The cause of combatting corporate welfare has taken two brutal punches in recent days. But by far the more painful one came from a North Carolina court decision that imperils constitutional safeguards.
Offensensibility is something afflicting many in our society, and it's an especially volatile combination with cultural illiteracy. Just ask new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow.
Here is a hard-edged plan to recast North Carolina's downtowns by mixing a little taxpayer investment into an industry that promises to heat up the economy and lead to unalloyed benefits for all.
NEW YORK, NY — In the national effort to improve educational achievement, urban districts offer the greatest challenge as they often serve the most disadvantaged students. Many urban leaders have initiated charter schools as a mechanism of improving learning.
The present study, U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2004 Report, is an effort to update, refine, and improve on previous work. It is hoped that by measuring economic freedom and studying its effects, people will gain a fuller appreciation of the important imprint it makes on the economic and political fabric of America and encourage new legislation in the states that advances economic liberty
The speaker is right to argue that state interference in private, voluntary transactions results in fewer jobs and less freedom. Why so selective, though?
When progressives describe government actions, it's hard to tell what they're really doing.
There are few issues that attract near-unanimous sentiment. The need to change NC counties’ funding responsibility for Medicaid is on that very short list.
WASHINGTON, DC — According to research from various sources, today's teachers are primarily white, female, married, religious, and on average are 43 years old. More than half hold at least a master's degree. Forty-five years ago, that wasn't true.
Public schools have become ground zero in the culture wars. Increasingly, the incursion of gay advocacy groups into classrooms is forcing parents to redraw battle lines over what (and how) children learn about morality.
While some NC conservatives spent the past few months arguing for a major change in the state’s motor-fuels tax, certain columnists remained unconvinced.
