Opinion
No. 892: The Annual ‘By the Numbers’ Report
The Center for Local Innovation's By the Numbers report provides a realistic perspective of where local taxpayers' money is going.
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No. 891: Oil Will Be in Our Future
Consumers and environmentalists might wish for substitutes, but the United States will depend on oil for some time.
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Pondering the Kids’ Education Future
Universities have become places where the life of the mind is not truly celebrated, standards are weak, and the looniest of ideas and intellectuals are afforded comfy sinecures using money received by confiscation and trickery.
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Lindalyn’s Journal
Much has been said lately about the widespread failings of American high schools. Soaring enrollments in remedial college courses and a labor market glutted with ill-prepared workers only point back to a breakdown in secondary education.
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The Fiction of the Costless Tax
The city of Charlotte is about to have a new government-funded tourist attraction – the NASCAR Hall of Fame – but it won’t cost local residents any new taxes, say the city and county officials who favor the deal.
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Right Idea, Wrong Remedy on Schools
Wake Superior Court Judge Howdy Manning means well and is properly outraged by continued educational mediocrity. But his latest Leandro directive is blatant judicial activism.
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Silence of the Lambs
The media traditionally have demonstrated a keen ability to sense blood and swarm toward it. American blood, that is. Instead of courageously standing up recently to the threats of radical Islam and printing a few innocuous cartoons, they went after Dick Cheney’s jugular.
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Varying Views on the Chief Execs
The political culture in state capitals isn’t yet as poll-obsessed as the national political culture has become. A new comparisons of gubernatorial approval ratings is interesting, nonetheless.
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No. 889: Edenton Tea Party Inspired Defense of Liberty
Many Americans have heard of the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Far fewer can tell of the Edenton Tea Party of 1774—the first organized women’s political action in U.S. history.
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No. 890: A Call for Democratic Reform in North Carolina
The entire political machinery in North Carolina is rotten to the core. Sticking good people into a rotten corrupt system tends to produce corrupt politicians and corrupt legislation.
Opinion
The System Made Me Do It
There is plenty of mocking and sneering in Raleigh these days over House Speaker Jim Black's present difficulties, which surround his questionable practice of handing out political favors concurrently with distributing blank $100 checks to legislative supporters. A lot of people are blaming it on "the system."
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Score: Experts 1, Amateurs 0
Decision makers confront an unlevel playing field in modern government.
