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Views and Reviews by Jean McCamy It’s not perfectly clear why men started wearing pieces of cloth around their necks, but the practice dates back at least to the early 1600s, and although styles of ties have changed through the years, the practice has continued uninterrupted....

by John Hood At the precise moment I heard that longtime Republican strategist Jack Hawke had finally lost his battle with cancer, I was editing a book chapter about the 1984 race for North Carolina’s governor. It was a pivotal campaign in the state’s political history, as the...

by Russell Capps You’ve already seen the Christmas sales ads and stores with full Christmas item displays while Thanksgiving is yet weeks away.  That’s okay.   Our economy needs to flourish. But let’s not ever forget Thanksgiving,  including its wonderful, historic, spiritual...

by  Jim Tynen North Carolinians are growing more outraged as they find out what the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is really doing to their finances and their ability to control their health care. At the Civitas Institute, we have been compiling stories people have sent in about...

by Scott Mooneyham For everyone involved, maybe their public proclamation should have been, "We didn't lose! We didn't lose! We didn't lose!" Lawyers and politicians aren't in the business of providing that kind of lukewarm response, though. They certainly weren't going to start...