Opinion
Our Blogging Founding Fathers
The Founding Fathers were bloggers. Well, okay, let me rephrase that. Many of the Founders were the 18th-century equivalent of a certain category of modern-day bloggers.
Opinion
The Invisible Hand: Righty or Lefty?
What factors determine how well consumers with minority tastes and preferences are served by markets? By minority tastes, I mean a relatively small number of consumers whose preferences can only be met with special or customized products. Some lefties think this is a problem. It's not, at least not in the market, for a variety of reasons.
Opinion
The Late, Great Media Coup
Claiming credit for a colossal, unprecedented feat of PR hocus pocus would be a rush. But recent claims about JLF and the N&O are baseless.
Opinion
Five Years of Unconstitutionality
A judge rules in favor of the clear language in the state's governing legal document.
Opinion
Roamin’ Senate Races for 2006
If this year's House campaigns are likely to feature controversial Speaker Jim Black, surely the same can’t be said about races for NC Senate, right?
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
Numbers never lie. Or do they? American humorist Evan Esar defined statistics as “the only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.”
Opinion
Homestretch in the House Races
Labor Day is past. That marks the point at which the job of political pundit starts to get laborious. Today's labor is an NC House preview.
Opinion
Left and Right Debate the Middle
Are things getting better or worse for average Americans? There is a great deal of debate going on at the moment among folks with contrasting answers to this question
Opinion
The ABCs of Public Education in North Carolina
Fans of alphabet soup will enjoy the maze of educational jargon that governs students' daily lives.
Opinion
On Florida, It’s Hip to be Square
They may be faddish, but that doesn’t make Richard Florida's economic-development theories about the “creative class” valid or useful.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
SAT scores for 2006 were released this week, sounding off yet more alarms about high school performance. Nationally, SAT scores dropped by an average of 7 points – the sharpest decline in 31 years.
Opinion
Boy Scout Magazine Going PC?
I’m never surprised to be hit in the face each morning with multicultural, victimization, support-group style reporting in my local papers. That’s the bread and butter of the mainstream media these days.
