Daily Archives: February 17, 2012

Angel Raich opposes Obamacare

Written on February 17, 2012 at 2:31 pm, by

Amicus briefs are flowing into the Supreme Court ahead of oral arguments scheduled in the Obamacare case next month. Among them, as you can read here, is one supported by Angel Raich. Who is Angel Raich? She was the plaintiff in the infamous 2005 decision against permitting her to use marijuana for medical reasons, aContinue Reading

Second Hoke County parent comes forward saying preschooler’s lunch rejected

Written on February 17, 2012 at 1:13 pm, by

Diane Zambrano, whose daughter attends preschool at West Hoke Elementary School, came forward to Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com, reporting the same treatment another parent shared with Carolina Journal‘s Sara Burrows: School officials said her child’s lunch — “a cheese and salami sandwich on a wheat bun with apple juice” — did not meet USDA nutrition standards.Continue Reading

Another dissenter from the “educational investments” mania

Written on February 17, 2012 at 11:30 am, by

Forbes writer Louis Woodhill argues here that although politicians and educational leaders often speak about the supposedly great returns the country gets from all the money we “invest” in education (Woodhill insists on using language correctly and simply calls it “spending”) in fact we have gotten very little. I think he’s right. The vast amountContinue Reading

Wake County sustainability task force member pans the group’s work

Written on February 17, 2012 at 10:28 am, by

The final report from Wake County’s environmental sustainability task force relies too much on a flawed decision-making process, bad assumptions, and incomplete analysis. That’s the verdict of a task force member: JLF’s Michael Sanera. He’s releasing a 4,000-word critique of the group’s work in advance of county commissioners’ consideration of the document. Learn more hereContinue Reading

The Obamacare Mandate — it’s not a clash of “rights”

Written on February 17, 2012 at 10:04 am, by

In this week’s Freeman column, Sheldon Richman sorts through the bogus arguments that have been made about the Obamacare mandate regarding contraception. Philosophically clueless writers such as WaPo’s E. J. Dionne, say that this is a clash of rights which the federal government must resolve. Richman shows that argument to be rubbish. The only clashContinue Reading

Tomorrow is FAFSA Day!

Written on February 17, 2012 at 9:13 am, by

In today’s Pope Center piece, Jenna Ashley Robinson writes about FAFSA — the thick federal form students and families have to fill out if they want any of the money our generous politicians make available for college students. (Tomorrow if FAFSA Day in North Carolina.) The trouble is that all the financial information about familyContinue Reading

Murdock explains we’re voting ‘like it’s 1899′

Written on February 17, 2012 at 9:07 am, by

Deroy Murdock‘s latest column exposes the problem of “dead voters.” While Democrats dismiss vote fraud as a collective Republican hallucination, a study released Tuesday by the Pew Center for the States confirms the GOP’s concerns. The ghosts in America’s voting machines may be the least of our worries. Pew has discovered that 1.8 million deadContinue Reading

Goldberg probes Obama’s cynicism

Written on February 17, 2012 at 9:01 am, by

Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column at National Review Online explains that the man who once described cynicism as his rival in the race for president now has changed his tune. The man just isn’t very persuasive. Now Obama’s defenders, starting with the man himself, insist this isn’t his fault. He’s actually super persuasive and bipartisan, heContinue Reading