Daily Archives: March 19, 2012

Garner serves as the opening setting in this Christian Science Monitor article about changes in gun restrictions within communities across the country. Thirty years after a powerful gun-control movement swept the country, Americans are embracing the idea of owning and carrying firearms with a zeal rarely seen since the days of muskets and militias. AContinue Reading

Professor Papalas explained that the Greek Socialist Party was voted into power in 1981 on a platform of welfare promises which quickly mushroomed, along with a good deal of corruption enabling party officials to become very wealthy. By the time a “right-wing” government was voted in, most of its leadership figured that it was tooContinue Reading

Health care mess in one graph.  See the discussion here.  

“You all know the facts.  There are fewer dollars in the public school system today than there’s ever been…” – Gov. Beverly Perdue, March 19, 2012 press conference We are still waiting for the NC Department of Public Instruction to report local, federal, and capital revenues/expenditures for the current school year, so I assume thatContinue Reading

If you’re searching for reasons for Greece’s current economic woes, you’ll find clues by investigating the country’s Socialist governments of the 1980s. That’s the assessment of Anthony Papalas, emeritus professor of history at East Carolina University and featured speaker at today’s John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society meeting. Papalas discussed Greece’s recent political history and itsContinue Reading

Discouraged by the unrepresentative data and misleading media coverage, Antech Systems, SkillTV.net and concerned maintenance technicians collaborated to create The Occupy a Job application. Joel Leonard of SkillTV.net notes that there are 3.5 million unfilled jobs (more than 40 percent are in skilled trades) compared to more than 14 million people out of work, yetContinue Reading

A state integrity investigation ranks North Carolina 18th out of the 50 states on metrics including access to public information, lobbying disclosure, ethics enforcement, redistricting, and campaign finance. The Tar Heel State earned a C-. The report was created by the Center for Public Integrity in conjunction with two other groups. The results are drawnContinue Reading

Give Winston-Salem Journal reporter Travis Fain a ton of credit for trying to tease out spending on early childhood education and services in North Carolina.  Fain writes, The N.C. Pre-K program has become the focus of a statewide debate over early education, but it represents only a portion of state taxpayer-funded pre-kindergarten classes. Hundreds ofContinue Reading