If Congress passes a new law that clears the way for North Carolina’s jobless to once again receive federally funded extended unemployment benefits, it’s not a slam dunk that the state would agree... Read More
by Thomas Sowell, Townhall.com, January 7, 2014. New York's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, in his inaugural speech, denounced people "on the far right" who "continue to preach the virtue of trickle-down... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
