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  • Health-care reform will save money

    Are you finished laughing yet? No. OK, I'll give you a couple more seconds. Check out this blog entry and the chart below, which examine the real costs of the latest Senate [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:54pm EST

  • Special interests? Oh, they're good this year, part II

    (Part I.) Imagine, if you will, the reaction from the Left - elected officials, academics, talking heads, bloggers, etc. - to a report showing that the Bush White House met hundreds upon hundreds of times in less than a year with oil industry CEOs, lobbyists, and researchers to discuss in [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:27pm EST

  • Islam in Antebellum America

    Sometimes historical scholarship tells us more about the present than about the past. The study of Omar ibn Said, I fear, is one such case. A recent exhibit at Shaw University tells the story of Omar ibn Said, who was a slave during the antebellum era. (For more on [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:09pm EST

  • Climategate: the musical

    This is a must see You Tube musical on Climategate sung to "Dragin the Line." This version is called "Hide the Decline." [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:37pm EST

  • Charles Murray criticizes Glenn Beck

    In this blog post, AEI's Charles Murray criticizes Glenn Beck for playing fast and loose with the facts, a charge that I mostly agree with. The problem, it seems, is that Beck does not demand that his staff double and triple check the information before he puts it on the air. This is Murray's take [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:07pm EST

  • Kelo Part II?

    As reported, the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in NY) held that private property in Brooklyn could be seized and be used as part of a massive economic development project (Atlantic Yards project). The project will feature a new arena for the New Jersey Nets and high-rise [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:58am EST

  • If you wonder why Obama's folks seem flummoxed by the economy

    Consider this post and stunning chart from Nick Schulz at AEI's American blog recounting the prior private sector experience of Cabinet from every administration since Theodore Roosevelt's. As Schulz says: When one considers that public... [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:43am EST

  • Thanks, Newt

    In a lovely letter to his friends today, Newt Gingrich reminds us who to thank tomorrow. In part he says, Tomorrow we give thanks to the Creator who is the source of our sovereignty. We pause in... [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:20am EST

  • Open letter to Roy Cooper

    My post on the 20 bullies in the state legislature inadvertently went up last night while I was still writing it. You can now read the directors cut [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:01am EST

  • You might be a progressive if....

    ...you believe that government health care bureaucrats will be better than the Arlington Cemetary bureaucrats who cannot identify the bodies of fallen soldiers. The progressives at Salon are rightly upset about: Arlington National Cemetery superintendent John Metzler has told... [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:58am EST

  • Revised GDP numbers - Cash for Clunkers

    Original reports showed the economy growing 3.5 percent in the third quarter, with 30% of that coming from car sales. The revised numbers, released yesterday, show the economy growing at a slower 2.8 percent rate with car sales contributing 52% of the growth. If the auto industry growth were at all [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:48am EST

  • Another Obama power grab

    It is not enough that Obama administration is busy expanding government control over health care and energy (cap and trade), it is also trying to take over the Internet. A Washington Post article [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:32am EST

  • Creative job counting

    The departments of Commerce and Cultural Resources don't have good news to report on the jobs front, so they're making it up. With the financial sector shrinking, the state government now finds that creative jobs are more plentiful than banking jobs. That means redefining "creative" workers to include the teenager [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:19am EST

  • Government health care in Germany 1918-1945

    FEE's daily "In Brief" notes this 1993 article that recounts the progression of government health care in Germany from 1918 to 1945. While responding to the Clinton government health care... [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:16am EST

  • The invincible ignorance of Thomas Frank

    The Wall Street Journal's village idiot, Thomas Frank, does it again in his column today. Gloating over our economic turmoil, he says "We hear much less nonsense about the wisdom of markets these days." The markets that have crashed are those where federal intervention distorted incentives for... [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:56am EST

  • Dear Attorney General Cooper:

    You should investigate my actions as a policy analyst for the John Locke Foundation regarding the health insurance overhaul being debated in Congress. Twenty legislators sent a letter to you and Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin in a blatant attempt to keep Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina from exercising its... [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:23pm EST

  • I'm shocked ... shocked!

