Over at NC Policy Watch, Rob Schofield makes an interesting pitch in an attempt to connect the lack of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina to Jim Crow segregation in the Deep ... Keep Reading
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Why Newspapers Are Dying
Reporter Lynn Bonner and the News and Observer showed us once again why people have stopped buying newspapers: Reporters keep trying to make the news, not report it. That’s ... Keep Reading
When Was the Civil War?
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) has received some media attention recently for its attempts to restructure the standard curriculum for public high ... Keep Reading
DPI: Don’t Know Much About History
Kudos to my friend Terry Stoops of the John Locke Foundation. Terry has been one of the few critics of the draft social studies standards being developed by the North Carolina ... Keep Reading
Lessons of Risk
My fiancé has been playing Axis and Allies; a timeless Risk-type WWII simulated war game, in his tent at a FOB in Afghanistan. Because the real war that he engages in each day ... Keep Reading