Daily Archives: February 15, 2012

Here’s the scenario. Greenland is warming, ice caps are melting, and eventually, New York City is flooding. Now the problem with this story. New research from the Geophysical Research Letter, a top climate research journal, estimating 4000 years of Greenland temperature anomalies, suggest nothing unusual is going on and it has been both much warmerContinue Reading

What if I told you I was going to “reconceptualize” our public research universities into “New American Universities,” “comprehensive knowledge enterprises” committed to “perpetual innovation?” You’d probably smack me across the face and tell me to stop speaking gibberish. I wouldn’t blame you. But if I was Michael Crow, the president of Arizona State University,Continue Reading

This week, the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) decided to write a critique my 2009 report on teacher compensation. I appreciate any and all responses to my research, particularly those that take three years to formulate.  (BTW, that’s a joke.)  However, I am not going to waste my time addressing their complaints point byContinue Reading

…if you think it is progress to return to conscripting people for the purposes of the government. In the letter below, Don Boudreaux blasts a writer (who I would guess, regards himself as “liberal” or “progressive”) who wants to do just that.   Editor, The New York Times 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY  10018Continue Reading

Sara Burrows of Carolina Journal discussed her “chicken nugget” story with Megyn Kelly on Fox News.

This is the claim in the latest Chevy Volt ad, and it is absolutely true. This is true, America had to build this, i.e. it was forced to by the policy of subsidies put in place by the Obama Administration. The American taxpayer has no choice but to fork over massive amounts of their hardContinue Reading

Charlotte Observer story: CMS bus blaze echoes previous fires Quote: A Charlotte-Mecklenburg school bus that caught fire Wednesday [February 8] afternoon was the same make and model as other buses that have gone up in flames in North Carolina in the past two years, prompting state officials to send at least one cautionary memo toContinue Reading

According to this study, about two million dead people are on voter lists, and upwards of three million have active registrations in more than one state. But that’s no reason to worry about vote fraud, of course. Nope — that’s just a myth and we shouldn’t do anything to clean up elections.