Daily Archives: April 25, 2012
New at CJO: Republicans vie for nomination in Senate District 44 primary
The history behind ATI’s FOIA request of UVA’s emails-from Climategate to lawsuit
Latest dispatches from the campaign trail: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton leads Bob Etheridge in a new poll (WRAL-TV) Former Gov. Jim Martin endorses Richard Hudson in the 8th Congressional District Republican primary (Dome) U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell, Democrat of the 8th Congressional District, wins the endorsement of the National Rifle Association (Richmond County Daily Journal) Dan Forest picks up the backingContinue Reading
The “liberal” Obama administration ramps up the drug war
Professor Dominic Armentano writes here about a recent raid conducted by the DEA on Oaksterdam University, a trade school in California. The grounds for the raid? There were cannabis plants in the school for educational purposes. No consumption or sale. The school’s operations were perfectly legal under state law, but that doesn’t matter in theContinue Reading
Walter Williams on government growth and “tax fairness demagoguery”
One academic economist who actually understands how the economy works (and what keeps it from working) is Walter Williams. In this column, he explains that our economic malaise today stems from the federal government’s huge absorption of resources. As recently as the Coolidge administration, the federal budget was as little as 4 percent of GDP.Continue Reading
Blatant dishonesty on per-pupil ranking
Geez, News & Observer editors must be desperate. Today’s ironically titled editorial on the Republicans’ Excellent Public Schools Act, “School Truth,” includes the following whopper, Meanwhile North Carolina has dropped in per-pupil spending to a rank somewhere in the mid- to high 40s among the 50 states. Somewhere? Dropped? Earlier this month, the N&O publishedContinue Reading
Gary North on Bernanke, academic economists, and the trouble they’ve created
Gary North, an economist in the Austrian School, expounds here on Ben Bernanke, academic economists in general (particularly Keynesians), and the trouble the economy is in because of the influence of their statist thinking. Here’s a great line: “Bernanke’s problem is that academic economists are protected by tenure from the realities of the capital markets.Continue Reading
Williams explores the numbers behind Tax Freedom Day
The Tax Foundation tells us American taxpayers reached Tax Freedom Day April 17. The concept is that if you had to work to pay your tax bills before spending money on anything else — food, shelter, clothing, luxuries — you would have worked from January 1 through April 17 to be rid of that annualContinue Reading