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Obama’s first-term chickens coming home to roost
Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It's a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph - not even the first page - of the account of the Obama administration in the history books.
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Managed-care Medicaid a proven failure when NC already succeeding
Managed-care companies know that actuarial risks are best spread over a wide population where healthier, covered lives cost less, freeing resources for the sickest. Medicaid expansion, being rethought in all states except ours, is key to increasing the risk pool. We failed.
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Burr's bill would put much-needed track and trace on our medicine
More than 30 states have disparate laws to track drugs along the supply chain. As a result, states with more relaxed laws inevitably attract bad actors who seek to introduce illegitimate products into the distribution chain. A national system is desperately needed.
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Unbelievably, politicians play politics with public health
While air quality has improved in the 40 years since Congress passed the Clean Air Act, 40 percent of Americans still live in communities with unsafe levels of pollution. I find it hard to understand why elected officials in Raleigh and Washington can knowingly threaten decades of gains to secure...
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In 3D printer frenzy, guns are just the first shot
Cody Wilson, who describes himself as a “crypto-anarchist” and almost certainly wears a Second Amendment belt-buckle, had a bright idea early last year. No government could ever oppress its people again, reasoned the 25-year-old law student at the University of Texas, if everybody ...
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What our changing military mission means for NC and the country
The Pentagon must decide how to continue with peacekeeping and state-building operations like Kosovo as major wars come to an end and budgets fall.
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How school vouchers successfully customize education, change lives
The debate over a private learning option for poor schoolchildren in North Carolina has a familiar ring to it because Florida faced similar fears a dozen years ago. But a targeted and accountable scholarship can strengthen our commitment to equal educational opportunity by giving more tools to the...
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Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage from Obama
Overhyping Benghazi will only diminish the importance of the scandal. Focusing on the political effects plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming this is partisan politics. Let the facts speak for themselves. They are damning enough.
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IRS rules need to take the politics out of tax-exempt groups
President Barack Obama's decision on Wednesday to fire the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service was a largely symbolic demonstration of anger and authority. The official, Steven Miller, was not directly involved in the misguided decision to single out tea party groups for special ...
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JIM JENKINS
Jenkins: Russell Allen was a real pro doing a good job for Raleigh
The firing of Raleigh City Manager Russell Allen might have been inevitable, but the city is losing a highly competent professional.
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President Passerby asleep at the wheel on AP phone records
Richard Nixon was a control freak. Barack Obama seems to want no control over his administration. President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.
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