prac·ti·ca·ble [prak-ti-kuh-buhl] adjective 1. capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution. This one word in the North Carolina Constitution is always brought up when the issue of higher education is discussed and the method and means of how to pay for it are considered. Article IX, Section 9 of […]
Since its inception, Dr. Dan’s Freedom Forum has been an advocate for the Free Market as a basis for economic growth and upward personal mobility. Individual freedom, the absence of coercion, is derived from combining the ability to choose one’s future course of action with accepting personal responsibility for the outcome of one’s decisions. Competition […]
In early April the NCDOT announced they had selected Cintra, a Spanish company, as the contractor for the I-77 toll lane project. (As it turns out, the Cintra bid was the only one recieved.) Under the terms of the contract, NCDOT will donate the remaining public right-of-way and grant Cintra an exclusive concession to design, […]
My Republican Senate colleagues and I unveiled what we believe is a groundbreaking plan to provide North Carolina public school teachers with an average 11.2% permanent pay raise beginning July 1. This new teacher pay plan will move North Carolina from the 47th ranking for overall teacher pay to 27th in the current national rankings! […]
*Editor’s note: The following is a letter from the Chairman of the NC Libertarian Party. Regardless of your political affiliation or ideology, the idea of encouraging more open ballot access should be considered a positive. Ideas and the people who espouse them should not face such hurdles in running for office as they do now. […]
When President Obama and the progressives in Washington rammed Obamacare down our throats it was based on the promise (lie) that it would “fix” the problems with the American health-care system. By now it should be obvious to everyone that the Affordable Care Act was nothing more than a government power grab designed to give […]
In reporting on the Navy’s reported new acquisition of helicopters for the president to be delivered in 2020, The Washington Post opens: The last time the Pentagon tried to upgrade the president’s coolest ride — the fleet of helicopters that drop him at his doorstep on the South Lawn of the White House — it didn’t go […]
By now you have heard the story of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release from Taliban captivity. This should be a feel good story, but layers keep unraveling. Nevermind the fact that President Obama has now seemingly changed US foreign policy to include negotiation with terrorists, but word is beginning to leak that Bergdahl himself isn’t just […]
In an op-ed about the Obama administration’s pending regulation of greenhouse gases from coal-fired electricity plants, Paul Krugman recently declared in his New York Times column that: the international community will join together to curtail greenhouse gases if only the U.S. would do so. the regulatory costs of “saving the planet would be remarkably cheap.” solar energy will make […]