    Words cannot describe the surprise that I felt upon reading this headline in Business Week: A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade Surely this must be a joke. A government... [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:15pm EST

  • Sarbox on the chopping block?

    Those who see the negative unintended consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 might see a sign of optimism in this... [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:06pm EST

  • Bad, bad consumer-driven health care!

    That's the impression you might take away from Business Week's coverage of General Electric's move to a consumer-directed health plan. One suspects Joe Coletti [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:58pm EST

  • Mandated Health Insurance

    Does Congress have the power under the Constitution, and specifically the Commerce Clause, to force individuals to buy health insurance? The Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) has published an article arguing that Congress doesn't have the authority. George recently [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:26pm EST

  • Indispensable treatment of Climategate

    It's an unfortunate scandal name, admittedly, but I'm going with it for the purpose of calling to your attention Iain Murray's excellent summary of the issues involved. Murray is a vice president at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in D.C. and a blogging colleague of mine at National Review. Here's the' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:13pm EST

  • ObamaCare versus freedom

    In this excellent CSM article Sue Blevins and Robin Kaigh point out five of the most galling provisions in the ObamaCare bill that take away individual freedom and replace it with federal coercion. As Benjamin Franklin said, those who would give up some liberty in exchange for security deserve neither. (I [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:55pm EST

  • School attorney switch up?

    T. Keung Hui on the News & Observer's education blog points out that the Wake County School Board might soon have new attorney, if the incoming majority decides to axe its relationship with Tharrington Smith LLP. Faithful followers of state and local government politics will recall that... [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:47pm EST

  • Washington (state) can't afford its health care promises

    Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire values the care of those in her charge so highly, she may end the state's subsidized health insurance plan to save $160 million. And people wonder why the mammogram decision last week raised... [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:48am EST

  • Novartis plant ribbon-cutting in Holly Springs

    Novartis opens its influenza vaccine plant in Holly Springs today. This is the plant for which Holly Springs had to beg and borrow to cover it's promised $20 million incentives. The state [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:56am EST

  • Does Obama understand scarcity?

    You have to suspect not, given that he keeps saying that the economy is going to have a robust rebound at the same time the federal government is sucking up vast amounts of capital to fund its spending spree. In this excellent WSJ column George Melloan points out the inconvenient truth: [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:14am EST

  • Sorry kids, but politicians really care only about themselves

    That's the message in Thomas Sowell's latest column. Forget the fairy tale about how democracy gives us leaders who are smart enough to take care of your problems. It gives us "leaders" who know how to spend other people's money in ways that help them get elected and re-elected. The [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:26am EST

  • Adams and Jefferson debate the issues of the day

    Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson discussed the hot political topics of the day during a joint appearance Monday at the N.C. Museum of History. Of course, that day took place in 1808. Still, modern-day viewers will recognize many of the disputes Adams' Federalists and Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans encountered two centuries [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:10am EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online features

    The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Jim Stegall's report on Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools' efforts to institute a form of merit pay for teachers. John Hood's [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:48am EST

  • The Costs of Offshore Wind: A RI Case Study

    As I have mentioned many times, offshore wind is far more costly than conventional sources of electricity (such as coal, nuclear, and natural gas). In Rhode Island, National Grid, which is the state's largest electric utility, has rejected a proposal from a wind... [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:59pm EST

  • Hayworth may knock off McCain in Az GOP primary

    Rasmussen reports here that ex-congressman J.D. Hayworth (43%) trails Senator John McCain (45%) by only two percentage points in a poll of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters. Senator... [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:08pm EST

  • Rasmussen reports 56 percent oppose Democrats health care plan

    Rasmussen survey is reported here. Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That's the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls... [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:54pm EST

  • City Planners

    For most of us at JLF, city planners are the problem not the solution. Like many professionals, they believe their "superior" education empowers them to tell the rest of us how to live. The recent revision of the Raleigh Comprehensive Plan is just one example. Raleigh's city planners want to [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:47pm EST

  • Want to 'help' Africa?

