Is the Queen City’s vaunted Lynx light-rail line the next stop for virtual stripsearch scanners and junk-groping patdowns? Could be, from the sounds of Homeland Security Czarina Janet Napolitano. This from The Hill: The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists […]
In a wholly predictable response to her political mentor’s plea of ‘I’m guilty, but not guilty like that” today, Gov. Beverly Perdue is urging folks (like, I don’t know, the GOP majority that just won control of the General Assembly) to leave the past in the past and focus on moving North Carolina forward. She […]
The former governor gets a bad joke of a fine; the citizens of North Carolina get a giant one up the – This from WRAL: Former Gov. Mike Easley pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single campaign finance violation as part of a deal to end long-running state and federal investigations into his dealings with friends […]
If there were a Spin Doctorate program at Political University the requisite course would be Obfuscation 101. No one survives in contemporary American politics without a thorough mastery of the subject. Obfuscation 101 instructs the neophyte politician on how to tell voters what they want to hear while having no intention of fulfilling the obligation […]
We need them, because we are obviously too dumb and irresponsible to make informed decisions for ourselves. Following up the federal government’s decree this week to essentially outlaw adult beverages that contain a mix of caffeine and booze, the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission, at Gov. Bev Perdue’s urging, has voted to allow retailers to return […]
North Carolina lawmakers have for years been violating the state’s constitutional balanced budget requirement by playing funny money tricks with employee salaries and promised benefits, leading to a $32 billion shortfall for the state’s retiree health fund and adding at least an extra $3 billion in real-time money to this year’s projected $3 billion budget […]
In the ever increasing creep of the government nanny state into your daily life, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (in the Queen City today, by the way, to talk transit) said this week that the Obama Administration is exploring its options on how to block cell phone use in cars. This from The Daily Caller: Transportation […]
For those who haven’t read ‘The Road to Serfdom’ by F.A. Hayek, let me recommend it to you. It is one of the cornerstones of modern fiscal conservative thought. Hayek wrote it in the 1940’s and does an excellent job of explaining why government cannot do certain things without detriment to society as a whole. […]
Inveterate liar, thief, drug addict and alcoholic Jim Black is getting back into the eye doc biz. What could possibly go wrong.
That’s the message floating down from Canada, where the Albert Human Rights Commission (AHRC) recently unveiled its new taxpayer-funded “Racism Free Edmonton” campaign. According to the group’s logic, the best way to solve the problem of racism is for white people to accuse themselves of being racists, acknowledge their “white privilege,” and maybe start displaying […]
