Daily Archives: April 12, 2011

Another faked hate crime at UNC

Written on April 12, 2011 at 9:36 pm, by

Turns out there really isn’t an Evil Anti-Gay Branding Bigot haunting a bridge at UNC-Chapel Hill like so many Grimm trolls. Chancellor Holden Thorp sent an email this evening to students that said, in part: Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: The Department of Public Safety has determined that the alleged aggravated assault reported to campusContinue Reading

A piece on that case way beyond Nifong

Written on April 12, 2011 at 4:48 pm, by

The Independent Institute’s Anthony Gregory has a sharp piece on that case here.

ObamaCare Exchange Update

Written on April 12, 2011 at 3:14 pm, by

Live Blog Rep. Jerry Dockham is the primary sponsor of HB115, to establish a needless ObamaCare Exchange in North Carolina, but his answers in the House Insurance Committee today are worrisome for those who want to limit government intervention. A sampling: Dockham does not have any real idea of how much taxes will need toContinue Reading

Freedom, truth and society suffer when everything is politicized

Written on April 12, 2011 at 3:08 pm, by

Robert J. Samuelson’s column that Joe Coletti posted contains the following: “Once politics was about only a few things; today, it is about nearly everything,” writes the eminent political scientist James Q. Wilson in a recent collection of essays (“American Politics, Then and Now”). The concept of “vital national interest” is stretched. We deploy governmentContinue Reading

Parental choice: Free or forced?

Written on April 12, 2011 at 2:50 pm, by

Tyler Whittenberg, education and law policy fellow at the N.C. Justice Center, nails it in his latest op-ed.  By “it,” I mean the last line of the piece.  Here is the concluding paragraph of the op-ed: Would you want to send your child to a school that avoids accountability and is one of more thanContinue Reading

Solution to the illegal immigration? Fulbright Scholarships

Written on April 12, 2011 at 1:10 pm, by

The small print on a Fulbright Scholarship may surprise some people: “An exchange visitor (EV) may be subject to the two-year foreign residence requirement [if]… the EV’s participation in an exchange program was funded by the United States Government, EV’s own government, or an international organization… If you are subject to the two-year foreign residenceContinue Reading

Hood, Fitzsimon agree on redistricting reform — next, cats and dogs will live in peace

Written on April 12, 2011 at 12:51 pm, by

A bipartisan group is sponsoring legislation to create a nonpartisan legislative redistricting process for North Carolina, an idea the John Locke Foundation has endorsed. Supporters discussed House Bill 824 during a morning news conference at the Legislative Building. It’s based largely on the redistricting process now in use in Iowa. In addition to Reps. RickContinue Reading

Samuelson: “Obama urges an ‘adult’ conversation and acts like a child”

Written on April 12, 2011 at 12:49 pm, by

Live Blog Robert Samuelson’s latest column is worth reading in its entirety, but his descripti cheap lasix online on of President Barack Obama is particularly noteworthy.