Americans For Prosperity North Carolina delivers thousands of petitions to the State Capitol July 31, 2009. The petitions urge Gov. Beverly Perdue to veto any state budget plan that includes tax increases. AFPNC state director Dallas Woodhouse discusses his group’s opposition to tax increases.
Opinion
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...