Weak as water
How do you figure it? Obama’s sending fifty soldiers to Iraq to whip ISIS. Fifty soldiers. We’re at war with the craziest bunch of mean-eyed terrorists anyone’s laid eyes on since Genghis Khan... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Give back Keith contributions
When video sweepstakes executive Chase Burns sent about $270,000 in campaign donations to dozens of North Carolina state lawmakers and Gov. Pat McCrory in 2012, it was clear what he wanted. He wanted... Read More
We must recognize and stop ISIS' global threat
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, November 17, 2015. In the city named for the Marquis de Lafayette, we get the outrage, the sadness, the urge to strike back against the terror attacks last week in... Read More
Not how we should be
The face you see is that of Daniel Patrick Boyd, who headed a North Carolina-based jihadist group until the FBI put an end to his activities. He's pulling time in a federal prison in Florida. "Boyd... Read More
Per-pupil spending in NC highest since 2011
Public school advocacy groups are pointing out that inflation-adjusted per-student spending is lower than it was before the Great Recession. But I do not believe that ignoring the recession makes for... Read More
UNC BOG split on pay raises to chancellors
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Monday ?released a short summary of a controversial closed-door meeting during which the panel awarded raises to a dozen of the system's... Read More
McCrory asks feds to stop sending Syrian refugees to North Carolina
Gov. Pat McCrory says he has asked the federal government to stop sending Syrian refugees to North Carolina until more is known how those fleeing the war-torn country are vetted. Citing last week's... Read More
Medical care doesn't have to be expensive
Obamacare’s third annual enrollment period for health insurance is officially underway. Americans who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance, are self-employed, or have been... Read More
Social Security under siege
The political debates are totally dishonest in regard to Social Security. Ponzi scheme or not, the problem is the funds were moved from a private account to the general Treasury during the Lyndon B... Read More
Open government? Not here, not hardly anywhere
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, November 16, 2015. How open and honest is state government in North Carolina? Not very, according to a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. The center's... Read More
