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Balance the federal budget Year 1
The question isn't whether we can afford to balance the budget immediately; it's whether we can afford not to.
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NC should be 20th state to call for Convention of States
Delegates from around the country, almost all of whom were state officials, arrived in a steamy legislative chamber 237 years ago. They were sent by their respective states to Philadelphia with the charge to “render the federal constitution adequate for the exigencies of the Union.” Fresh from their revolutionary and victorious fight for freedom from...
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Trump’s first-day actions make Medicaid expansion less likely
An executive order by President Donald Trump along with a regulatory freeze announced by his chief of staff place new barriers between Gov. Roy Cooper and his plan to expand Medicaid in North Carolina, experts say. A restraining order issued in federal court is blocking Gov. Roy Cooper’s $6 billion Medicaid expansion plan for now....
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Friday Interview: A Plan to ‘Transcend’ Obamacare
RALEIGH — Conservatives have spent much time in recent years talking about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Avik Roy, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and opinion editor at Forbes, has a different idea. Roy issued a report in 2014 titled “Transcending Obamacare.” During a recent trip to North Carolina, Roy shared themes from that report in a discussion with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Opinion
Freedom Is Our Goal
Freedom isn’t just an abstraction. It is a proven solution for practical problems.
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Gonzalez: Hispanic Ethnic Unity a Government Myth
The Heritage Foundation scholar points out how the welfare state has failed immigrants from Latin America while giving short shrift to illegal immigration and other concerns.
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Reassessing the War
About 31 percent of American households were in poverty by this measure in 1962. By 2010, that rate had dropped to 5 percent.
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GOP House District 13 Candidates Clamor Over Conservative Credentials
RALEIGH — All three candidates in the 13th U.S. Congressional District Republican primary hold the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms in high esteem, but each questions his opponents’ ability to maintain a conservative track record if given a chance to go to Washington.
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Friday Interview: Goldberg Surveys American Political Scene
RALEIGH — In early 2009, with President Barack Obama riding a high off a recent electoral win, would anyone have predicted that the American political scene in 2011 would look so much different? It’s a fascinating development for Jonah Goldberg, the National Review Online editor-at-large and author of The New York Times No. 1 best-seller Liberal Fascism. Goldberg discussed the issue with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Opinion
Voegeli Shows That, For Liberals, There’s Never Enough Spending
Don’t get me wrong. William Voegeli’s Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State is an excellent book, not to mention a very important book as Republicans at both the state and federal levels seek to reverse two years of Democratic policies that have brought our country to the brink of insolvency. But it’s a difficult book to review, because it tells conservatives something they’ve known for quite some time: There simply are never enough government entitlement programs to satisfy liberals, no matter the circumstances.
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For Obama, It’s Roosevelt Or Clinton
A net stimulus exists only to the extent that Washington knows better how to spend our money than we do.
Opinion
In Politics, Back To 1993
A useful way to think about the two Democratic wave elections of 2006 and 2008 is that they’ve taken America back to the status quo ante of 1993.
