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How Republican Is North Carolina?
How Republican is North Carolina? My answer is 63. I realize this number has no meaning to you right now. I’ll explain it. For starters, I’m not saying that 63 percent of North Carolina voters are Republicans. Not even half of them are Republicans. In fact, out of approximately 6.5 million people registered to vote...
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Heads I win, tails you lose
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Reining in Regulatory Growth
North Carolina has become a national model in tax reform, in education reform, in the restraint of government growth. North Carolina can become a model in rules and regulation reform as well.
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A Humdrum SAT for The Real World
If you don't like Common Core, you probably won't like the new SAT.
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Socialist Realism
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Campaign dispatch, February 3, 2016
• Debategate, round two? Attorney General Roy Cooper and former state Rep. Deborah Ross of Wake County, the Democratic Party’s presumed front-runners for governor and U.S. senate, respectively, still have refused to commit to debate their primary opponents, the N&O reports. Time Warner Cable News and WRAL have set aside time for the candidates either...
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At least she’s consistent
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Iowa Offers Lesson for N.C.
The states of Iowa and North Carolina have at least two things in common. First, they are the nation’s top producers of hogs. Second, they are often overrun with politicians desperate to attract attention and votes. But I repeat myself. Now that we know the results of the Iowa caucuses, the 2016 political landscape is...
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Sanders payback plan
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Don’t Oversell College Subsidies
It always has been implausible to insist that taxpayers be the single largest source of funding for colleges and universities.
