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BC Democrat chief offers critique of Civitas poll Print E-mail
Friday, 06 August 2010
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Charles Carter

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following commentary, which has been cut slightly, was written by Charles Carter, chairman of the Buncombe County Democratic Party:

This past Sunday the conservative financiers of the Civitas Institute and the John Locke Foundation turned its attention on Asheville and Western North Carolina to coach Republican US House candidate Jeff Miller. Here are Miller’s top three lessons from the power brokers at Civitas.

Lesson #1: Don’t release a poll that shows you getting your butt kicked.

“The [Civitas poll] results are more favorable to Miller than a poll his own campaign released last month that showed him trailing 46 percent to 34 percent,” notes the Asheville Citizen-Times on August 3, 2010. Apparently Civitas didn’t like Miller’s own poll numbers. So they came up with new ones.


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Stop the paperwork nightmare Print E-mail
Friday, 06 August 2010

ThSample Imagee 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.


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Human sacrifice: sometimes a distasteful necessity Print E-mail
Friday, 06 August 2010

 

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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.


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