* The Appropriations subcommittee on health proposes "massive" cuts to state programs, some legislators call for tax hikes instead.

* Former Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Mike Munger proposes an alternative way of thinking about the Apple incentives.

* Conservative columnist David Frum takes the rivalry between Carolina and Duke to a whole new level: Tuition. (Hat Tip: Jon Ham)

* Charlotte Observer columnist Jack Betts eulogizes Jim Stephenson, policy analyst for the N.C. Coastal Federation, who died Thursday.

Jon Ham points out an error in yesterday's Dome (and today's print edition).

We wrote that Mitt Romney was attacking Mike Huckabee for "channeling" John Edwards, then said that Huckabee and Edwards are the only two Southerners left in the race.

"Fred! would beg to differ," Ham writes on his Right Angles blog.

We stand corrected. Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee is indeed still running for the Republican presidential nomination.

In our defense, he is currently polling in fourth place in South Carolina, fifth place in Florida, sixth place in Michigan, sixth place in California, fifth place in New York, and fifth place nationally.

And, in our hearts, he's still the district attorney of New York City.