Month: June 2011
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Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics: Facts that speak for themselves
EVER WONDER WHY THE RECOVERY from this current recession is taking so long? Historically, sharp economic declines are followed by steep bounces back up. But not this time. The other…
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Extemporizing on temporary taxes, North Carolina edition
THE LAST TAX, THE LATEST TAX, the next proposed tax, is, as always, “just.” (By “just” I don’t mean justified or righteous, I mean “mere” as in “just one cent.”)…
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Crime and pun-ishment: There oughta be a law
This week’s column is taken straight from local agency reports. Orange County police blotter UNC campus police report that a graduate assistant doing a large-scale experiment with caustic liquids was…
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Think you have problems? My wife left me for a younger man
A FEW WEEKS AGO my wife left me for another man. (I know what some of you who know her are thinking, but no, it was not Earl Scruggs —…