Daily Archives: May 8, 2012
JLF, Carolina Journal offering up-to-the-minute election results via Twitter
You’ll find the latest news on North Carolina election results via Twitter from Rick Henderson (@deregulator) and David Bass (@davidnbass).
Unborn babies considered fully human for purposes of White House tours
According to this article in the Washington Free Beacon the White House Visitors office is requiring registration of unborn babies as White House visitors. Here’s the entire article: The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child—still residing in utero—must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a WhiteContinue Reading
How politicians threw teens and the poor out of work out of compassion for teens and the poor
In 2009, I warned: So in two years, the federal minimum wage has been increased by nearly 41 percent. Such a massive increase in the price of low-skilled labor will lead to much fewer jobs for low-skill workers, the poorest among us. Demand curves slope downwards. Not that I used any particular gift of prophecy.Continue Reading
Troubling things about amending the state constitution
In thinking about the Amendment One debate today, I’m struck by two troubling items: 1. A constitutional amendment imposes a legal preference of the current generation upon future generations. Regardless of the issue at hand, an amendment to the state constitution should not be the sort of thing that can happen with the assent ofContinue Reading
And the wild things cried, “Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so.”
Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are and other wonderfully illustrated and written children’s books died today. He had this to say about one of his fans… “Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimesContinue Reading
Talking the talk
Bloomberg.com offers a great headline this morning: Obama Hits Syria With Brutal Blast of Adverbs For those who question the president’s commitment to a robust foreign policy, writer Jeffrey Goldberg offers the following reassurance: Some critics say the U.S. has shamed itself by not intervening aggressively on behalf of Syria’s rebels and dissidents. They’re wrong.Continue Reading
Another interesting take on the Warren controversy
Daniel J. Flynn offers Human Events readers this morning a different take on the flap surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage. Flynn is concerned less about the degree to which Warren used that heritage to get a Harvard professorship than he is about what Harvard’s hiring of Warren says about the school and its homeContinue Reading
JLF budget expert notes N.C. government spending reached a record high in 2012
We’ve heard a lot during the primary election campaign — and we’ll hear more during the upcoming legislative session — about the impact of state budget cuts. But Fergus Hodgson informs us in a new John Locke Foundation report that North Carolina state government spending reached a record level in this 2012 budget year, bothContinue Reading