Can you imagine if you were an existing business in North Carolina and the State used your tax dollars to recruit and subsidize your direct competitor to steal customers from you, forcing you to cease operations in the State? Well, that is exactly what has happened to Allegiant Air. Many of you have followed the [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
- 1Mar31
Moore, Perdue: Debate at the CLC
Apparently, Lt. Governor Bev Perdue doesn’t like the accusation that she’s running from debates with State Treasurer Richard Moore. So now she has agreed to do two more. Let it be known, however, that the Civitas Institute invited both of the Democrat candidates to debate alongside four other candidates (Graham, McCrory, Orr, Smith) at this [...]
- Mar31
The Climate Bet
Remember the Julian Simon/Paul Ehrlich bet? Here’s one by a Wharton prof proposed for Al Gore. Check it out. And gotta love this query for Gore: “When and under what conditions would you be willing to engage in a scientific test of your forecasts?” (HT: Brian Balfour) BTW, if anyone wants a friendly side action, [...]
- Mar31
$72 million High School: April Fool’s Joke?
According to a reader: "The Local Government Commission will be meeting on April 1, to decide the debt application from Watauga County for $72 million for a new high school. This debt is being sought without a referendum."-Max Borders
- Mar31
Getting Government out of Water
Great piece by a former EPA administrator on why the government shouldn’t be in the water business and businesses should.-Max Borders
- Mar30
When Journalists Comment on Economic Matters
…you get stuff like this. First, the N&O says: The Bush era has been for businesses of all kinds sort of like a rebirth of the "free love" movement of the 1960s. Anything goes. But is this true? The slightest investigation into regulations would reveal that it is a non-partisan phenomenon and the regulatory state [...]
- Mar29
Google’s Green Parody
I can think of no more fitting irony than this "awareness raising" initiative by Google. Why such smart people at such a great company would get into this kind of goofy greenwashing? Anyway, this sums up the irony: "As to why we don’t do this permanently – it saves no energy; modern displays use the [...]
- Mar28
North Carolina: Rise of the Independents
This is very interesting (you’ve got to check out these maps):Between April 2000 and March 2008, the overall number of registered voters in North Carolina increased from 4.93 million to 5.66 million, an increase just shy of 15 percent. This net increase is the result of new registration and the purging of no longer valid [...]