About 3,000 protesters gathered outside the N.C. Legislative Building June 3, 2009, for a Take Back Our State Tea Party organized by Americans For Prosperity. Featured speakers included “Joe The Plumber,” Mary Katharine Ham of The Weekly Standard, 14-year-old conservative author Jonathan Krohn, Charlotte-area political commentator Lenny McAllister, and representatives of AFP North Carolina, the John Locke Foundation, the Civitas Institute, and StopNCAnnexation.
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...