With the decision last night by the Orange County Commissioners that they were not going to put the transfer tax on the ballot this fall, it meant that the big three Triangle counties (Wake, Durham and Orange) have all deferred on putting the tax on the ballot this year. Funny thing is, it was the [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
- Aug31
Healthcare: Coletti Spells it Out for the Demogogues
This is an excellent piece on some of the issues in healthcare reform. Those who blindly blame greedy corporations for our healthcare woes never look to the actual source of all the pathologies — the government. Coletti doesn’t go as far as to accuse the left of trying to destroy healthcare markets with regulation. For [...]
- Aug31
Disaster: Look not to FEMA, Look Locally
North Carolinians, exposed as they are to Atlantic hurricanes, can look to the experience of certain segments of New Orleans for direction. Or at least we can ask the question: why has the Vietnamese community come out so much better than other communities in the Big Easy? This study by folks at the Mercatus Center [...]
- Aug30
Illegal Immigrants and Identity Theft
It’s often said that most illegal immigrants are decent, hardworking folks who only want to come to America to work. But what happens when they have to break the law in order to obtain employment? During a recent raid at Smithfield Foods in Tar Heel, North Carolina, investigators found that 86 percent of workers arrested [...]
- Aug30
Easley: Do One Good Thing Before You Go
After all that Easley has wrought, he might actually do something right.
- Aug30
Climate Change: So Much for Consensus
From DailyTech: Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. …[H]e examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, of which DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising. Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave [...]
- Aug29
Turner’s Teaser
Steve Turner’s teaser follow-up at the Progessive Pulse is worth a read, and the comment section is happening. Check it out. This is a long overdue conversation between market liberals and redistributionist progressives. -Max Borders
- Aug29
Correcting the Myths About Charter Schools
Charter schools rob money from the public schools. That’s an oft repeated claim from charter school opponents and from many of those who favor retaining the current cap on charter schools in North Carolina. Is the claim true? A new Issue Brief from the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and authored by Bryan Hassel [...]
- Aug28
Water: Raleigh’s Soviet Rationing is Failing
The politicians are all in a tizzy about Raleigh’s water shortages. Maybe they could use, oh, I don’t know: PRICES! Prices allow people to make rational responses to scarcety. Water markets are the best way to conserve water and institute prices (Duh.) Brian Balfour has pointed out on this blog before that if we go [...]
- Aug28
Exposing the “Bipartisan” Energy Takeover
Check out a kind of expose I did here for Capital Research Center and their excellent GreenWatch team. In it I discuss the National Commission on Energy Policy, particularly their mild-mannered approach to pillaging the energy sector and monkeying with the economy — all for the sake of "bipartisanship". You can see how our infinitely [...]