Daily Archives: February 6, 2012

Lt. Colonel Daniel L. Davis, writing in the Armed Forces Journal on the war in Afghanistan: How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding and behind an array of more than seven years of optimistic statements by U.S. senior leaders in Afghanistan? No one expects our leaders toContinue Reading

Nearly 30 years old today, the Weather Channel almost died in its infancy. But despite early financial losses, founder Frank Batten pushed the unique cable television network forward until it gained great success. That’s one of the facts freelance writer and former newspaper reporter Connie Sage shared today while discussing her book Frank Batten: TheContinue Reading

Jim Dorn of Cato Institute has a good piece on Forbes in which he discusses the Federal Reserve’s policy of depressing interest rates to almost zero. That policy keeps the federal government’s prodigious borrowing costs down, but here is the downside: “By pegging nominal interest rates at artificially low levels, the Fed is penalizing millionsContinue Reading

A three-judge panel will allow claims that a Republican-crafted redistricting plan is racially gerrymandered to proceed to trial. At the same time, the judges dismissed other claims brought by Democrats and civil rights groups: The panel dismissed claims that the maps violated the state constitution because they were drawn in an “arbitrary and capricious” mannerContinue Reading

American Enterprise blogger James Pethokoukis suggests five books Mitt Romney and Barack Obama ought to read to get a grip on economics. He says that the list could easily grow to 50 and he’s right. I would add Murray Rothbard’s Power and Market, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson, and for a current book onContinue Reading

There’s quite the controversy heating up over at Chapel Hill. It seems the university administration and some students aren’t happy about the right of free assembly–specifically the right of a Christian singing group to restrict membership to those who adhere to Christian beliefs. And a 2010 Supreme Court decision has given the campus thought policeContinue Reading

After having its appropriation from the General Assembly slashed last year, the Governor’s School of North Carolina has sought funds from other public and private sources. One of those is the Golden LEAF Foundation, which is giving $175,000 in grants to the N.C. Governor’s School Foundation. That will allow the school to offer its summerContinue Reading

Una de las razones por las que Obamacare levantó tanta oposición fue porque muchos se temían que esta ley aumentara decisivamente el control del gobierno sobre las opciones médicas de los americanos. Las voces de los defensores de la ley de salud del presidente Obama afirmaban que eso era falso y que no se estabaContinue Reading