Daily Archives: April 4, 2011

Environmentalism isn’t dead, but its role as an important force in American politics and public policy has faded to the point at which it’s hard to find a pulse. Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute and Pacific Research Institute made that case during a presentation today to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. InContinue Reading

Quoth he: All of us know what those challenges are today – a war with no end, a dependence on oil that threatens our future, schools where too many children aren’t learning, and families struggling paycheck to paycheck despite working as hard as they can. We know the challenges. We’ve heard them. We’ve talked aboutContinue Reading

Well, we at the Pope Center have done all the research for you! Or at least Jenna Robinson has. Today is the launch of our new website, NC College Finder. You can use it to compare the size, cost, location, political leanings, and a whole smorgasbord of other useful data on all of our state’sContinue Reading

  The last two weeks I have written about Joel Ario, head of the Health Insurance Exchange within the US DHHS and his comments on health reform insurance exchanges.  For further follow-up, here’s a little nugget that the White House couldn’t have been thrilled with,  “[If] the Exchanges work pretty well, then the employer can sayContinue Reading

Live Blog Clive Crook in this morning’s Financial Times forgets how we got to this point in state and federal budgets. The federal stimulus was mos viagra without prescription tly absorbed in offsetting the automatic tightening of fiscal policy by individual states, whose borrowing is strictly constrained. … Now the federal stimulus is running downContinue Reading

It’s rare to see President Obama compared to Harry Truman. But Garland Tucker, author of The High Tide of American Conservatism, has found at least one good point of comparison. He explains in a recent column published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: President Obama should be worried. The recent lower court rulings against the constitutionality ofContinue Reading

Do we need a longer school day and/or school year to help our students “compete in the global economy”? If you’ve paid attention to Terry Stoops’ work, you already know the answer. TIME offers more evidence for this view in a new feature focusing on education in Finland. The Finns are as surprised as muchContinue Reading

Daren Bakst and Roy Cordato have been warning you about federal regulators’ efforts to clamp down on carbon dioxide emissions. The latest TIME features an interview in which Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson sheds more light on the topic. A key point of contention is EPA regulations that could be coming on greenhouse gases.Continue Reading