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How To Read This Column
I and others who espouse the virtues of smaller government and greater freedom may be mistaken. But our beliefs derive from logic and experience. Please structure your rebuttals accordingly.
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For those paying the dearest price
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Tough choices
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A Win By Any Other Name?
Partisans on the left and right view a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling through different lenses
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More Bad Ballpark News
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a ballpark proposal in High Point. Recently, I saw a Fayetteville Observer headline: “Fayetteville, Cumberland officials to visit Columbia, S.C. to tour baseball stadium.” Oh, no. I knew where this was going. And I was right. The city has met with the Houston Astros about bringing a minor...
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Check the trail for crumbs
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Rural ‘Decline’ Defies Simple Answers
Overly broad explanations of problems plaguing smaller communities lead to one-size-fits-all solutions that tend not to work.
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Reality check
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Political Coin Lands On Its Edge
Over all the 17 publicly released polls taken since early February about the governor's race, Roy Cooper gets an average of 43 percent of the vote to Pat McCrory’s 42 percent.
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Hillary’s Election Would Be Obama’s Third Term
President Obama is at it again, issuing guidance to schools in the United States to ensure that transgender students be allowed to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. His spokesman, Josh Earnest, has declared House Bill 2 a “civil rights” issue so the Obama administration had no choice but to step in and...
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Sluggish proposal
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The Best Route Toward a Consumption Tax
Over the last few years, ever since the tax reform of 2013 took hold in North Carolina, there has been a steady push to expand the sales tax to services in an attempt to make it a more pure consumption tax. The idea, on the part of some analysts and lawmakers, has been eventually to...
