14 Jul 2017

Posted at 12:47h in The Friday Brief by

Republicans currently face the near impossible task of repealing Obamacare and passing a replacement bill that will not cost them politically. At their core, Republicans are loathe to add additional entitlement spending to an already broken federal budget, but no political alternative exists because, since its...

26 Feb 2016

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We had some really bad weather this week in North Carolina (as did other places in the Southeast). Between tornadoes and severe thunderstorms and all that accompanies those events, it was probably enough to make you think more deeply than you're accustomed to about what's really important.

05 Dec 2014

Posted at 13:11h in The Friday Brief by
It hardly seems possible (is it a tryptophan-induced illusion?), but somehow Thanksgiving is in the past and Christmas will be here in less than three weeks. That sentence is not meant to cause widespread panic among our readers who haven't even begun to think about holiday shopping, though we would understand if it did. Thank goodness for the Internet, right?