To our state's shame, North Carolina ranks number eight in the nation for sex trafficking.
( Published Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 8:06 pm )]]> There's a revolution coming in this country. A growing majority of ordinary people (i.e., not the political elite) are simply fed up with government the way it has been operating the last few years, by both political parties.
( Published Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 1:31 pm )]]> Absurd headlines are springing up in newspapers all across North Carolina stating: "Tax Credit Costs $336 Million in State Revenue."
( Published Friday, September 27th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm )]]> The UNC academic fraud scandal is like a pesky staph infection that just won't go away for university officials - nor should it.
( Published Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 4:32 pm )]]> Most North Carolinians are painfully aware of how grim the ongoing recession has been for our state. However, few know about our oppressive Third World debt owed to the federal government for money borrowed to pay benefits to unemployed workers.
( Published Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 @ 11:55 pm )]]> Mahatma Gandhi is remembered as a man of peace because of his nonviolent revolution that ended British rule of India.
( Published Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 9:48 am )]]> If Beverly Perdue is not the worst governor in North Carolina's long history, she is at least the worst in recent memory. She even managed to surpass her predecessor, convicted felon Mike Easley.
( Published Monday, September 16th, 2013 @ 4:31 am )]]> Well before Gov. Pat McCrory was sworn into office, the leftist mainstream press battered him for not being bipartisan enough.
( Published Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 3:20 pm )]]> "We have the opportunity to transform our culture of government through a top-to-bottom assessment of efficiency, effectiveness and more than anything else, a culture of customer service." These were the most important words of Governor Pat McCrory's inaugural address.
( Published Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 2:58 pm )]]> Many constitutionalists, libertarians and conservatives are justifiably angry with President Obama due to his recent executive decrees regarding firearms.
( Published Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 @ 8:02 am )]]> Do you know what happens in North Carolina if a government board, agency or commission refuses to obey the state's sunshine laws requiring open meetings and records? Absolutely nothing!
( Published Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 8:38 pm )]]> There is an old saying, "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune." After years of mismanagement, our state's economy is weighed down by $2.5 billion owed to Washington for our unemployment insurance debt.
( Published Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 10:50 pm )]]> Have the Republicans lost their minds by rejecting Medicaid expansion? "Yes" is the answer, according to liberal Democrats and their allied editorial writers across the state.
( Published Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm )]]> Last week, this column broke the fact that North Carolina ranks at the top (number 11) in state-level spending on education. Although the Tar Heel State ranks 45th on overall spending on education, it has nothing to do with any policy promulgated by the General Assembly.
( Published Sunday, August 25th, 2013 @ 5:47 pm )]]> Straight ticket voting is the poster child for voter laziness and apathy.
( Published Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 3:08 pm )]]> With a wink and a nod, the left-wing media continues to help push the deceptive agenda of the teachers union (NCAE) in the Tar Heel State. It is readily apparent that neither the NCAE nor the media support real educational reform in North Carolina.
( Published Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 4:38 pm )]]> For all those who scream, "There is no voter fraud in North Carolina!" the silence was deafening after the latest revelation from the State Board of Elections (SBOE) regarding online voter registration during the 2012 election season.
( Published Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 9:23 am )]]> As the debate rages over photo voter ID, it is fascinating to listen to the arguments against the proposed law. The opposition continues to repeat the same old lines used back in 2005 when Georgia passed a similar photo ID bill.
( Published Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 4:01 pm )]]> Despite having 152 convicted murderers on death row, North Carolina has not conducted an execution since 2006.
( Published Sunday, August 11th, 2013 @ 12:12 pm )]]> Government has truly become Big Daddy in many people's minds. Nothing proves this claim more than recent arguments on the floor of the North Carolina Senate regarding SB 594.
( Published Saturday, August 10th, 2013 @ 8:20 pm )]]> Vladimir Lenin said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Professional educrats (education bureaucrats) and their buddies in the mainstream media have taken this quote to heart.
( Published Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 6:52 pm )]]> A human face was put on sex trafficking in a recent Senate Judiciary 1 committee meeting. Anna, a young lady who was the victim of sex trafficking when she was a teenager, gave powerful testimony before the committee.
( Published Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 3:51 pm )]]> North Carolina businesses have struggled mightily against the 15,000+ new regulations, amendments and rules that have been implemented in our state over the past decade. Our high unemployment rate and stagnant growth are proof that you cannot regulate an economy into riches.
( Published Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 1:33 pm )]]> The Democrat complaint list goes on and on against photo voter ID in North Carolina: voter suppression, new Jim Crow laws, onerous requirements for college students to cast ballots, etc.
( Published Saturday, July 27th, 2013 @ 1:53 am )]]> Attorney General Roy Cooper's recent dog and pony show was an embarrassment to his office. Cooper had gotten wind that Senate budget writers were planning to transfer the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) from Cooper's control to the Department of Public Safety (DPS).
( Published Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 @ 12:52 pm )]]>