Daily Archives: March 27, 2012

Could taxpayer funding for elections really be over in North Carolina?  There was no additional funding in 2010 and neither was there in 2011 with a new more fiscally conservative majority in charge.  And now,  according to a recent news report…. “state election officials only have $500,000 leftover from 2008 to distribute. That’s not aContinue Reading

Our friend Max Borders (now located in Austin, TX) is working on a book. You can read about it — and his request for help in funding it — here.

In my American Thinker piece (below), I asked the question: If Obamacare is upheld, what next? In this piece, Cato’s Gene Healy offers a highly plausible answer — the health busybodies will use the power to mandate health insurance to dictate whatever rules they would like to impose regarding “healthy lifestyles.” If we must purchaseContinue Reading

President Obama has released a new campaign video dubbing Generation Y “Gen44,” in honor of Obama as the 44th president: A better designation: Generation “Why?”

An analysis reported on by Roll Call finds that Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill use Twitter more effectively than do their Democratic counterparts: Though lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have embraced social networking as a way to communicate with their constituents, Republicans might be doing it better. A 20-page report released late lastContinue Reading

On American Thinker today, I write about the sad divergence between the actual Constitution and “constitutional law” — which is to say, Supreme Court decisions that declare what justices think the Constitution should mean. The context, of course, is Obamacare. Defenders claim that “settled law” (that is, past Court decisions on the scope of theContinue Reading

Last night I made a presentation to the Wendell town commissioners about the JLF’s “Review of the Wake County Transit Report.”  Before the meeting, I had a pleasant conservation with the Wendell city manager, Teresa Piner.  She was interested in my previously published comments about the Raleigh food truck issue.  This morning I provided herContinue Reading

Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest National Review Online column discusses the extent to which the Trayvon Martin case has exposed one of President Obama’s flaws. [W]hat had seemed from media accounts to be a racist first-degree murder, horrifically covered up, on closer examination might have been either second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, some sort of criminal negligence,Continue Reading