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Michael Tomasky, editor of the journal Democracy, has advice for those who would like fewer socialists. “Stop creating them.” Tomasky outlines a number of ways that cronies in government and…
With the help of the Institute for Justice, a Winston-Salem physician has filed a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s certificate of need laws. From IJ’s press release: Imagine living in a…
New research continues to highlight the economic burdens imposed by big government regulations and big corporation cronyism in the US. For all the concerns about the heavy hand of Brussels…
Editors at the New York Post explore Hillary Clinton‘s latest excuse for losing the 2016 presidential election. Hillary Clinton has offered a long series of reasons why her 2016 was…
A level playing field. Equal opportunity. Less government interference and more personal choice and responsibility. They’re three ways to describe the limited government view — some might say classical liberalism.…
You probably know that solar energy advocates acknowledge that solar is an unsustainable industry without lots of government aid.
It's a two-pronged, self-defeating argument that solar advocates make without seeming to notice how the second prong makes an utter shambles of the first. Solar energy is a powerhouse new…
With news that Amazon has selected Raleigh as a top 20 finalist for its second headquarters, speculation has begun about exactly what kind of incentives package the city — or…
The recent spate of sexual assault and harassment stories, detailing decades of transgressions by previously well-respected men, may be a sign of a return to morality. Society has rediscovered some…
Greensboro City Manager Jim Westmoreland pitches the city’s proposed $56 million downtown parking decks. Cutting to the chase: As in the past, the proposed parking decks will be funded and…
It's bad enough the polls are misleading. What worse it, it's obviously being done by people who know they have to mislead in order to gain political power for their…
Last week (9/22), Carolina Journal’s “Daily Journal” featured an important article by my colleague Jon Sanders. It focused on Amazon’s attempt to fleece North Carolina’s taxpayers by soliciting an unprecedented incentive package, i.e.,…