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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
Former President George H.W. Bush 41 once called Ronald Reagan’s ‘supply-side economics’ ‘voo-doo economics’ when he was running against Mr. Reagan for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. And then after 8 years as Vice President to President Reagan, President Bush actually took the necessary steps to implement the first critical spending cut part of those […]
In a recent segment of her Emmy-Award winning television show, Rachel Maddow, an MSNBC host with a doctorate in political science from Oxford University, claimed that: State government budget deficits in Kansas, North Carolina, and New Jersey are “huge,” because their Republican governors have cut tax rates. Cutting tax rates invariably leads to lower tax revenues. The […]
If food were free, would we all be eating steak? Certainly not in the past or today’s America, and likely not in the future. As alluring as the pipe dream of “utopia” may be, the human brain is simply not wired to accept passive compliance with mediocrity. Hypothetically, if all beef on earth were […]
