After the Constitution was drafted and then submitted for approval, nine state ratification conventions quickly adopted a more “energetic” government, with enumerated powers. There were four holdouts, though. Among them was North Carolina. Thomas Jefferson […]
Sometimes the differences among North Carolinians prove that we have a distinctive and similar state identity. North Carolinians, for instance, are divided passionately regarding whether eastern or western barbecue and sometimes whether clogging or shag […]
Get your recording devices out. The same people who did not say one word about federal debt doubling from $10 trillion to $20 trillion under President Barack Obama are now suddenly fiscal hawks screaming about […]
When hunting was the major source of food, hunters often used stalking horses as a means of sneaking up on their prey. They would synchronize their steps on the side of the horse away from […]
If you wanted to predict the results of last Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, you would have been wise to ignore the flurry of polls and campaign events. You would have paid […]
The North Carolina Department of State Treasurer (DST) touches the lives of one in 10 North Carolinians every month. We manage the 26th-largest pool of money in the world valued at more than $110 billion. […]
A young person said this recently: “The Founders were all white privileged men” To which the answer was: “Yes. And your point is?” “They wrote the Constitution to protect their interests. It was stacked for rich […]
Unless you have been living under rock, you know that the Houston Astros recently won the World Series. Growing up, I played only backyard baseball with friends, but I learned to appreciate the subtle (and […]
One of the most challenging and important jobs for an economics professor is to teach students how little we know and can possibly know. My longtime friend and colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell says, “It takes […]
Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said it well recently when he stated that he was an “American first, a conservative second, and a Republican third.” Sasse’s point was that we endanger the Republic when we get […]
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