    Find a way to make money in that continent. That's the message entrepreneur June Arunga delivered in a series of presentations this month to college audiences in the Triangle. The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy sponsored the presentations, which included this speech to members of N.C. State University's Society for... [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:53am EST

  • 18,500

    That's how many votes this clown has cast during his many decades in Congress, according to the print version of TIME. Can anyone say term... [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:52am EST

  • Once government decides you shouldn't smoke or get fat …

    … what's next? The latest TIME highlights North Carolina's latest nanny-state efforts: North Carolina this year became the second state to approve an increase in out-of-pocket expenses for state workers who smoke and don't try to quit or who are morbidly obese... [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:50am EST

  • In case you missed him …

    Don Carrington offered News 14 Carolina this weekend his thoughts about former Gov. Mike Easley's dubious Cannonsgate real-estate deal. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:49am EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online features

    The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Rick Henderson's report on the close ties between former Gov. Mike Easley and the Golden LEAF board that oversees much of the spending tied to North Carolina's tobacco settlement money. John Hood's [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:38am EST

  • ... and a pony

    Sen. Harry Reid, speaking on the floor of the Senate Saturday night, said Today we vote whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation - indeed, one of the greatest issues this body has ever face: whether this nation will finally... [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • 'Purity.' Right.

    The Sabbath is supposed to be a day of rest, so News & Observer columnist Rob Christensen chose to do no heavy lifting for the opus published today, titled "Purity may cost the GOP." The theme: The Republican Party likes to bill itself as the conservative voice of North Carolina and that [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:28am EST

  • What a beautiful day for the birth of a new tyranny

    Hard to believe on a day like today that an iron curtain would descend on our... [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:27pm EST

  • A Hail from Jerry Agar

    Our long-time friend Jerry Agar, formerly of WPTF radio, has continued to read our stuff, and is doing some good writing of his own of late. Jerry shared some of his latest thoughts on the idiocy of government wealth redistribution (never creation of wealth, mind you). in an article that [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:38pm EST

  • Re: Advice for Palin

    Michael, I completely disagree with Julie Ponzi's criticism of Palin that you highlight in your post. Palin's point isn't that the picture itself is sexist, but that the use of that [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:38pm EST

  • DC parents go after Obama

    The DC Opportunity Scholarship Program parents and supporters are going after Obama and the Democrats in Congress for their attempt to end this program that provides low-income students with up to $7,500 to pay for private school education. They are running this hard-hitting TV ad. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:52pm EST

  • The Nation beats up Lieberman

    The Nation magazine beats up Lieberman in this slide show for his stand on the Democratic health care bill. Note that there is no link or source provided the the statement, "public option will actually decrease the deficit." I guess The Nation considers the CBO... [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:22pm EST

  • Ron Paul, call your office

    Seniors and near-seniors aren't going to like this: Slate's Mickey Kaus notes a provision in HarryCare (the Senate health bill) setting up an unelected, Federal Reserve-like panel that could impose cost cuts on Medicare. [W]hat it seems to... [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:26pm EST

  • More on the Senate health bill

    Sheldon Richman tears into Harry Reid's monstrosity here. Among other points, he shows that the constitutional justification being offered ("the Commerce Clause says we can regulate interstate commerce and that means we can... [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:27pm EST

  • The Senate health care bill

    The Heritage foundation daily email "The Morning Bell" has this analysis of the Senate health care bill that will be voted on tomorrow. Last Saturday night Speaker... [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:15pm EST

  • Advice for Palin

    Julie Ponzi over at the Ashbrook Center blog No Left Turns critiques Sarah Palin's response to the Newsweek cover featuring her in running shorts here. The entire post is worth reading. Was the cover telling? Yes. But it told me more than perhaps you wanted me to... [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:49am EST

  • N.C. unemployment rates climbs back to 11 percent in October

    Joe Coletti offers reaction here and in the video clip below. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:36am EST

  • The union mentality on (ugly) display

    Michelle Malkin covers a most enlightening flap regarding government union bosses versus volunteer efforts in this column. In a move to balance its budget, a town in Ohio reduced the number of its employees, members of the Service Employees International Union. When a local... [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:50am EST

