Born-alive battle could mark return of veto override strategy
Lawmakers are under no obligation to address a gubernatorial veto quickly. Political strategy could play a role.
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Bail isn’t supposed to punish
As a risk-management device, the current bail system lacks precision in that it imposes costs on some of the wrong people and fails adequately to restraint some of the right people.
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Time for a reboot on kids’ online privacy
One in three internet users worldwide is a child under 18, estimates show. Expect that figure to rise as smart toys and all sorts of smart devices fuel constant connection. How will personal data, collected today, be used tomorrow? Answers are evolving. In a marketplace where…
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School choice allows parents to choose sacrifice, inconvenience to help their children succeed
We got lucky. By we I mean my family, which includes my wife and twin boys, who are now 16. They have never attended a traditional public school. They haven’t attended a private school, either. But that’s the great thing about freedom…
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Respond wisely to offensive speech
If my student group schedules a speaker on campus and you show up to shout down or obstruct the speaker, you aren’t exercising free speech — you’re trying to shut it down.
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Another chance to tout the zero tax bracket
A Louisiana lawmaker touts a plan that would mirror one of North Carolina's recent reforms.
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Excessive debt slows economic growth
The annual rate of economic growth from 1995 to 2014 was more than a percentage point lower than it would have been in the absence of America’s debt explosion.
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A ballooning federal debt no one is talking about
The only thing more worrying than the federal government’s recent announcement that the debt had reached $22 trillion, or 104 percent of GDP, was that it generated such little attention. In the 1980s and 1990s, by contrast, the issue was a central feature of the national…
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Arguments for Prohibition in 1917 hold no place for lawmakers today
As I listened Tuesday to a N.C. House committee discuss an alcohol bill, I thought about how America debated the 18th Amendment. In 1917, and for years after that. I thought about how we spoke to each other — those influenced by the…
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Train and pay principals wisely
Few missions will be as important, and as challenging, as preparing the next generation of principals to lead North Carolina’s schools.