If you’re convinced that government jobs programs are a good way to spend tax dollars, you might to look at the latest James O’Keefe video. As usual, James peels away the veneer and presents the unvarnished truth. You’ll be interested to learn James O’Keefe will be speaking on Friday night at Citizen Watchdog Training Conference [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Arthur Brooks: Why Free Enterprise Is the Only Moral System
This was live-blogged at the event: We’re getting ready for Arthur Brooks to speak. The room is more or less at max occupancy. Thom Tillis; “I’m proud of what our legislature did.” He notes that some Democrats supported at least one veto override, and in one of the shortest sessions since 1970. Brooks did speak [...]
Follow the Money
The N&O reports today on the indictment handed down to state Rep. Stephen LaRoque (R-Greene, Lenoir, Wayne) involving his illegal handling of government grant money to nonprofit groups he ran: State Rep. Stephen LaRoque, chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Raleigh on charges of theft [...]
July 17, 2012 Second Primary – May It Be Our Last (Second Primary)
It’s Election Day, July 17, 2012 Today is Election Day, and before the polls opened this morning at 6:30 am, 36,999 votes had been cast during the early voting period. Voter turnout in second primary elections is usually very (and I mean very) low. In 2008, with only one statewide contest (Democratic Commissioner of Labor) [...]
Don’t Forget About Other Taxes in Obamacare
The lion’s share of attention in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare has naturally focused on the penalty/tax imposed on those who don’t obey orders to purchased government-approved health insurance. It is important, however, not to overlook the 19 other tax hikes embedded in Obamacare – many of which are already in effect [...]
