Daily Archives: May 23, 2012

As the Rocky Mount Telegram and Carolina Journal noted this morning, North Carolina legislators are considering “educational access” options for “non-public education.” This legislation would allow corporations to divert up to $40 million of their taxes to nonprofits that would grant scholarships to children of low-income families to attend private schools. Although one may wish to seeContinue Reading

A little while back I pointed out how silly it is to counter the argument that wind turbines kill birds with the argument that cats kill more. So here’s two questions for those geniuses who still think the argument is somehow relevant; how many bald eagles will be killed in a year by a newContinue Reading

In the old Locker Room I listed several notorious (and sometimes downright hilarious) examples of the socialist revision of truth to make it politically expedient. These include such euphemisms as “fake but accurate,” falsehoods that are “essential truths,” etc., you know, the everything-is-political world of “fictional documentaries” with “no fixed truths” where “certain lies areContinue Reading

That’s the title of a devastating Daily Caller article by Roger Pilon. He is commenting on the arguments by statists to the effect that opposition to Obamacare and most of the New Deal expansion of federal power is beyond the pale. Pilon replies that the expansions of federal power have destroyed the rule of lawContinue Reading

Gallup reports that the number of Americans who self-identify as “pro-choice” on the issue of abortion has reached a record low of 41 percent. Americans now tilt “pro-life” by a 9 percentage point margin (51 percent identified as “pro-life”). Significantly, the poll found that more independent voters are identifying with “pro-life”: The percentage of politicalContinue Reading

A breakthrough technology announced earlier this month by the Department of Energy has got to be sending carbophobes everywhere to the rubber room. It is new technology that will allow the extraction of what are called methane hydrates. Which are superabundant but not, until now, feasibly tapped. Here is what the Department of Energy announcementContinue Reading

Sara Burrows reports for Carolina Journal Online about a march and rally outside the state Legislative Building in favor of new “opportunity scholarships” to help more North Carolina students afford private education.

Here’s a message to Beverly Perdue, Walter Dalton, Joe Hackney, Martin Nesbitt and all the other progressives who propose tax increases to offset the fiscal responsibility and restraint the new North Carolina General Assembly put in place with their 2011-13 budget:  progressive tax plans that promise to soak the rich always hit the middle class.Continue Reading