Daily Archives: April 19, 2011

Research suggests that the phrase “angry Left” is redundant: … compared to anti-redistributionists, strong redistributionists have about two to three times higher odds of reporting that in the prior seven days they were angry, mad at someone, outraged, sad, lonely, and had trouble shaking the blues. Similarly, anti-redistributionists had about two to four times higherContinue Reading

There seems to be a bit of confusion about the impact of today’s opinion from the N.C. Court of Appeals in the Wake County open meetings suit. Perhaps a direct quote from Judge Donna Stroud’s opinion might help clarify the situation: We affirm the trial court’s order which found that on 23 March 2010, defendantsContinue Reading

News from Florida: State labor officials asked their inspector general Monday to investigate why a Central Florida agency wants to spend public money to furnish the unemployed with capes.   Dubbed the “Cape-A-Bility Challenge,” a $73,000 public-relations campaign by Workforce Central Florida features a cartoon character named “Dr. Evil Unemployment” and includes handing out aboutContinue Reading

In an article titled “Mapping NASCAR Valley: Charlotte as a Knowledge Community” (Southeastern Geographer, Spring 2011), East Carolina University geographers Ronald Mitchelson and Derek Alderman explain, We refer to the locational clustering of stock car racing’s industrial activities in and around the Charlotte region as ‘‘NASCAR Valley,’’ a term inspired by a similar regional concentrationContinue Reading

Democrats are likely to make hay of a new survey by the Democratic Public Policy Polling firm asserting that the Republican agenda in the General Assembly is out of touch with North Carolinians. The release, titled “NC Republicans falling out of favor,” shows majorities opposing the GOP’s proposed cuts in K-12 education, community colleges, andContinue Reading

According to a recent AP poll, many young adults believe that their high schools did a medicore job preparing them for higher education and/or employment.  We should be using feedback from high school graduates to improve our high schools, rather than conducting the usual echo chamber reform efforts. Q. In general, how would you rateContinue Reading

Like all fifty states, North Carolina provides health care benefits for its state employees. Unlike other states, North Carolina paid for 100 percent of the monthly premium costs for a basic or “standard” health plan for individual employees plans in 2009, and was one of only seven states at that same time that paid forContinue Reading

Contrary to the line Obama and his statist allies are taking, Jagdeesh Gokhale of the Cato Institute argues that it won’t wreck “our fragile economic recovery” if Congress says no to raising the debt ceiling. Our economic recovery depends on people in business finding opportunities to efficiently produce goods and services consumers want. They willContinue Reading