State should let hospitals compete
A new study estimates that by restricting access to services, certificate-of-need laws increase the number of heart-attack deaths by as much as 10%.
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Should felons be able to vote?
Wherever you may stand on the question of restoring voting rights to convicted felons, you don’t stand alone. Opinions vary.
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“Zero Risk” Is Too Risky for Me
The risk of “zero risk” tyranny is far, far too great for me.
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Gaining altitude and industry in central coastal North Carolina
It was a mid-November day in 1980. I was sitting in the co-pilot seat of the Cessna 180 Marine Fisheries floatplane riveted on the scene in front of me. We were traveling south, flying under the radar of the Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, mere feet above a vast…
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Latest N.C. cartoon kerfuffle shines light on upcoming elections
One of the most fascinating and troubling aspects of our political culture today is the contempt that so many “experts” and government officials have for the citizenry.
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Freedom is worth the risk
Freedom is of great practical value. The more government suppresses it, the poorer and unhappier its citizens become.
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Exit polls offer useful insights
Roy Cooper earned the votes of 8% of those who voted for Trump and Tillis. Dan Forest received only 2% of the votes of Biden and Cunningham supporters.
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Computer generated maps do little to provide fairness in redistricting
When I was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, I investigated partisan gerrymandering and whether mathematical models produce fair congressional districts. Come to find out, it was a fool’s errand. I computed all kinds of maps using political data; however, the idea of fairness eluded me,…
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Teaching critical race theory is not civil rights history
Christianity remains the strongest anecdote to CRT because it stands against the materialist worldview that rejects the existence of God or that humans have souls and a destiny beyond this world.
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Our relationship with big tech must change
If the “rules” of censorship and cancel-culture were applied consistently, it would be bad enough. But reasonable people know that rules which allow terrorists to tweet, but not former presidents and current members of Congress, something is inherently unfair.