Don't engage in statistical silliness
Should regulators require child-safety locks on stepladders? Such a rule would have been a real problem at the Hood abode years ago when my boys were little. At the time, there were a couple of... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Four big questions as lawmakers return from summer vacation
The General Assembly has returned from its week-long break in the middle of this year's legislative session. Here are four questions that may or may not be answered in the next couple of months as... Read More
N.C. voting law: illegal or just bad?
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, July 14, 2014. North Carolina’s new voting laws are wrong-headed. But are they illegal or unconstitutional? That’s what U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder has... Read More
A critical problem for the elderly (and those who aspire to that status)
The desperate need to improve our treatment of caregivers If you are a person of relatively sound mind and body, consider the following question tonight as you get ready for bed: If you needed help... Read More
Pure power play
Flexing its muscles, the Republican Establishment decided to put Donald Trump in his place – but missed that while Trump may be part whacko he’s also pure cutthroat: When the GOP Doyens sitting... Read More
Which industries will follow filmmakers out of state?
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, July 14, 2015. The film industry is all but dead in North Carolina because a General Assembly incentives jihad has sent movie producers scurrying to other states... Read More
Voting law on trial
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, July 14, 2015. The voting rights trial that opened in federal court in Winston-Salem Monday is getting a wide audience but may not measure up to its big claims... Read More
GOP claims union backing 'Moral Monday'
by Mark Binker, WRAL, July 13, 2015. The North Carolina Republican Party used a news conference in Winston-Salem Monday morning to spotlight what party leaders say is an unseemly connection between... Read More
Historic trial on NC election law starts in Winston-Salem
In a crowded second-floor federal courtroom, North Carolina’s controversial election law went on trial, and along with it, the state’s complicated racial history, less than a month before the 50th... Read More
Mandating the way to higher health costs
The U.S. Supreme Court might have saved Obamacare from having to operate as written, but the landmark decision in King v. Burwell has not deterred those on the right side of the political debate... Read More