  • CNN profiles BASIS Charter School

    BASIS is one the best charter schools in the nation. The BASIS model should be replicated in North Carolina. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:42am EST

  • Elon University faculty recruiting

    The following email was forwarded to me on Wednesday: I am writing to ask your assistance in our effort to recruit candidates for two new faculty positions in our School of Education. [Snip] Elon University is a terrific place to teach and to conduct high quality research. But we are not nearly as [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:35am EST

  • Human Events profiles Ilario Pantano's efforts

    Remember Ilario Pantano? Human Events offers an update on his project StandwithIntelligence.com. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:02am EST

  • This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio

    Advocates of taxpayer-financed elections point to the results of the Chapel Hill mayor's race as evidence for their cause. But Daren Bakst questions whether one politician's victory means that taxpayer funding of election campaigns makes sense. He addresses that theme in the latest edition of Carolina Journal... [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:57am EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online features

    This week's Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features Donna Martinez's conversation with CJ Managing Editor Rick Henderson about the ongoing controversy surrounding the potential state seizure of dams and hydroelectric plants owned by Alcoa. Kristen Blair's... [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:50am EST

  • Stefanie Spielman dies of breast cancer at 42

    Per NBC Sports: Stefanie Spielman, who took her battle with breast cancer public with the help of her husband Chris Spielman, died... [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:17pm EST

  • Insert Nancy Pelosi joke here

    Consider this, from The Associated Press, on the elaborate plans to minimize federal red ink in the Senate Democrats' health care legislation: Reid's bill relies on cuts in future Medicare spending to cover costs, as well as higher payroll taxes for the well-off, a new levy on patients... [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:57pm EST

  • Re: Government education stifles creativity

    Great comments, George! The "Taxpayers and Arts Education" Headliner Luncheon (Thursday, December 03, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.) will assess the relationship between government education, creativity, and the arts. The panel features Max... [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:46pm EST

  • The House health care bill

    Clint Bolick at the Goldwater Institute has this analysis of the House bill. As with any proposed law, the devil is in the details of the health care bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. At 1,990 pages, 8-1/4 inches in girth, and according to Arizona Republic columnist Doug MacEachern with [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:27pm EST

  • Government education stifles creativity

    Pianist, teacher, and composer Jennifer Warren-Baker writes here about her experiences with government schooling -- specifically how it stifled her musical creativity. We're fortunate that Mozart and Beethoven didn't have to spend their formative years sitting in a public school. Music education is one of the last really free markets left... [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:41pm EST

  • Huntersville teacher receives Milken award

    The NC Department of Public Instruction has the details here. Cynthia Rudolph, a biology teacher at Hopewell High School in Huntersville (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools), today was named North Carolina's 2009 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award recipient. Rudolph is among more... [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:56am EST

  • Courting Cunningham again

    Just as a quick follow-up to my Daily Journal column today on the Democratic nomination fight for U.S. Senate: A Democratic friend tells me that, as some had predicted, the Washington Dems are now going to make another try at getting Cal Cunningham to run. This may include a visit [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:57am EST

  • In case you missed him ...

    Meck Deck's Jeff Taylor questioned five-figure bonuses for the Mecklenburg County and Charlotte city managers in an interview Wednesday with Fox Charlotte. [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:30am EST

  • Drew Cline on Obama's suave dealings with other rulers

    Our old friend Drew Cline, who's now at the Manchester Union-Leader up in New Hampshire, writes here about the difference between the sort of sophisticated president most people thought we'd get with Obama, and the reality. Drew has the nerve to call Obama a buffoon whose arrogance prevents him from [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:02am EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online features

    In case you missed it Wednesday, the latest featured Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Rick Henderson's report on the appearance of former Gov. Mike Easley's campaign manager before a federal grand jury in Raleigh. John Hood's [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:49am EST

  • Mind of the South

    Although historians disagree regarding W.J. Cash's conclusions about the Old and New South, they agree that all serious scholars of Southern history and culture must be familiar with Mind of the South. In it, the North Carolinian predicted the [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:21pm EST

