Editor’s note: This story was updated at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 7, with comments from Wake County ABC General Manager Ike Wheeler. A week or so ago, a group of people who don’t like the idea of people drinking liquor got together to denounce efforts to privatize…
Restoring teacher-pay bumps for graduate degrees would be a triumph of special-interest pressure over sound policy, of image over substance, of hope over experience.
An index of economic freedom helps rebut arguments from self-proclaimed American socialists.
North Carolinians have the right to purchase, use, enjoy, and dispose of their property as they see fit — and this sphere of private ownership and control very much includes housing.
As the specifics — and many of the absurd objectives — of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal have come to light, the common refrain from Democrats who support it is that the plan is “aspirational.” In other words, they believe that the world Ocasio-Cortez envisions is somehow ideal. It…
Death and taxes aren’t the only two certainties North Carolinians face. New congressional and legislative districts are coming, too — for 2020 (by court order) and 2022 (after the end-of-decade census). Chances also are strong the Tar Heel State will get a 14th congressional district, so reapportionment should be…
Now that the individual mandate is essentially gone, we should be embracing reforms that work with our traditions of individual freedom and federalism rather than against them.
If the U.S. Supreme Court rejects future partisan gerrymandering cases, the primary legal battlefield is likely to shift to Raleigh.
If a Democratic judiciary strikes down popular policies just approved by the voters themselves, most will see the Democrats as the party hostile to popular sovereignty, not the Republicans.
Father of His Nation. Our first president. The New Cincinnatus. First in whiskey. President’s Day started out to celebrate the man behind those titles, George Washington, on his birthday, Feb. 22. Wait — first in whiskey? Yes. When Washington said farewell to the presidency in 1797, he hired a Scottish…
