Daily Archives: August 14, 2012

Just when I thought things couldn’t possibly get any more ridiculous, this story was brought to my attention.  A woman in Philadelphia may find herself facing a $600 a day fine.  And her crime?  Handing out meals to children in a poor neighborhood.  I know.  Scandalous.  I saw the headline and thought it was goingContinue Reading

I admire Juan Williams. While he’s mistaken in some of his assumptions, he is intellectually honest and doesn’t sink to impugning the motives of those who disagree with him. This column of his in The Hill praises Ron Paul for having dared to bring up  many issues that hardly any conventional Republican would discuss. OrContinue Reading

WRAL reports that “Dunn Mayor Pro Tem Carnell Robinson says he is fairly confident that the City Council on Tuesday will approve his proposed ban on saggy pants, a fashion statement typified by men whose underwear is visible above the waist of their pants. Under the proposal, the first two violations would result in aContinue Reading

That’s the question Roger Pilon responds to here. Candor, that is, about our fiscal situation. The Obama regime and its many hangers-on would have the people believe that the federal government is an endless wellspring of bounty. Will they fall for it? Read the piece for another Obama off-teleprompter howler.

• The candidates for governor, Democratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and Republican Pat McCrory, will meet in at least one more debate. Their third face-off is set for Oct. 24 at N.C. Wesleyan College.   • Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-7th, a senior member of the House Agriculture Committee, is leading an effort on Capitol HillContinue Reading

Warren Wilson College here in North Carolina, according to a joint survey by Newsweek and the website College Prowler. Personally, I’ve never been to Warren Wilson, but, considering the pictures of the place, this ranking isn’t so surprising–it looks like a hippie commune. Especially commune-like is the school’s work program. If a student logs 15Continue Reading

John Steele Gordon offered a Hillsdale College audience earlier this year some economic history lessons, as captured in the latest Imprimis. One of those lessons helps explains a key problem with the American legal system. [I]f Jefferson’s decimal coinage concept was a good idea that quickly spread around the world, another idea that developed hereContinue Reading

Michael Novak uses a new National Review Online column to poke at a key element of President Obama’s re-election narrative. President Obama hangs his whole campaign narrative on one legend, and it is false. The legend: that Obama began in 2009 from the worst financial hole since the Depression. Not true. The economic hole inContinue Reading