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Leftists rage over Supreme Court and other outrageous stories
Where Keith Olbermann channels past segregationist governors. What a clown.
Opinion
Why fathers are so important
Father’s Day was this past Sunday. Many people spent time with their fathers or even post photos celebrating the men in their life on social media. Still, more than ever, there is an epidemic of children living without a solid fatherly influence. Today 1 in 4 children in America live without any kind of father...
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Fail
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Where are all the professional poverty protestors?
The ironic part of the poverty industry clamoring for more government is that the federal government itself is likely the biggest force against the poor.
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North Carolina’s opportunity to ban health industry gag clauses and unleash price transparency
This piece was co-written with Cynthia Fisher. [Editor’s note: This opinion piece was originally published at Forbes.com and is reprinted with permission] Jason Dean from Tennessee needed stitches on his knee after a minor accident last year. He went to a local hospital that told him insurance would cover the procedure. Weeks later, he received a $6,500...
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Vanishing
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Cryptocurrency and the government’s desire for control
The benefit of blockchain is found in its transparency as a public ledger. This is beneficial if it is not controlled or limited by a central authority. If it were centrally controlled and limited, it could quickly become a weapon against private property, individual liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is in this point of contingency that lies...
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Beasley’s better answer on crime
If Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley can’t come up with a better answer on crime, then her campaign may stall before she gets out of the general election gate. Senate Republicans have launched another ad scorching Beasley as soft on crime based on her rulings as a state Supreme Court Justice. The new $1.7...
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Stop pushing political panic buttons
Remember when rapid automation was going to render large swaths of the workforce unemployed? Politicians and other professional worrywarts warned that robots would displace production workers, that self-driving vehicles and drones would displace truckers and delivery personnel, and the algorithms and kiosks would displace service and managerial employees. Radical responses such as universal basic income...
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Primaries showed voters think for themselves
Nothing turns out voters like climbing inflation and $5 a gallon gas. This year a 20% primary turnout represents the highest rate in the last 30 years of N.C. primary elections. The only higher turnout was 2002, the year after 9/11. In a new twist, unaffiliated voters are now N.C.’s single largest voting population and,...
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Disputed ad raises legitimate questions about Beasley’s record
Cheri Beasley never voted to “set free” a child porn offender. But that’s not the end of the story. Shining more light on that offender’s case is likely to do little to bolster Beasley’s political prospects. Beasley, the Democratic nominee for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat, generated headlines earlier this month. Lawyers working on...
