Daily Archives: March 24, 2011

The magic washing machine

Written on March 24, 2011 at 3:18 pm, by

Live Blog Hans Rosling again tells another great story with statistics, this time with a personal account about economic progress and how steel, chemica viagra cheapest online ls, and electricity become books. HT: Max Borders

How moral crusading makes us look stupid

Written on March 24, 2011 at 2:27 pm, by

A recent blog post by Rick Hess nails it: One of my least favorite things about education is how eagerly we turn sensible discussions into bizarrely polarizing moral crusades. Aided by competing, mindless invocations of “it’s for the kids,” we manage to turn otherwise sensible discussions about school accountability, teacher evaluation and pay, school choice,Continue Reading

Former Rep. McMahan offers thoughts about the municipal broadband bill

Written on March 24, 2011 at 1:29 pm, by

A new Carolina Beat column features former Mecklenburg County Republican Rep. Ed McMahan’s thoughts about the bill designed to restrict municipal broadband services: The cities involved with MI-Connection, for example, took on $92 million in debt to purchase the local cable system out of bankruptcy, even though a private provider was willing to buy andContinue Reading

Hey, y’all, we got our own Offensive Speech Tunnel! (Or, just how absurd can the NC State diversityniks get?)

Written on March 24, 2011 at 1:23 pm, by

Right Angles has a post about how Multicultural Student Affairs at NC State is proud to subject students to a Tunnel of Oppression: “People may have never been placed in these types of situations, and they obtain a sense of what it actually feels like to be oppressed or discriminated through the sights and soundsContinue Reading

New at CJO: Lawmakers to resume debate on Sunshine Amendment

Written on March 24, 2011 at 10:59 am, by

David Bass’ latest Carolina Journal Online report focuses on a proposed Sunshine Amendment involving N.C. public records.

Wind energy takes another blow

Written on March 24, 2011 at 10:37 am, by

I wish I could claim credit for the headline, but it paraphrases the lede of a new Human Events article from Brian Sussman: Wind One is the 400-foot-tall wind turbine owned by the town of Falmouth, on the southwestern tip of Cape Cod.  The residents of Falmouth initially welcomed Wind One as a symbol ofContinue Reading

Obamacare and medical care efficiency

Written on March 24, 2011 at 10:33 am, by

They are very much at odds, writes Scott Gottlieb in this AEI piece.

Human Events documents an ‘energy choke’

Written on March 24, 2011 at 10:26 am, by

Regular readers of this forum have seen plenty of discussion of the harmful economic impacts linked to government policies proposed to promote “green jobs.” Now Human Events weighs in with an editorial on the topic: Our economy is just beginning to feel the choking grasp of soaring fuel prices around its throat. Growth requires motionContinue Reading