Daily Archives: December 14, 2011

In the latest Carolina Journal Online News Report, Don Carrington outlines the charges that led Gov. Bev Perdue’s former campaign finance director Peter Reichard to enter a plea to felony charges in an Wake County courtroom today — and the troubles facing other Perdue associates. Read Don’s entire report here.

The latest Liberty Bullhorn, from Sven Larson of the Wyoming Liberty Group, highlights how doomsday descriptions of slashed state budgets have proved to be nothing of the sort. In fact, Larson notes that since 2008 total state spending has increased by 14.1 percent or 4.5 percent per year. (The data is from the 2011 StateContinue Reading

“Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind…. Any group of farmers who permitted their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum…. Some day we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty ofContinue Reading

Cato Institute’s Tad DeHaven writes here about the sort of “business development” scheme that Bev Perdue gets all excited about — but this is in Indiana, with its supposedly tight-fisted governor Mitch Daniels. (DeHaven worked for Daniels prior to moving to Cato.) Public Choice theory explains why this sort of thing is so common —Continue Reading

The question of school-lunch fraud is heating up in Albany, Ga., with three recent arrests connected to falsified information on applications for free and reduced-price lunch. Last month, elementary school principal Gloria Baker “was suspended without pay after she was arrested for failing to report her $90,000 salary on free lunch forms,” reports WALB-TV inContinue Reading

Peter Wallison of the American Enterprise Institute here calls out Barney Frank for his continuing duplicity about the housing bubble. Frank wants people to believe that the foolish (and bipartisan) policies of subsidizing home ownership had nothing to do with the bubble and subsequent financial meltdown. Frank and his fellow statists have been trying thatContinue Reading

In a letter in today’s Wall Street Journal, law professor Charles Rounds, who has written for the Pope Center on the erosion of the law school curriculum, points to an 1830 court decision that has lessons for today on the role of government: Mr. Crovitz writes that “the losses at MF Global were facilitated byContinue Reading

Daniel Allott of American Values makes good points about the cult of sports in the United States. If men devoted the same amount of time, and intensity of attention, to their marriages, families, and faith as they do to sports stats, our nation would be far better for it: The lives of millions of AmericanContinue Reading