JLF > The Locker Room

• Defender of Liberty and American Patriot

  Long before North Carolina adopted a slogan, Nathaniel Macon lived up to it. For throughout his life the Old Republican preferred "to be rather than to seem." Macon reminded and warned in one congressional debate his fellow statesmen: "Our strength is in proportion to the smallness of our taxes; encumber and overload us with" [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:58pm EST
  

• Local Control vs. State Control

  This morning Charlotte Mecklenburg's School Superintendent Peter Gorman made headlines with his State of the Schools annual report: 2014 Strategic Plan, Teaching Our Way to the... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:55pm EST
  

• Duke Energy and Global Cooling--What can a denier do?

  In spite of what the global cooling deniers in the White House and in Congress have been telling us, temperatures have been dropping now for a decade--and apparently it's starting to take a toll on Duke... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:52pm EST
  

• AFPNC activists urge Hagan to reject proposed health-care changes

  People headed to U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's Raleigh office today to share their concerns about proposed federal government health-care reforms. Click play below for details. [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:47pm EST
  

• The Phony Funding Crisis

  Arthur Peng and James Guthrie of Vanderbilt University debunk the myth that public schools are underfunded: [P]er pupil spending has increased in every year for the last century, even when controlled for inflation. (There have been small exceptions, such as during the Great... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

• Uncle Sam got suckered

  The $3 billion cash for clunkers program has been one of the most popular parts of the Obama administration's assorted (de)-stimulus efforts. Well, a new AP analysis shows that, true to form, the program didn't exactly accomplish its mission with flying colors. Remember the so-called environmental benefits cash for clunkers would... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:34pm EST
  

• A liberal interpretation of the United States Constitution

  CNSNews.com asks a good question, gets a dumb answer: When asked by CNSNews.com what specific part of the Constitution authorizes Congress to mandate that individuals must purchase health insurance, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) pointed to the part of the Constitution that he says authorizes... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:07pm EST
  

• Roanoke Rapids voters toast incumbents over Randy Parton theatre

  width=330; height=280; wral_insert_video_player_6349936(width,height); Read Don Carrington's reporting on the theatre fiasco [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  

• Indy picks up on Don Carrington's work

  The Independent isn't exactly my favorite rag around, but it has an entertaining summary of the Easley board of election hearings last week. At a couple points, Bob Geary highlights Don Carrington's work on the Easley... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:29am EST
  

• Charlotte TV station spanks McHenry for parking snafu

  This category of news story tends to strike me as pointless but humorous. WCNC-TV out of Charlotte caught N.C. Congressman Patrick McHenry, R-10th, creatively parked at the airport. It's elicited quite the controversy. In fact, one could call it "parkgate." "It's... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• The glacial pace of judicial appointments

  The News & Record in Greensboro reports that Sen. Kay Hagan withdrew the nomination of N.C. Superior Court Judge Calvin Murphy for an appointment to North Carolina's U.S. District Court because Murphy recently ruled in favor of a company partly owned by Hagan's husband. The... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:28am EST
  

• Thinking on Right Wing Avenue

  Here is what I think about Lee County voters approving an additional 0.25 cent sales tax: 1. Higher sales taxes disproportionately affect the poor, so it is hardly a cause for celebration. 2. The General Assembly raised the sales tax earlier this year, so the poor and unemployed in Lee County, as [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:32am EST
  

• Black and low-income teens in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are now outperforming their peers statewide and in Wake County

  My favorite passage from the Charlotte Observer article referenced above: John Dornan, executive director of the Raleigh-based advocacy group Public Schools of North Carolina, knew about that report. But he said Wednesday he was shocked to hear that CMS, long held up as a horror story of what... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:53am EST
  

• Before you read

  The N&O published an amusing editorial titled "Before they leap," urging the Wake County school board to "proceed with caution." Here is the first paragraph: Here are some plain-truth observations about Wake County's public school system: It's successful, educating a broad range of... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:19am EST
  

• New Carolina Journal Online features

  The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Sam Hieb's report about an unlikely supporter of a targeted tax break plan in Guilford County. John Hood's Daily... [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:56am EST