Daily Archives: June 21, 2012

…the first time you ever heard the words “fast and furious” uttered on any of the news programs you typically watch was yesterday.

Fails the theoretical test, fails the empirical test, yet continues to dominate the thinking of elites and ruling classes all over the world. “The ability to sustain assertions without any evidence is another sign of the strength and persistence of visions.”—Thomas Sowell

I have to admit most NPR shows are, to put it gently, not to my liking. However, they are now exposing the lunacy of occupational licensing, and I commend them for this audio segment and article. Click here or below to listen (4 minutes): They rightly note that members of many professional organizations are simplyContinue Reading

You’d almost think this was a parody in The Onion. The University of Minnesota-Duluth is helping to push a campaign denouncing “white privilege.” Read all about it here. This ought to get taxpayers in Minnesota hopping mad. Hat tip: Susan Lewis

Michael Barone applies his electoral number-crunching expertise to the case of white working-class voters and their importance to Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. White working-class voters — or white voters without college degrees, the exit-poll group most closely approximating them — are now a mainstay of the Republican coalition. Ronald Brownstein, a clear-sighted and diligent analystContinue Reading

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush discusses with National Review Online readers the decisions to be made in the upcoming elections. There is little doubt that President Obama favors one form of governing, and that is what I call the government of One. One Ideology, One Party, and One Man. In his first two years inContinue Reading

• GOP lieutenant governor candidate Tony Gurley says he’s focusing more on face-to-face meetings in his runoff bid, unlike the media buys he made in the initial primary. Rival Dan Forest has been on the road for months.   • Candidates in the runoff election for superintendent of public instruction and state Senate District 44Continue Reading

John Hood shares with National Review readers his thoughts about the potential impact of N.C. Democrats’ recent controversies on the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. The entire article from the dead-tree magazine is not yet posted online, but the lead paragraph offers a nice preview. “Well, you crazy people, is this the Democratic partyContinue Reading