Budget deficits are a thing of the past in North Carolina, but could Gov. Roy Cooper bring them back? One of the most debilitating expenditures for all states is the acceptance of federal dollars for […]
Reporting on the H.B. 2 sports “boycott” has been endlessly repetitive but rarely accurate. Here are a few facts that may add perspective:The NCAA apparently forgot that the 2016 Final Four was played in Texas […]
Gov. Roy Cooper hopes to get federal approval to expand Medicaid in North Carolina before Donald Trump becomes president and Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act. Barely a week into his term, and before Cooper […]
Chicago has come a long way from the idealized lyric “my kind of town, Chicago is,” which Frank Sinatra made famous.True, Chicago has a history of gangland murders going back to the days of Al […]
Gastonia native Thomas Sowell must feel like he has achieved the transcendental wish of Garrison Keillor. So many Americans are praising Sowell that radio personality Keillor’s observation seems to have come true: “They say such […]
When I enrolled at Ole Miss way back in 1997, one of the appeals was big-time SEC college football. The pomp, pageantry, and tradition complemented the Rebel Yell the bourbon brand as well as […]
No inherent right outlined in the Constitution constantly faces the kind of regulation and misconceptions as the right to bear arms. Thankfully, North Carolina does not contain the excessive and burdensome regulations as some states, […]
Of all Barack Obama’s costumes, the most ill-fitting is that of the hawk. The guise doesn’t work for all sorts of ideological and historical reasons. Plus there’s the fact that he’s rushing to put on […]
Happy new year! At least, we hope it will be a happy one. Two thousand seventeen will have one fewer day than its predecessor, so maybe it won’t be able to foul things up quite […]
Two thousand sixteen was stunning to those of us living through it. And just consider what it might look like 100 years from now in 2116 when future historians and political commentators look back on […]
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