  • Harvard Med School dean gets it right

    In today's Wall St. Journal, Harvard School of Medicine Dean Dr. Jeffrey Flier identifies all of the major problems facing the American health care system. As he points out "tax policy drives employment-based insurance; this begets overinsurance and drives costs upward while creating inequities for... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:30pm EST

  • Wednesday afternoon humor courtesy of the Onion

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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:39pm EST

  • Eco-nannies target our TV sets

    The advocates for the eco-nanny state, after going after the toilets, washing machines, dishwashers, light bulbs, automobiles and other planet ruining choices we have made, are now targeting our choices in TV sets. And of course, they are starting their crusade in California (Is there any doubt that the CA [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:03pm EST

  • Garner and Urban Planning

    Now Garner wants to build up its downtown. The town has tried to take steps to revitalize the downtown, but it has failed. From the News and Observer article about this new "vision" for Garner: To make this plan succeed, property owners in the Main Street and Garner Roadareas would have [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:17pm EST

  • 'The Greatest American Hero' then and now

    Fox News does the world another great service. They profile the cast of "The Greatest American Hero" on their Then/Now... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:47pm EST

  • RE; Docs and mammograms

    As Kathleen Parker noted today, the release of this report comes at a really lousy time for supporters of Obamacare. A government report urging people to limit the use of a costly screening procedure that's long been touted as a lifesaver should make people nervous when that same government... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:03pm EST

  • Leave those entrepreneurs alone

    A new National Bureau of Economic Research paper written by Silvia Ardagna (Harvard) and Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth) argues that entry regulation discourages entrepreneurial activity. Furthermore, individuals who report having business skills are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in countries with higher entry regulation.... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:33pm EST

  • Re: a pluperfect example

    I'd like to know how much money we're wasting on the government office that puts out this false and deceptive crap. Send them all packing and stop blowing money on propaganda... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:21pm EST

  • Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Cap and Trade

    Many companies are supporting cap and trade because they will make lots of money if it passes (e.g. General Electric) or they think it is better for their bottom line to be at the table working out this bad policy instead of fighting it. I'm sure there are other self-serving [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:56am EST

  • Doctors oppose government panel's mammogram recommendation

    Good Morning America never mentioned that the mammogram rationing recommendation was made by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a panel appointed by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Just seven years ago, the same panel said women should get mammograms starting at age 40. [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:52am EST

  • A pluperfect example of government incompetence ...

    can be found in Coletti's link this morning. Regular incompetence would be mistaking how many congressional districts... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:53am EST

  • Re: Jobs "created or saved"

    For those wondering how many phantom districts there are nationwide in the recovery plan, the answer is 440 with $6.4 billion credited to... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:51am EST

  • Easley campaign manager Jay Reiff appears at the U.S. courthouse

    Jay Reiff, who managed former Gov. Mike Easley's 2000 and 2004 campaigns, and the unsuccessful 2008 gubernatorial campaign of former state Treasurer Richard Moore, showed up about 8:45 this morning at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, where a grand jury is hearing testimony in the Easley probe. Reiff was accompanied [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:06am EST

  • Does going to college add to human capital?

    That's the subject of my Clarion Call piece today. The education establishment assumes that students add a lot to their mental toolkit by taking college courses, but I doubt that that's true for many of them. To keep weak and indifferent students happy enough to stay enrolled, many schools have [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:04am EST

  • 98.3 jobs "created or saved" in NC Congressional districts that don't exist

    According to the federal government's recovery.org the stimulus is working so well, it's creating jobs in places that don't exist. A couple highlights: $3.9 million in stimulus projects created or saved 2 jobs in the 37th... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:59am EST

  • Obama's invincible ignorance

    Obama blathers away about how the government must "rein in" businesses that are "too big to fail." The crucial point he fails to grasp is that if it weren't for governmental actions creating moral hazard (such as the guarantees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), institutions of all sizes would [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:08am EST

  • The world refuses to bow back

    That's how Michael Barone describes the response to President Obama's efforts to appease the community of... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:54am EST

  • Reagan and Ike? Really?

