Flashback: Three Telling Christmas Tales
Here," she said, beaming with holiday cheer, "take my coat. It is cold tonight and I think you need it more than I do. Merry Christmas!"
How’s my driving?
The impression that your business makes on people who are not your direct clients may have more to do with your failure or success than you think. Researchers claim that consumers repeat negative stories about their contact with a business or organization eleven times more often than they repeat positive stories.
Pledge Irony
Reforming the Sales Tax: Do It Right or Not at All
Fairness and economic efficiency should outweigh potential revenue gains as lawmakers tinker with the tax system.
A Strong Federal System Offers the Best Protection Against Tyranny
RALEIGH -- With the renewed interest in state sovereignty and federalism as alternatives to the current march toward centralization, Americans forget that states can abuse power, too.
Held Hostage
Some Pop Quizzes in Wake
So far, I’d give the new conservative majority on the Wake County school board passing grades on some very difficult tests.
Individual Mandate
Straying From The Group™
For years, the Charlotte establishment has fretted about what would happen when the current generation of leaders moved on.
Slacker
Unpopular — And Rightly So
Coercing taxpayers to fund the campaigns of candidates with whom they may passionately disagree is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.