I’ve been meaning to post this for a while but for some reason haven’t gotten around to it. It is an interview former NC Senator and Presidential Candidate John Edwards did with YouTube. Pay close attention to his answers to the Right vs. Privilege portion of the interview. Do you think he shares North Carolina [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
- Jun19
Medicaid: Crowd-out in Healthcare?
John Hood has an instructive post on one of the problems of Medicaid expansion: "Here in North Carolina, I think the evidence also indicates that previous legislative actions have induced many families of modest means not to enroll in private plans but instead to secure free or low-cost government insurance, thus increasing the cost to [...]
- 1Jun18
Nice ride
Catching up from late last week… Mark Binker over at the Greensboro News & Record reports on his blog that Rep. Larry Womble (D-Forsyth) is driving around a brand new Ferrari convertible. Looking at Womble’s 2007 financial disclosure report, [right-click, then "save as" if you have problems viewing it] it shows his only sources of [...]
- 1Jun18
Cosmic Ray Tax?
Uh oh. A new(ish) theory of global warming is making the rounds in a new book by Henrik Svenmark. Could he be a new Galileo in the Climate Vatican? Apparently cosmic rays may be a much more severe contributor to atmospheric warming than carbon dioxide. Back to the drawingboard for the alarmists: "The implications of [...]
- Jun18
Charter School Contradictions?
Instead of defending the decision to keep the cap on charter schools, Rob Schofield can (curiously) only point out what he sees as right-wing hypocrisy, writing in this post on charter schools: If there’s one thing the free market fundamentalists are occasionally good at, it’s yelling about government programs that don’t do what they’re supposed [...]
- 2Jun18
Voice of Reason in a Sea of Watermelons
Another skeptical climatologist calls anthropogenic climate change "hooey".
- Jun18
One Down, Two to Go
Mike Nifong went down. As he should have. There may be more troubles ahead for him, too. So be it. But what about the fate of the actual liar? If justice is to be meted out equally in this case, we can’t simply let her get off scott free. Are we to overlook her crime [...]
- 2Jun15
Elon: Lower Education
All you incoming Elon freshmen, don’t forget to read Al Goebb- uh Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Also, if you’re a student with critical thinking skills looking to transfer to a university prepared to offer an unbiased treatment of the issue? Don’t get too antsy: critical thinking has been replaced by "critical theory" pretty much [...]
- Jun15
Highest and Best Use
Jack Betts outlines the political (i.e., non-market) measures to "save urban spaces." Under the ambiguous rubric of the "common good", vocal interest groups willing to picket and put up signs in their yards are hardly willing to come up with the investment capital needed to match their stated preferences for the property. (Read: We won’t [...]