Opinion
The Placeholder Budget of 2010
In 2011, some $3 billion in short-term federal bailout funds and temporary taxes are scheduled to disappear from the state’s revenue availability
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Play ball!
Opinion
Good Win for Insurance Reform
The free-market analyst has some good things to say about North Carolina’s Democratic insurance commissioner, Wayne Goodwin.
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Bird brains
Opinion
On Teeth, Braids and Liberty
The only reasonable justification for state occupational regulation is to deter fraud.
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N&O needs remedial instruction on First Amendment
The editors dedicated roughly two-thirds of a piece ostensibly about the ethics bill before the short session of the General Assembly into a diatribe on the public-financing provision that was axed.
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Expert advice
Opinion
North Carolina Dodges a Tax-Financed Bullet
A scheme to expand the state’s dubious system of doling out political welfare gets shelved ... for now.
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Another star
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Will They Do The Right Thing?
Perhaps Congress will surprise me and do the right thing. But I tend to doubt it.
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Engaging Our Traditions
Because we understand that if we do not pass down this tradition to willing recipients, this American dream will succumb to ideology, and our identity as a nation will no longer be the nation founded by our fathers.
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