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  • 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

  • The value of inequality

    Kevin A. Hassett admits in the latest National Review: "The distribution of income has gradually become more unequal. Within the United States, that fact is incontrovertible." What Hassett doesn't endorse is the notion that increased inequality has been bad: Inequality is, after all, the... ' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:12am EST

  • National Review highlights the Kinston election case

    Here's what the print (dead-tree) version of NR has to say about the bizarre case of Kinston's nonpartisan elections: Eric Holder's Justice Department strikes again. In Kinston, N.C., two-thirds of the 15,000 registered voters are black. Discriminatory barriers to... [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:11am EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online features

    The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features David Bass' report about a recent Council of State debate about dubious billing connected with North Carolina's air-quality lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority. John Hood's [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:02am EST

  • Pelosi and the Stupak amendment

    It looks like Pelosi and company aren't losing much sleep at the Left's anger over the pro-life Stupak amendment. The American Spectator's Prowler quotes an annonymous Democratic aide: "Fine. Let [the groups]... [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:38pm EST

  • Improvements in middle-school science textbooks

    You might remember a report from a few years back that decried the poor quality of middle-school science textbooks used across the country. Full of errors and lacking any coherent sense of the scientific approach, the textbooks attracted the criticism of John Hubisz, visiting faculty member at N.C. State's Department of [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:38pm EST

  • Good grief -- how irresponsible can Congress be?

    In this City Journal article, Edward Pinto writes about the economic damage that has been done by the Community Reinvestment Act -- that piece of political grandstanding that undermined bank mortgage standards in order to achieve the dubious goal of increasing home ownership. Would you believe that there's legislation in the [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:11pm EST

  • North Carolina Constitution

    To foster state constitutional literacy and remind Americans and North Carolinians concerning the importance of constitutions and the rule of law, JLF's North Carolina History Project started The State of Our Constitution series and conducted three symposia dealing with the North Carolina constitution and taxation, property... [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:44am EST

  • Well, gee, Mr. President, if you don't want people 'criticizing [you] all the time ...'

    ... maybe you should hew to your campaign promises of, for example (I'm not spending the time this morning to compile all your abandoned campaign promises), open, transparent government cutting government spending increasing government accountability reducing the federal deficit, and lowering people's taxes rather than... [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:02am EST

  • The AP misses Hazlitt's lesson yet again

    Gosh, families are really struggling this year because of the economy. That's why they need to be mugged by the General Assembly to help a subset of struggling families pay for their kids' college! That's the gist of the article this morning. Every time I read something like that, I [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:45am EST

  • Defending a non-answer

    It is always rare for a politician to actually answer the question asked, but does the media normally try to make it seem as though answering a different question is the same thing as answering the question proposed? Read this excerpt from a NY Times article detailing a town-hall style meeting [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:42am EST

  • Re: Why the urgency?

    Mitch, Former president Clinton got it exactly wrong when he said, "It's not important to be perfect here." Legislation that spells out rules in 2,000 pages of excruciating detail and establishes a new bureaucracy that will control the health and lives of 300 million people needs to be perfect. We have... [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:44am EST

  • Will Obama's "jobs summit" help?

    No, argues Peter Schiff in this sharp article. Jobs and productivity are going down due to the anti-capitalist, anti-investment, anti-entrepreneur course of Obama's statist agenda. If he wants more jobs and productivity (not necessarily the same thing) he'd have to do an about-face on his whole project of "remaking" America. [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:24am EST

  • Why the urgency?

    We learn in the latest TIME some of the contents of former President Bill Clinton's recent health-care pep talk to Senate Democrats: "It's not important to be perfect here," Clinton told reporters after his private lunch with the Democratic Senators. "It's important to... [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:09am EST

  • Just what I was afraid of

    If you're a fan of the original version of "The Prisoner," chances are pretty good that the libertarian, anti-statist themes resonate with you. Before watching the first portion of AMC's remake, I approached the task with some trepidation after reading this portion of TIME's unsympathetic [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:08am EST

  • The problem with debt

    Fans of Dave Ramsey might enjoy this profile from the new Atlantic, which focuses on Ramsey's efforts to help consumers learn to spend within their means. It's a shame politicians have yet to learn the lessons of the [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:06am EST

  • Armey's remarks

    If you missed former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey's featured remarks just before FreedomWorks led a taxpayer march Saturday from the state Legislative Building to the Capitol and back, click play below. [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:05am EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online features

    The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Karen Welsh's report on North Carolina's improving air quality. John Hood's Daily Journal focuses on the... [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:55am EST

  • You might be a progressive if...

    ...you believe Obama when he says his stimulus package has created jobs while all the statistics show there has been a net job loss since O was... [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:15pm EST

  • You might be a progressive if...

    ...when confronted with the claim that the Fort Hood attack was a case of Islamic terrorism you respond with the total non sequitur that that there are millions of Muslims who are not terrorists and that there are many Muslims surving honorably in the US Military. [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:05pm EST

  • Re: Could it be simply about the mode of attack

    Recall that not even the March 2006 terror attack in Chapel Hill was deemed a terror act by authorities. This despite copious evidence of Mohammed Taheri-Azar's motive and [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:52am EST

  • Could it be simply about the mode of attack

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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:15am EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online exclusive

    David Bass has been busy this afternoon: His latest CJ exclusive offers an update on the controversial Citizen-Soldier Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:41pm EST

  • Keynesian even he doesn't believe in, Nov. 2009 edition

    Months ago I observed: ... the basis for the spendstravaganza is the supposed need for government money to stimulate the economy. That is the core of Keynesian policymaking, that government money (either through taxation, debt, or artificial money creation) will stimulate spending, which will stimulate... [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:15pm EST

  • Clay Aiken: "Waaaaah!"

    Clay Aiken is, well, achin' about the Wake County School Board's new conservative majority. WakeEd Blog has the weepy details: In a blog post on his web site... [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:47pm EST

  • Dr. Krugman's magic, cure-all elixir!

    No matter what the illness, Paul Krugman has the cure -- more federal coercion! To stop rising unemployment, the obvious answer is for the government to adopt rules against firing workers. Don Boudreaux (a real economist and not a party hack) comments on Krugman's latest baloney in this letter: Editor, The New [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:32pm EST

  • New Carolina Journal Online exclusive

    The latest CJ Online exclusive features David Bass' report about education reformers who still hope to pursue at-large elections for future Wake County school board races. [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:20pm EST

  • UNC-Chapel Hill gives Citizen Soldier program a face-lift

    The embattled Citizen Soldier Support Program at UNC-Chapel Hill is "significantly restructuring" its mission, according to a UNC-CH press release. The changes come after an internal review found evidence that CSSP has a poorly defined mission, a spotty record on personnel... [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:42am EST

  • Etheridge's Dithering on Senate Run

    Know what you mean, but at the same time a risk-averse guy like Bob is gonna want assurances he will get top-shelf support from the national effort. Trouble is, they cannot do that right now, not with Reid, Dodd, and possibility of a Terminator-Boxer cage match all looking to suck [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:38am EST

  • ACORN and the housing bubble

    This Wall Street Journal piece makes it clear that pressure from ACORN was a crucial element in the destruction of mortgage standards. In view of the constitutional question about the authority of Congress to control and mandate health insurance, it's worth asking what constitutional authority there is... [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:19am EST
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