Forget the football and basketball teams. How about that LAW SCHOOL?
Chapel Hill is known mainly for two things: (1) Great basketball and (2) loony-tunes lefty nuttiness. Basketball is down a little bit this year. (The football team
Continue readingRob “Rielle Who?” hits the nail on the head re: McCrory, but misses the mark on a lot of other stuff
Guest lecturer Rob Christensen appears to be filling in for John Frank at the Raleigh campus of McClatchy’s School of Creative Writing. Mr. Frank, the school’s dean, must be
Continue reading(1) Lefties scream. (2) Tillis & McCrory cave. (3) Return to Step One.
A requirement for voters to show ID at the polls, and special licensing for non-citizens would appear to be no-brainers for the state GOP after winning an overwhelming majority
Continue readingPilot owner at odds with his op-ed page on “corporate welfare”
Frank Daniels III, a minority owner (and son of the majority owner) of our thrice-weekly Al-Jazeera Award winning local paper, is upset about the whole idea of corporate welfare.
Continue readingSTILL WAITING FOR THAT CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION: NC, national GOP throwing limited government under the bus
In 2010, we were told a conservative revolution was sweeping North Carolina AND the country. In 2012, we were told conservatism was on the rise — with the election of
Continue readingRNC missing the boat with its “autopsy”
The mainstream media is chattering away about this party “remake” report issued by a group of establishment Republicans. The report regurgitates a lot of the same things
Continue readingCyprus, The EU and Banks: The shape of things to come?
The world is in an uproar over a financial bailout offered by The European Union to the island nation of Cyprus. Specifically, the controversy is
Continue readingNCGOP leadership races starting to get crowded
With all of the infighting between grassroots activists and establishment types this past year, you had to expect this. Right now, it appears there will be at least
Continue readingHOT lanes have taxpayers hot under the collar
North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of
Continue readingEconomic development or merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?
Politicians LOVE to talk about — and pat themselves on the back about — job creation and economic development. Though, most rational people know the only sources for job
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