Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek’s landmark work entitled “The Road To Serfdom” was published originally in 1944 as World War II entered what Churchill would have called “the beginning of the end,” even though months of devastating, destructive, and costly war still lay ahead. Just as the allied and the axis powers battled for military supremacy, […]
Will the truth set you free, or is that notion outdated? In a business, personal, or spiritual sense the truth unquestionably sets you free. However, in politics the truth will earn you scorn and a stint in the doghouse. Senator James Forrester (NC-41) has experienced this phenomenon first hand. During a recent speech Sen. Forrester […]
Like so many others, I was nearly paralyzed with anxiety last spring as the economic landscape was darkened by recession, massive layoffs, and corporate implosion. As a public school teacher, I thought I was in a ‘recession-proof’ industry. I was wrong. Even the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system (to which I am still faithfully employed) was not […]
Amidst all the hubbub about Senator Jim Bunning holding up the unemployment extension bill last week was one ‘inconvenient truth’ the news media always failed to point out when they were throwing beanballs to his head just like, well…just like the All-Star Phillies pitcher, Jim Bunning did to any opposing batter who was crowding ‘his’ […]
So, it was just about one year ago that conservatism was declared to be a thing of the past; just over a year ago that conservatives were told that our time in the sun had come to an end and we were invited to simply, thank you very much, fade away. As conservatives took stock […]
In mid November 2008, shortly after the Obama election and at a time when the entire U.S. economy, for several months, had been rapidly sinking, Professor Peter Brews, Associate Professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School (UNC-Chapel Hill), spoke to a luncheon group in Charlotte about the, then current economic situation. Most striking was his opinion […]
Spiders are truly amazing creatures. They feed by ensnaring their prey in a craftily, durably constructed, but largely invisible web. These stealthy arachnids then proceed to fatten themselves by methodically sucking the very lifeblood from their unsuspecting victims. In comparison, the modern era vampire legend of Dracula seems like a children’s bedtime story — perhaps […]
It’s hard to imagine a better motto for any government, institution, or person than the one North Carolina has had since 1893: esse quam videri. From Cicero’s “On Friendship,” the phrase is translated from Latin as “to be rather than to seem.” How many elected officials in Raleigh and elsewhere live up to this standard […]
So President Obama and the Democrats are going to use the reconciliation route to pass health care ‘reform’ (sic)? Are there any odds in Las Vegas on this yet? If so, you might want to place some money down on it…it would be a humdinger of a Super Bowl contest of wills, patience and parliamentary […]
If discussing politics and religion should be avoided at all costs, then science must join the list. Much of today’s “settled science” or “scientific consensus” is actually religion in its purest sense. The scientific faithful are proselytizing, pronouncing woe to anyone who questions their doctrine. Too many scientists are High Priests in the First Assembled […]
