War on poverty is deadly
America's half-century long War on Poverty has been a failure. How the war was lost is the topic Robert Rector describes in an insightful piece in this morning's Wall Street Journal. Rector writes... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Governor deflects blame for problems at DHHS
Editorial by News and Observer, January 8, 2014. The error was bad enough. The state Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 30 sent out new Medicaid cards with the personal information of... Read More
Requested hike in homeowners' insurance won't pass muster
Editorial by News and Observer, January 8, 2014. Insurers must have taken it literally when they attended their last industry convention and some inspirational speaker encouraged them to “reach for... Read More
Playing hide and seek with political donations
Let's suppose I happened to have scads of money, millions and millions of dollars. (OK, this exercise requires a lot of imagination.) Now let's suppose that I decided to put some portion of my net... Read More
Clay for Congress
Don’t underestimate a candidate who already won 12 million Americans’ votes on TV. Clay Aiken may be a surprising candidate for Congress, but he may be just what Democrats need: a new face and... Read More
The reality behind McCrory's misleading "Carolina Comeback"
Governor Pat McCrory is spending a lot of time these days talking about what he calls the “Carolina Comeback,” his political slogan for what he describes as the state’s economic recovery created... Read More
Obamacare will never work because math doesn't add up
After decades of health care debates going back at least to the Nixon and Clinton administrations, Obamacare has arrived, though handling health care through private markets paid with insurance has... Read More
Gerrymandering in NC results in few competitive races
If distinguished international visitors – say from Belgium and Finland – observed North Carolina’s elections they would have a difficult time describing the state’s political system as a... Read More
Time after time
Left-wing politicians, activists, and ideologues are desperate to stop and reverse North Carolina’s free-market renaissance. They aspire to unseat conservative leaders, invalidate conservative ideas... Read More
NC assault on public education
My son Ben’s language arts teacher emailed one morning this winter to tell me she is leaving Ben’s school. I feel sick, but I don’t blame her. Three of Ben’s middle school teachers have left... Read More
