempted to portray a […]
To properly manage investment risk, it helps to pay attention to factors many investors ignore or by default embrace because they invest arbitrarily in index funds. In this note, scrutiny is drawn to one potential […]
Dr. Joan Perry of Kinston lost a runoff election for Congress last week in the Third Congressional District which runs down almost the entire coast of North Carolina. State Representative Dr. Greg Murphy of Greenville will be the Republican candidate running to fill […]
What constitutes a crime in North Carolina isn’t as obvious as you’d think, thanks to our confusing and ineffective criminal code. Sometimes our code lets the guilty walk free. Other times it ensnares a person, like […]
Over the past 78 years since World War II began in 1941, how many U.S. senators has North Carolina elected to send to Washington? Answer: 18. Go ahead. See you if can list them from memory: Bailey, Reynolds, Broughton, Hoey, Smith, Ervin, Scott, Jordan, Helms, Morgan, East, Sanford, Faircloth, Edwards, […]
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