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Time for Al Hunt to brush up on IRS law 27 Aug 2013 | 07:04 pm
Bloomberg columnist Al Hunt got it dead wrong. And that’s being charitable. In a recent syndicated column (picked up by the News & Observer), Hunt stated that the John William Pope Foundation, a nonp...
National Review rebuts claims that American exceptionalism is an outdated concept 27 Aug 2013 | 04:16 pm
James Pethokoukis has read recent claims that America’s exceptional growth in years past, aligned with the larger trend of unprecedented Western industrial growth, can be traced to a “series of random...
The president’s ‘fake bipartisanship’ 27 Aug 2013 | 04:13 pm
That’s the description Fortune columnist Allan Sloan, no raging right-winger, offers in his latest piece for the magazine. Washington is very good at creating things out of thin air. The Federal Rese...
Fortune managing editor’s disturbing thoughts about income inequality 27 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
Andy Serwer’s editor’s note near the front of the latest Fortune magazine tackles the topic of growing income inequality in the United States. Serwer’s observations are disturbing in at least three wa...
One sign that the rule of men holds precedence over the rule of law 27 Aug 2013 | 04:06 pm
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek discusses the federal government’s qualms about the US Airways/American Airlines merger. Regardless of the merits of the concerns, what’s disturbing about the article...
A Washington reform measure plagued by too much red tape? Shocking 27 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek features an editorial with the utterly unsurprising headline “The Red Tape That’s Choking Financial Reform.” It’s been more than three years since the Dodd-Frank fin...
New Carolina Journal Online features 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that North Carolina school boards are launching a new group focusing on political advocacy. Troy Kickler’s Daily Journal highlights an American Founder wit...
36 Days… 27 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
…Until the state’s federally-run health insurance marketplace, which will be dominated by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, opens for enrollment. The Heartland Institute examines what lar...
OMB Releases Updated Sequestration Report; FY 2014 Federal Budget Remains Uncertain 27 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Last week, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a report to both the President and Congress giving an update on sequestration for fiscal 2014. The report includes informatio...
Sausage Biscuits in Moore Square 27 Aug 2013 | 01:31 am
On Saturday, for the first time in six years, Hugh Hollowell and his charitable organization, Love Wins, were told that they couldn’t hand out breakfast biscuits to the homeless in Raleigh’s Moore Squ...