Former Democrat US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York used to punctuate his speech with the following quote as he debated the finer points of welfare reform, entitlement reform and budget sanity: ‘You Are Entitled to Your Own Opinion. You Are Not Entitled to Your Own Set of Facts’ If the Democrat Party ever […]
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you’ve earned, but not ‘greed’ to want to take somebody else’s money.” ~Thomas Sowell Jerry Klein, in an unusual display of truthfulness, gives us a perfect example of leftist whining. In a recent edition of Creative Loafing, Klein goes on about […]
Today the TIFIA Credit Council met to review Cintra’s proposal for $189 million in taxpayer-backed bonds. Despite the fact that three fourths of toll revenues will go to the NCDOT, despite the fact that the contract has to be amended so key provisions right now are just placeholders, despite two extensions of the deadline at […]
Our nation was founded by men of courage and honor for whom preserving the Natural Law rights of the individual was a moral necessity. Their view of government contrasted sharply with the centuries-old European model in which everything was owned and controlled by the elite few. The “Revolutionary War” was really a “War of Independence” […]
New data from the U.S. Treasury shows that the federal government has amassed $74 trillion in debts, liabilities and unfunded Social Security/Medicare obligations. This amounts to$603,000 for every household in the U.S., a fiscal burden that exceeds 90% of all the private wealth accumulated in the history of America. Each year, the Treasury and White […]
Major life events. We all walk through them personally and watch them occur in the lives of those around us. From new lives birthed to graduations, marriages, careers, and the journey of growing older into retirement, no matter how diverse each one’s path may become, ironically, each journey ends the same way – with our […]
Rent seeking is the name of the game: where special interests seek special dispensation from government in order to improve their position in the market place. Today we have J. Ron Terwilliger advocating for more government intervention and support of his business. (link) Mr. Terwilliger says we have a crisis of affordable housing. He says […]
The Voter Integrity Project confirmed today that Steve Curtis Thompson II, of Pinehurst, NC was the first arrest the state has made against a person the group identified to election officials after completing their research into possible double voting between Florida and North Carolina–a project they called, “FLANC.” “It took a group of dedicated citizens […]
NCDOT and I-77 Mobility Partners (the LLC Cintra set up for the private toll lanes) extended the Financial Close deadline another 45 days. The contract signed by Cintra and NCDOT on June 26, 2104 required Cintra to post a $15 million bond which they would forfeit if they did not close on time. The original […]
By now, it appears that most of America has heard about Indiana’s recently passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and whether you have asked for it or not, opinions on the matter appear to be as plentiful and vast as the people of this great nation itself. While many states already have similar laws on their […]
