Daily Archives: November 28, 2011

Last week the Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC) J. Thomas Rosch remarked that accountable care organizations (ACOs) could lead to more expensive health care and lower quality of care.  Specifically, he said, “The net result” of ACOs, “may therefore be higher costs and lower quality health care—precisely the opposite of (PPACAs) goal.” ACOs are the health law’s main tool for supposedly making the USContinue Reading

As I noted back in July with The Future of Freedom Foundation: The “Amazon” tax neither generates revenue nor creates a level playing field. It does eliminate profitable relationships and drive companies out-of-state, but that hasn’t stopped elected officials from plowing ahead obstinately. Since then, more evidence has come down against the ploy to tax out-of-state companies—notablyContinue Reading

Carolina Journal‘s Don Carrington has been reporting on campaign irregularities linked to Gov. Beverly Perdue since summer 2010. You’ll find all of Carrington’s work on the topic here. Three of the stories led to Carolina Journal page one exclusives: September 2010: Perdue campaign advised Stubbs on flights October 2010: Why did Perdue campaign not useContinue Reading

Three associates of Gov. Bev Perdue have been indicted on felony charges related to flight irregularities during the governor’s 2008 campaign, Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby announced today. Trawick Hamilton Stubbs and Juleigh Lee Sitton have been charged with obstruction of justice and filing false reports, while Peter Anthony Reichard faces a single countContinue Reading

Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? What on earth possessed the Kansas governor, a Republican, to make an issue out of a high-school girl’s post on Twitter? Emma Sullivan, a high school senior, tweeted “Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person” after listening to the RepublicanContinue Reading

The New York Times credits “the hidden hand of thousands of Obama for America volunteers and staff members” for carrying Democratic candidates to victory in North Carolina. How did they do it?  According to the NYT, “Never publicizing their work, they went door-to-door across the state, successfully getting their voters out to the polls inContinue Reading

Listen to former Vice President Al Gore and people with similar views about global warming, and you might expect coastal North Carolinians to float away in the not-too-distant future. All that warming could lead coastal sea levels to rise more than three feet — submerging a large chunk of eastern North Carolina. But David Burton,Continue Reading

A second batch of emails to and from leading alarmist global warming scientists shows that the politicization of climate science continues.  Here is AEI’s Ken Green on the emails: Had the scientists involved in Climategate 1.0 really given things a good airing and taken some transparent steps to distance climate science from political perversion, IContinue Reading