I'll do you one better, Francis. The Hair Braider Licensure Act (H291). Is there really a reason that government needs to be involved in this? $10 a year so the government can know who is braiding hair? Really?
Monthly Archives: March 2009
- Mar25
Are your feet hurting?
If so, Senator Fletcher Hartsell (R- Cabarrus) wants to make it more expensive for you to make them feel better.
- Mar25
Liquor taxes & budget savings
Governor Perdue has proposed increasing the tax on liquor with a 5% surcharge to provide more tax dollars for state government. At the same time she wants new alcohol taxes she proposes to eliminate state funding for the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. We get more money if people drink the same amount and we get even more [...]
- Mar24
The Netherlands: Is this our future?
The message is care of our friends at Salvo, a good magazine dedicated to destroying the cultural myths that undermine human dignity and diminish traditional morality. Forget, the wooden shoes, windmills and tulips. The unvarnished truth is the most powerful weapon against progressive delusions.
- Mar24
NC Comm. Colleges & Illegals: More Mayhem
Illegal Immigrants are a source of revenue and it costs campuses too much to verify immigration status. Those are two of the preliminary findings delivered by a consultant at yesterday’s meeting of the State Board of North Carolina Community College System. Last fall the board hired a consultant to "study" whether the 58 community colleges around the [...]
- 2Mar24
Bill Introduced to Provide Greater Access to Affordable Health Care
A North Carolina Senate bill filed late last week by Sen. Phil Berger (R – Rockingham) would allow North Carolinians access to health insurance plans authorized in other states. Such a move would lower the number of uninsured in NC and lower health insurance costs for many North Carolinians. Under current law, North Carolina citizens [...]
- 1Mar23
Population Politics
Barry Smith, Capital Correspondent for Freedom Newspapers has a piece out today about the effects of North Carolina's growing population on this state's representation in Congress. We could be in line for another seat in the U.S. House of Representatives after the next census. Barry brings up the point that the fighting over redrawing the [...]
- 2Mar23
Semantics
Seems to be a lot of discussion today (Dome 1, 2, 3, 4 and G'boro N&R) on Elon's poll results on the marriage amendment. A lot of the discussion centers on the varying poll results between Elon's poll and ours. I would argue there are differences in the wordings of the questions that do not [...]
- 1Mar23
New American Tea Party Hits Raleigh!
Community organizers of a different stripe gathered in Raleigh this weekend to display their anger about the stimulus, big government and ever increasing taxes. The movement known as the New American Tea Party flooded the grounds of the state capitol with a coalition of conservative groups. A crowd of about 300 got a steady stream [...]
- Mar20
NC Comm. Colleges & Illegals: More Mayhem
Illegal Immigrants are a source of revenue and it costs campuses too much to verify immigration status. Those are two of the preliminary findings delivered by a consultant at yesterday’s meeting of the State Board of North Carolina Community College System. Last fall the board hired a consultant to "study" whether the 58 community colleges around the [...]