Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, discusses the best way state elected leaders could respond to growing unemployment in North Carolina. The state’s unemployment rate reached 10.8 percent for March 2009.
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...