Daily Archives: January 16, 2012

There’s been a lot of talk about jobs lately.  Jobs, job creation and economic recovery will be the key issue discussed and debated during the upcoming state-wide elections.  As always, JLF will be in middle of that discussion with a detailed plan and comprehensive ideas for real economic recovery. In the meantime, the candidates’ guideContinue Reading

Hat tip: Public Secrets blog To Newsweek, Barack Obama went from “sort of God” to better for Catholics than the Pope to, finally, “God of All Things.” I confess that the last cover story caused me to ask Newsweek: What sort of god fails like Obama? Me of little faith, a dissident from an increasinglyContinue Reading

Tonight at 9 PM on FoxNews, the South Carolina GOP will host one of the last debates before the primary on January 21st. Participating in tonight’s debate will be Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry (Jon Huntsman dropped out of the race this morning). This may be one of theContinue Reading

Need more evidence that big-time sports play a major role in American universities? Duke economist and public policy professor Charles Clotfelter offers plenty of evidence in his recent book Big-Time Sports in American Universities. Clotfelter discussed key themes from his book during a presentation today to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. In the videoContinue Reading

That’s the whine coming from the Obama regime, particularly when it comes to its greatest achievement: Obamacare. Mike Tanner has a good column today that explores some of the reasons why Americans don’t trust that Obamacare is going to accomplish all the wonderful things it was supposed to. Tanner observes that “in the last fewContinue Reading

The newspaper biz is not what it once was. Among the places that newspapers across the state have cut back on is their coverage of state politics. Just a couple of years ago, the Charlotte Observer, Winston-Salem Journal, and Asheville Citizen-Times all had columnists based in Raleigh. Those columnists have since retired or moved on,Continue Reading

Outpolled by pranksters Colbert and Gingrich, he saw No wei he could win. Previous: Bachmann, Cain, Pawlenty

Professor Dwight Lee of SMU makes this important case here. While it’s an article of faith among “liberals” that increased government spending is needed to “get the economy going again” Lee explains that it just shifts resources from market-determined uses to politically-determined uses and interferes with necessary free market adjustments following recessions. Government spending doesn’tContinue Reading