Liberty
Forbes Column Plugs Hole in Nickel’s Story
Patrick Gleason writes for Forbes about state Sen. Wiley Nickel’s effort to downplay his voting record as he runs for Congress. “In this race, I’m the moderate by far,” Wiley…
Laura Leslie
Research Brief
Education
Leandro Order: Creating a Constitutional Crisis to Benefit the Education Establishment
Superior Court Judge W. David Lee violated the separation of powers by ordering state finance officials to transfer $1.7 billion in taxpayer money from the General Fund without the requisite…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending October 18
This past week nearly 99.7% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and over seven out of eight (88.1%) adult North Carolinians are estimated…
Law & Public Safety
Why are media so blatantly deceptive about Senate Bill 359?
To be clear, Senate Bill 359 would not affect the legality of abortion in North Carolina in any way. So why do media and opponents refer to it as an…
Liberty
Yet another news item on the minimum wage that ignores mainstream economics
The negative impacts of the minimum wage is one of the items about which economists are in greatest agreement.
Energy
Media skepticism absent amid Gov. Cooper’s empty boasts
It'd be nice if our media wouldn't set their skepticism aside when it comes to climate cronyism. (You'd think this particular governor would have earned some skepticism from media when…
Liberty
List of best state political reporters
The Washington Post‘s Chris Cillizza published a list of the best state political reporters. The following North Carolina reporters made the list: Mark Binker, WRAL Jon Camp, ABC11 Tim Boyum,…
Liberty
Dispatches from the campaign trail, Sept. 5, 2014
• You just knew that some media outlet would do anything to find a way to make the first Kay Hagan-Thom Tillis debate all about the “war on women.” Helping…
Liberty
Dispatches from the campaign trail, Sept. 3, 2014
• One of the hallmarks of the Obama administration is the extent to which he has perfected the art of crony capitalism. Of course, that wouldn’t have been possible without…
Education
School choice is thriving in North Carolina
View in your browser. Welcome In this week’s CommenTerry, I examine school choice from a few different angles, mostly right angles, but angles nonetheless. Bulletin Board Learn. The John Locke…
Liberty
WRAL provides a prime example of media bias
Regardless of whether you support or oppose North Carolina’s marriage amendment, WRAL-TV gave us a prime example of media bias over the weekend with its “On the Record” segment discussing…
Law & Public Safety
UPDATED: NCGA’s Double Secret Constitutional Amendment Session
In a move that’s as heavy-handed, secretive, and obnoxious as anything that took place during the regimes of Marc Basnight and Jim Black, the GOP-led General Assembly may adjourn its…