    In making a case against Sarah Palin for Newsweek's latest cover story, Evan Thomas offers the following surprise: The two greatest postwar presidents understood this. Dwight Eisenhower governed in the 1950s by deftly uniting center and... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:12am EST

  • Speaking of John Hood ...

    I recalled his latest missive on ObamaCare while reading Robert J. Samuelson's new Newsweek column on the Obama administration's health-care reform... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:10am EST

  • An addition to John Hood's reading list

    The latest Newsweek previews a new biography of John's favorite president: Polk is easily our least-known consequential president. He fought the Mexican War; expanded the Union by settling claims to Texas and the Oregon Territory and by... [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:09am EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online features

    The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Karen McMahan's report about a 14-year-old eastern North Carolina boy whose life story and death inspired others to fight big government. John Hood's [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:01am EST

  • About that mammograms-can-wait report that Doesn't Prefigure Future Obamacare Rationing One Bit, II

    Hey, NFL? You remember "A Crucial Catch," your October breast cancer awareness-raising campaign? Well, never mind! The government says that catching it early's not that crucial after all! P.S. If you say "rationing" one more time, you're like a [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:50pm EST

  • About that mammograms-can-wait govt. report that Doesn't Prefigure Future Obamacare Rationing One Bit

    I am reminded that the late, great Kay Yow, former NC State women's basketball coach, was originally diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 45 years old. The cancer claimed her life 21 years - and countless [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:15pm EST

  • Second Amendment rights explored

    The nation's highest court has confirmed that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is an individual right in federal jurisdictions. The lead counsel in the case that set that precedent, District of Columbia v. Heller, discussed the current state of gun rights during a lunchtime presentation to the John Locke [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:34pm EST

  • Are they clueless, or despotic?

    That's the question economist Richard Rahn asks about the members of the House who supported the ObamaCare bill in this column. Actually, Rahn makes a good case that the answer is "both." Voting for legislation that punishes people for not wanting to buy something that the nanny statists say we must all [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:15pm EST

  • Re: Allowing walkable cities

    Joe, I don't think we have much hope for NC planners. You can take a look at NC's Transit 2001 plan, that is still featured on the NCDOT site to realize that NC planners come from the same line of thinking as the planners in Virginia. They think their job is to [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:16am EST

  • Re: Don't make me laugh

    Now we know for sure. The government option will not cover routine mammograms for women under 50. And then they will be covered once every two years. What's next? I predict it will be PSA tests for men. After all, we can't discriminate. Do we want to know what the [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:49am EST

  • Don't Make Me Laugh (or Cry)

    Today's headlines concerning new rules on access to mammograms - changing the previously recommended regime from regular screening beginning in ones forties to reducing the frequency of screenings by half for women beginning in their fifties, is no mystery whatever. This is [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:15am EST

  • Education Next article on school lunch fraud

    The editors at the Hoover Institution's Education Next were kind enough to let me contribute an article on school lunch fraud to the winter 2010 issue. The article is also available online here. While doing research for the article, I went through the [ardently] laborious process of collecting F&R lunch verifications... [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:48am EST

  • Allowing walkable cities

    Tyson's Corner, Virginia, will be Metro-accessible in 2013. This line from Governing Magazine struck me: Near the transit stations, developers will be allowed to build at much higher densities, in exchange for creating the grid of streets, parks and affordable housing that Tysons never... [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:27am EST

  • Re: Inequality

    I agree that inequality is not necessarily bad, but object to Hasset's formulation that if "a society" directed most of the rewards towards the wealthy, that would be bad. "Society" is just an abstraction. In a free society, individual decisions determine who gets how much. American society did not determine [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:19am EST

  • Stadium, 127 acres, bargain price

    The Pontiac Silverdome, which was built for $55.7 million of taxpayer money in the early 1970s, ($220.7 million in today's dollars) sold for $583,000... [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:08am EST

  • N.C. Appeals Court sides with state in funding fight with hospitals

    A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling favoring the state in a legal dispute with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, Duke University Medical Center, WakeMed, Mission Hospitals, N.C. Baptist Hospital, and Moses Cone Health System. The issue is whether officials who run [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:55am EST
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