Daily Archives: April 13, 2012

‘High Tide of American Conservatism’ author notes John W. Davis’ birthday

Written on April 13, 2012 at 1:49 pm, by

Most people are unaware that April 13 is John W. Davis’ birthday, since most people are unaware of John W. Davis. But Garland Tucker chronicled Davis’ 1924 Democratic campaign for the presidency in the book The High Tide of American Conservatism, and Tucker honors Davis today in an American Thinker column: It is appropriate thatContinue Reading

N.C. Supreme Court sides with Ford in Mecklenburg product liability case

Written on April 13, 2012 at 1:26 pm, by

The N.C. Supreme Court ruled 5-2 today that Ford should be free from liability in a 2003 Mecklenburg County parking lot auto wreck. Attorneys for two children seriously injured in the wreck had sued Ford, contending faulty seatbelt design led to severe injuries. Ford contended that the injuries were due instead to the severity ofContinue Reading

A.G. sides with legislature in its feud with Perdue over ferry tolls

Written on April 13, 2012 at 11:46 am, by

A new opinion from Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office takes the General Assembly’s side in the debate with the Perdue administration over new state ferry tolls. “We believe that an Executive Order which directly conflicts with a law enacted by the General Assembly raises substantial concerns under our Constitution,” wrote Grayson Kelley, chief deputy attorneyContinue Reading

New at CJO: Fox News founder seeks journalistic watchdogs, not lapdogs

Written on April 13, 2012 at 10:18 am, by

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online about Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes’ lecture Thursday in Chapel Hill.

Murdock digs through the numbers linked to ObamaCare

Written on April 13, 2012 at 8:55 am, by

Deroy Murdock‘s latest column offers “hefty, huge, and humongous” reasons for repealing the 2010 federal health care reform law. The “hefty” reason? The Obama administration is diverting $500 million to the IRS to help implement the health care law. The “huge” reason? A new report from Charles Blahous for the Mercatus Center finds “Over theContinue Reading

Goldberg advises Romney to avoid pandering to young people

Written on April 13, 2012 at 8:43 am, by

Jonah Goldberg‘s latest National Review Online column urges Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney to avoid going out of his way to attract the “youth vote.” Obama’s approval rating among 18- to 29-year-olds hovers around 50 percent (after almost a year of bad press for the GOP). But a late-2011 Harvard survey found that only 12Continue Reading

Krauthammer examines ‘Buffett rule baloney’

Written on April 13, 2012 at 8:36 am, by

Charles Krauthammer‘s latest National Review Online column dissects the facts, rather than the rhetoric, associated with President Obama’s so-called “Buffett rule” for imposing a minimum 30 percent effective tax rate on millionaires. Okay. Let’s do the math. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates this new tax would yield between $4 billion and $5 billion aContinue Reading

Latest dispatches from the campaign trail: Friday, April 13, 2012

Written on April 13, 2012 at 8:00 am, by

WRAL fact checks a TV ad from a pro-George Holding super PAC in the 13th Congressional District GOP primary (WRAL-TV) Republicans Eric Troyer and Carl Ford square off in a candidate forum in N.C. House District 73 (Salisbury Post) The five Republicans vying in the 8th Congressional District share similar goals but differ on howContinue Reading