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Miscellaneous Archives
- 1Sep18
#3 with a Bullet!
Wanted to thank all you readers out there who have made Red Clay Citizen the #3 "Most Influential" Political Blog in North Carolina according to the website blognetnews.com. (Yeah, we’ve never heard of them either, but it’s my favorite website now!). We’ll continue to work hard to try and take over #1, but that Beckwith [...]
- Sep14
Reagan Dinner: Inner Banks Eagle Coverage
Dean Stephens of Inner Banks Eagle attended the Michael Reagan event last night and covered it well.-Max Borders
- Sep13
NC Kids Care in Trouble — Thankfully
In spite of Democrat majorities in both chambers, the U.S. Senate and House are having a tough time agreeing on how much they want to spend — $35 billion (Senate) or $50 billion (House) — to expand SCHIP: the federal program that provides health insurance for children whose families make too much to qualify for [...]
- Sep13
Gangs in North Carolina
A NYT article on gangs in North Carolina predictably questions whether stricter law enforcement measures are really the solution to controlling the rise in gang activity. After all, it hasn’t worked in Los Angeles – so why should it work in Durham? What the NYT fails to note, however, is that L.A., along with Durham [...]
- Sep12
Human Trafficking and Illegal Immigration
As this report from Greenville County, South Carolina, suggests, illegal immigration does more than just exploit both foreign and American workers, it also facilitates the exploitation of women and children via international human trafficking rings. According to Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute, “Mexico is the number one source for young female sex [...]
- 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 [...]
- 1Aug22
Blue Marionettes Looking for Strings?
I normally wouldn’t give any space (much less thought) to the mean-spirited gang of pink-bedizened hatchetmen over at BlueNC. (I’d much rather tangle with a more responsible and reflective group like those at NC Policy Watch. At least with NCPW you’re far more likely to get an honest debate instead of ad hominem attacks, venom-spitting [...]
- Aug13
Light Rail: Is it really all that light?
Hey Charlotte: sit up and pay attention. If you wanted light rail because you thought it would help with climate change and energy consumption, Randall O’Toole is going to put that little theory to the test here. Read over the course of the week for the rollout of his results. If I know Randall, the [...]
- Jul25
Stem Cell Circus
On Wednesday, proponents of stem cell research failed in their efforts to gain public funding for HB 1837, “The Stem Cell Research Health and Wellness Act,” which would allocate $10 million in public funds to nonprofit organizations for stem cell research. Informed by leadership that there was little chance money would be made available for [...]
- Jul18
Smell Something Fishy in the Papers? Wiki-it!
There is a new Wiki site out called MediaMythbusters.com, that may be as powerful as blogs in checking bias and mendacity in the media. Distributed systems brought down the fauxtography scandal in the Lebanese conflict, as well as the falsified papers used Rathergate. As I have said before, bloggers and readers are the only real [...]
- 9Jul17
More Fitzsimon Follies
In yet another diatribe over at NC Policy Watch, Chris Fitzsimon continues his crusade to see to it that the government gets its hands on more of your money – this time you should be punished for selling your house via a transfer tax. He attempts to discount part of the Realtors argument against the [...]
- Jul17
Glaring Omission
In this press release, NC Policy Watch trumpets the results of their opinion poll. They appear quite excited about the results of several questions, with topics including "tax cuts for the rich", the "temporary" sales tax, transfer taxes and a host of other tax-related issues. Conspicuous by its absence from the press release, however, is [...]
- Jul06
Bloggers & You: Checks on Sloppy Journalism
North Carolina, due to the Charlotte Observer and the News & Observer, gets much of its information from McClatchy. McClathy is one of the outlets cited for running more of the sloppy (read: fabricated) journalism coming from Iraq; in this case, the original source was the Associated Press. “20 Beheaded Bodies Were Found On The [...]
- Jul05
Will they publish anything?
Standards are dropping for Letters to the Editor, apparently, according to this Locker Room post.
- Jun21
Rock the Patch?
Cigarettes: The delivery system is wonderful to be sure; but they’re not good for you. Still, the drug in there – nicotine – is currently being directed toward therapeutic uses, as this Wired article explains. (There is a Winston biotech company mentioned in the article, too. Sorry disappoint lefty conspiracy theorists: I received no money [...]
- Jun12
Sweden, North Carolina
Here’s a US map redrawn with states as countries, by comparable GDP. Check it out.
- 1Jun08
Under the Dean Dome
My heart was broken this morning when I learned via Under the Dome that coach Dean Smith, a man I’ve long admired, will be hob-knobbing with John Edwards. I will always respect and admire our coach, despite this guilt by association. Still it’s disappointing. Next thing you know I’ll learn that Mike Krzyzewski is a [...]
- Jun07
Handbags at 10 paces!
Wow! The Alabama Senate sure knows how to spice things up. Good thing Rep. John Rhodes is no longer around or this might give him some ideas.
- May18
Bias v. Bias?
Now if this isn’t biased, I don’t know what is. I’m just waiting to see if Binker (Capital Beat) and Beckwith (News & Observer) will fairly and balanc-edly eviscerate this poll as they attempted to do with Civitas’s. In this N.C. Policy Watch poll, nearly every question is loaded.