On Thursday, January 17th, the Lake Norman Transportation Commission (LNTC) met in Mooresville to discuss the group’s future plans, how to remain relevant, and hear presentations on the impacts of growth in the LKN Area. (See below for video of the meeting, courtesy of Jay Privette.) Attendees including elected officials, staff, and other interested parties talked […]
It’s not often a technology comes along that truly changes the course of human history. Usually when we’re told “THIS” will change our lives it’s a sales pitch or someone hyping some gadget we don’t really need. In my opinion, for example, the iPhone (and just about everything else with an “i” in front if […]
The left is going after big money in politics now in a big way. Actually, it is trying to delegitimize the funding by free market heroes such as Charles and David Koch while sanitizing its own. One of the problems with the left critique, however, is that there isn’t too much money, big or otherwise, […]
A lot has been said about gun control recently, and today the President announced many changes to current gun laws, while referencing our nation’s “rich hunting and sporting traditions.” It seems that every time the gun control debate heats up again, federal politicians always discuss hunting and target shooting, while selectively ignoring the true motivations […]
Higher taxes, less freedom, more fraud, and lower quality medical care for millions… just by expanding Medicaid. ObamaCare apologists in Raleigh keep pushing Pat McCrory to take all that “free” federal money and expand Medicaid (medical welfare) to cover people who earn more than what the government considers the “poverty line.” But if North Carolina […]
Now that Jerry Richardson and his Carolina Panthers have finally made the long expected demand for millions in taxpayer subsidies for the billionaire’s middling NFL franchise — albeit in a shockingly cowardly, undemocratic, and secretive manner even for Charlotte — there glows a bright line for Mecklenburg’s conservatives to rally to hold. No fuzzy logic […]
Mr. Pete Kaliner informs us that WRAL starting something new, a website tracking the new Republican Governor’s promises. Mr. Kaliner seems somewhat bemused by the entire affair, thinking that either WRAL has just entered the age of the Internet or is concerned that a Republican might not be exactly what WRAL thinks Raleigh wants. I […]
According to a new presentation from the Bipartisan Policy Center, if Congress fails to increase the debt ceiling the US government will default on its debt somewhere around February 15th. Following that, the government would be forced to make payments based solely on revenue (tax payments). This is exactly what the Republicans in Congress SAY […]
Albert Jay Nock, in his “Theory of American Education,” described a good education in the 1890s: After the three R’s, or rather for a time in company with them, his staples were Latin, Greek, and mathematics. He took up the elements of these two languages very early, and continued at them, with arithmetic and algebra, nearly all the […]
There’s an urban legend besetting the urbane that capitalism is a system of privilege designed for the Ebenezer Scrooges of the world. Not so. Capitalism works at least as well for us Bob Cratchits as it does for misers, probably better. Capitalism is the only proven mechanism by which the workers of the world may […]
