The problem with freedom is that other people may do things that trouble, annoy, or even anger you. In a free society, you have no authority to stop them.
Before telling North Carolinians once again that we are keeping too much of our own hard-earned money to spend as we wish, the politicians should demonstrate a willingness to set priorities.
There’s a connection between Strauss, the Waltz, Austrian economics, and the proper role of government leaders. Or perhaps it's just an excuse to mention dancing. . .
Of all the challenges that facing North Carolinians, perhaps the most serious is that the state’s political class is insular, arrogant, and woefully misinformed.
Instead of focusing on fundamental change, education officials continued in 2006 to throw lots of good money after bad to fix chronic problems.
UNC should be looking for new, original ways of using the Internet to connect students, wherever they might be, with good learning experiences.
WASHINGTON, DC — Opportunities for school choice in the US have expanded since the 1990s. This report uses data from the National Household Surveys Program to present trends focusing on the use of and users of public schools, private schools, and homeschoolers.
How is the Chicago snowstorm of 1967 like the arrival of the Sony PlayStation3? In "Capitalism and Greed," economist James Doti tells a story from his graduate school days. Snowbound in a blizzard, trucks could not get into the inner city to deliver supplies to grocery stores for nearly a week. One grocer's solution not only kept his customers in supplies, he did it without lines, rationing, or fisticuffs. Hint: it's all about price; more specifically, about price elasticity of demand.
Dickens once proclaimed: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness." The governors of the two Carolinas try to prove him right.
The Boston Globe needs a better city editor. How else does one explain sending a reporter all the way to Guatemala to report on the illegal aliens who once worked for a company that maintained Gov. Mitt Romney’s lawn?
The North Carolina Banking Commission did the right thing the other day – but the fact that it even needed to make the decision in question was troubling, as was its justification.
