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Opinion
N.C. State making little effort to promote viewpoint heterogeneity
Like just about every university and college these days, mine — N.C. State University — spends millions each year on a sprawling bureaucracy advocating racial, gender, and other types of “cultural” diversity. A university should be a marketplace of ideas to be discovered, understood, analyzed, and debated. Students and research produced should be rigorous, judicious, and worldly. A public...
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Strategery
Opinion
Prohibition ended with repeal, but efforts to regulate and restrict alcohol continue
The misguided and ultimately debilitating and tragic ban of alcohol that we called Prohibition was, at its core, about control. Control of our time, our choices, and our habits. Control of our money and our freedom to live and to prosper as we saw fit. Lawmakers and bureaucrats use and abuse the word, sometimes in...
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Workplace hazard
Opinion
Christmas gains aren’t a loss
Attacking gift-giving is a good example of people knowing just enough about economics to get them into the woods but far from enough to lead them out again.
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Making a list … checking it twice
Opinion
High court nears year’s end with no sign of Democratic versus Republican bloc
The N.C. Supreme Court issues its last batch of opinions for 2017 without showing signs of a deep partisan split.
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ABC’s leap of faith
Opinion
Carolina leader sides with Christmas
Josephus Daniels made many decisions during his public life — some praiseworthy, some profoundly misguided. Leaving Christmas alone was among his better ones.
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Stuart, smaller
Opinion
Occupational licensing Grinch ready to steal opportunities
It’s the holidays. Time for good cheer, glad tidings and songs of the season. Good will to all, peace and joy. But in North Carolina, a Grinch hides around every corner. He steals opportunity and won’t let people work. The Grinch is occupational licensing. He’s a mean one. Traveling over the river and through the...
