State shouldn’t play favorites
Making North Carolina a more attractive place to live, work, shop, invest, and create businesses must be a high priority. But secret deals and preferential treatment are the wrong tools for the job.
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Positioning N.C. at the front of the line
Amid ongoing COVID-19 debates, some policymakers are focusing on the post-pandemic world.
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Progressive politicians hurt downtowns
Our urban cores will struggle to recover from COVID-19 and the 2020 riots — as will the reputations of the urban politicians who form the core of today’s American Left.
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Inconsistency and pandering: Unacceptable
Unacceptable. Gov. Roy Cooper’s penchant for absolute power. The way he plays with people’s lives and livelihoods. The flagrant partisanship and a creeping disdain among Democrats for freedom and liberty. The hypocrisy, the pandering. The weird science. It’s too much.
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Rule of law … or mob rule?
Mob violence seems to be the rule across the nation’s historic landmarks, indiscriminately tearing down or vandalizing everything from Gen. U.S. Grant to Cervantes to monuments to the “Greatest Generation.” This is especially true in cities and states with Democratic executive leadership, including North Carolina. Finally,…
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Cooper commits monumental error
A 2015 law enacted by bipartisan majorities in the General Assembly had forbidden state or local officials from removing public monuments except under limited circumstances. And, of course, preexisting state law made it a crime for private citizens, acting individually or as part of a mob, to deface, damage, or…
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Free markets drive innovation, which is key in attacking, defeating virus
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic include the importance of keeping money in savings to cushion an economic shutdown. Accurate and transparent data, we’ve learned, is critical. Restrictions to freedom must be temporary. Emergency calls for innovation, w…
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Recent ruling highlights importance of sticking to constitutional limits
An Appeals Court judge recognizes the limits of his job. He refuses to ignore a decades-old precedent.
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State’s economic recovery is too slow
Every month we keep parts of our economy sidelined will be another month of frustration, loss, and despair for all too many North Carolinians who simply want to get back to work.
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You seem lost, governor. We certainly are
I’ve about had it. Enough, already, with the mandates and decrees enacted to protect us from COVID-19. From each other. The inconsistent and obtuse data. The pedantic lecturing. Enough. I’m tired, and I’m not alone. I’m sure of that, evidenced by the myriad…