Small-government Republicans in Raleigh have a super-sized addiction to irony.
The more they preach the gospel of reducing the size of government, the more humongous and overbearing they seem to make it.
So far, theyâve poked their noses into local tree-cutting and civil rights ordinances, the fates of local statues and memorials, various and sundry issues on individual UNC System campuses, public notice advertising in newspapers, and school board and city council elections, to name only a few.
Now, some of them are hell-bent on dissolving the N.C. High School Athletic Association and replacing it with a new state commission appointed by politicians.