Individual mandates are one of the centerpieces of the Democratic reform plan as well as one of the most highly contended parts of the legislation. Half of the Nation’s states are standing up to government imposed health insurance mandates, and now so is North Carolina. Under the Dome reports, North Carolina House Minority Leader Rep. [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
- Jan19
NC GOP Leaders Taking On “Obamacare”
NC Republican Senate leader Phil Berger and House leader Paul Stam, along with NCGOP leader Tom Fetzer, announced a legislative initiative to combat the possibility of Obamacare passing in Washington. The new initiative is aimed to protect individual decision making ability with respect to personal health care. The announcement was made during a joint press [...]
- Jan19
NAACP Not Representing Its Members on Wake Schools
The NC chapter of the NAACP has been quite vocal in its support of continuing the Wake County Public Schools policy of busing children across the county in order to achieve “diversity.” They have even gone so far as to introduce race-baiting terms like “resegregation” to the debate and more or less call opponents of [...]
- 1Jan19
Himalayan Glaciers NOT Melting After All. . .
It is nice that debates are starting to occur on the matter of man made climate change. For the past decade such debates have largely not existed. Two points here: 1) Debates about climate change are healthy and might actually lead to greater scientific truths and understanding and 2) We might well move away from [...]
- Jan19
An Obama Year In Review
Courtesy of Breitbart, these are some interesting numbers from the Obama Administration’s first year in action. 7,949.09—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 20, 2009. 10,609.65—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 15, 2010. 13 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as of January 2009. 14.7 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as [...]
- Jan18
Obamacare – At What Cost?
It seems as if the Obama administration is willing to do just about anything to get their health reform bill through Congress. The entire legislative process seems to be quickly degrading into a startling number of out-of-control bribes and closed-door negotiations. Most notably in the last few weeks: the “Louisiana Purchase” to win the support [...]
- 1Jan15
Feminist Icon Lectures to East Carolina
East Carolina University hosted feminist icon Gloria Steinem on November 6 to give a lecture titled, “Reflection on Feminism.” Anthony Papalas, professor emeritus of history at East Carolina University, reviewed the lecture for the Pope Center for Higher Education. Here are highlights of his review: She graciously granted “honorary women” status to the males in attendance.To [...]
- Jan15
States Standing Up to Oppressive and Costly Insurance Mandates
Over half of the Nation’s states are standing up to health insurance mandates by introducing state legislation protecting individual rights. Both the House and Senate health reform bills contain health insurance mandates that will force every American to purchase health insurance that meets the standards set in place by the government. Those who choose to [...]
- Jan15
State Committee Continues to Examine Sales Tax on Services
In a joint meeting of the state Senate and House Finance committees yesterday, further discussion of North Carolina’s sales tax was the main focus. Specifically, members were briefed on which services North Carolina currently taxes and those that could potentially taxed if lawmakers decided to broaden the sales tax base. Were the sales tax to [...]
- 1Jan15
A funding crisis in public education? What crisis?
Jim Guthrie and & Arthur Peng have a most interesting article (The Phony Funding Crisis) in the latest issue of one of my favorite periodicals, Education Next. Instead of accepting the usuaal ”sky is falling “rhetoric which surrounds education budget negotiations in most states and districts, Guthrie and Peng analyze the data and reveal some surprising [...]