A "big idea" from two visionaries has resulted in an influential organization that is considered to be the gold standard of state-based think tanks.
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.
Is the glass half-full, or is it half-empty? Ask an overly ambitious politician, and the answer usually will be “half-empty.” Ask environmental activists, who wag the dog in today’s political power circles, and again, the answer will always be “half-empty,” or in many cases, “hopelessly empty.”
RALEIGH — U.S. Reps. Virginia Foxx and Patrick McHenry, both of North Carolina, joined 16 other legislators last week to ask U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to administer a lie detector test to a Clinton administration official who stole confidential government papers.
Widely ignored by the mainstream media was the inspector general of the National Archives’ final report on former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger’s pilfering of classified documents from the archives in 2003.
The environmental movement and its friends in government drive up prices at the pump.
CHAPEL HILL — The graduation ceremonies held at many colleges and universities in North Carolina this past weekend marked the end to yet another academic year, one that will be remembered for turmoil that included hirings and firings, freedom of speech controversies and a terrorist attack with an SUV.
RALEIGH — Welcome to Carolina Journal Online’s Friday Interview. Today the John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai discusses a possible Hillary Clinton vs. Condi Rice presidential matchup with author, columnist and former presidential adviser Dick Morris. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
President Bush's fiscal-policy record is far worse than a President Gore’s would probably have been, if history is any guide.
CHAPEL HILL – Former Clinton Administration Chief of Staff and two-time U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles was named Monday the 16th president of the University of North Carolina system. Bowles’ appointment will become effective Jan. 1, when he will then succeed current President Molly Broad, who announced in April her plans to retire at the end of the 2005-06 academic year or when a successor had been named.
The partisan blame game on Hurricane Katrina is premature and potentially counterproductive for those savaging the administration. Two Democratic leaders who understand this are named Clinton.
