The small-business sector, which is the main producer of new jobs in the United States, is rightly up in arms over a little-known provision of the massive new health care law that will create a paperwork nightmare.

Specifically, the law, known in some circles as ObamaCare, will require nearly 40 million businesses to file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.

While Democrats and Republicans in the House want to repeal it, nothing is easy in an election year.

D.G. Martin

CHAPEL HILL —  Are the days of human sacrifice long gone?

Remember that story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac and how God put an end to that sort of thing?

But the tradition continued in a way, according to the Bible, as kings of Israel and Judah regularly executed their rivals and their rivals’ children.

Just before the fall of Judah and the beginning of the exile, King Josiah, having found copies of God’s laws that had been lost and ignored by the idol-worshiping prior kings, set out to clean house.  He wanted to demonstrate to God and the people that the reforms were real.