Daily Archives: March 5, 2012

So, you don’t believe in welfare dependency?

Written on March 5, 2012 at 5:18 pm, by

Oh, but the NEXT jobs bill will really work!

Written on March 5, 2012 at 4:39 pm, by

A couple of weeks ago I called it “a highly cherished fiction by policymakers that they are the ones who create the jobs,” going on to compare politicians’ role in job creation with highways’ role in car creation: It’s also dangerous fiction, because these bills and programs require transferring resources and freedom from the realContinue Reading

Not what anyone would have predicted

Written on March 5, 2012 at 4:26 pm, by

Six months ago the controversial religion of this campaign was supposed to be Mormonism not Catholicism.

Governor’s Office, DPI coordination?

Written on March 5, 2012 at 2:06 pm, by

A new document available on the NC Department of Public Instruction website, Trends: Growing Student Population, Fewer Adults, Fewer Dollars, (obviously) contends that enrollment growth has outpaced education spending and personnel changes.  The major weakness of the presentation is that the author includes only five years of data. Speaking of the author, the document wasContinue Reading

The U.S. case for using drones to kill enemy combatants

Written on March 5, 2012 at 2:03 pm, by

American use of unmanned drones to kill terrorists overseas has raised a number of legal and policy questions. Is it legal? Constitutional? Good policy? Duke law professor Scott Silliman, director emeritus of the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, discussed those questions during a presentation today to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. SillimanContinue Reading

New at Carolina Journal Online: 2nd Perdue associate pleads not guilty

Written on March 5, 2012 at 12:54 pm, by

The latest Carolina Journal News Report notes that this morning Morganton attorney Julia Leigh Sitton entered a not guilty plea to two felony counts related to her work for the 2008 Perdue for Governor campaign.

The “war on women” distraction

Written on March 5, 2012 at 12:13 pm, by

The authoritarians in the Obama administration who can’t abide private institutions choosing to adhere to their own beliefs when one of its bossy support groups demands obedience (in this case, the abortion zealots; in other instances, it’s Big Labor, the greens, or other pressure groups demanding something from the government) have chosen to deceive theContinue Reading

Congratulations to The Pit

Written on March 5, 2012 at 10:28 am, by

The Daily Meal named The Pit one of the 101 best restaurants in America.  The Pit was ranked 98th and was the only North Carolina restaurant to make the list. If you ask me, the list is a celebration of entrepreneurship and individual creativity, as well as great food, service, and ambience.