Daily Archives: August 16, 2012

In this American Spectator article, history professor Burt Folsom and his wife Anita compare the recent scheme of Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren with the vote buying practiced by FDR. Politics tends to favor the unscrupulous. As Hayek noted, the worst tend to get on top.

Back in May, the USDA expanded the acceptance of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards at farmers’ markets. This expansion requires an additional $4million for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to increase access to healthy food for low-income communities. This $4million will be allocated to states to set up EBT programs at farmers’ markets. NorthContinue Reading

• Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-10th District, and Democratic opponent Patsy Keever offer a feisty opening to the fall campaign.   • It’s not technically a campaign event, but a Sept. 25 appearance at Wake Forest University’s Wait Chapel by President Obama’s debt commission chairs, Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, is likely to attactContinue Reading

A friend mentioned hearing red-tailed hawks screaming the other day. Asked what that was about, he found this link to explain: It’s all the work of a pair of Red-tailed Hawks and their offspring. At least one young bird, fully fledged and flying around, has been screaming for the better part of a week. Actually,Continue Reading

An editorial from the Shreveport Times about Louisiana’s film incentives hits on some of the same criticisms I have of North Carolina’s film incentives: We all enjoy seeing the movie magic at work in our streets here in Shreveport-Bossier City. We welcome the occasional glimpse of film stars in our midst whom we might otherwiseContinue Reading

None other than Maureen Dowd gives us a glimpse at an ungrateful President Obama… Stories abound of big donors who stopped giving as much or working as hard because Obama never reached out, either with a Clinton-esque warm bath of attention or Romney-esque weekend love fests and Israeli-style jaunts; of celebrities who gave concerts forContinue Reading

I’m not sure I like the name Kirsten Powers applies to the youngest generation of American adults, but my fellow Generation X-er certainly makes an interesting point in a new Daily Beast column about that generation’s reaction to new Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. We hear incessantly about how members of today’s screwed generationContinue Reading

Richard Epstein contends in a column posted at The Daily Caller that supporters of the 2010 federal health care law might come to rue the day that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that law as constitutional. During the legal struggles over the ACA, its defenders both on and off the Supreme Court took for grantedContinue Reading