Loving those falling gas prices? Thank FRACKING.
It’s created a huge economic boom in the Dakotas. Environmentalists want you to believe it will poison your children and kill your ability to have children. In any case, fracking
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Expanding Medicaid a Job Creator? (Yeah, just like setting house fires and robbing ABC stores.)
We’ve got one of the most generous Medicaid programs in the country. Some health care professional acquaintances of mine tell me that providers in surrounding states are sending medicaid patients
Continue readingRepeat after me: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money … (C’mon! Everybody!)
The drumbeat continues. Local governments and their lobbyists are gung-ho on the idea of digging deeper into our already ravaged wallets. They’ve been spinning us for days now about how
Continue readingWhy cut spending when you can just holler for Mo’ Money?
We thought we saw the shape of things to come in that Revenue Laws Committee meeting on Jones Street earlier this week. The meeting featured a presentation from the UNC
Continue readingThe $1T lame-duck sellout
[Methinks this graphic will be getting a lot of work during the upcoming congressional session.] Voters just gave Republicans one hell of a mandate: Stop Obama. Stop ObamaCare. Stop Amnesty.
Continue readingWalter Jones: Boehner & co. “screwing over the American people” with spending bill
He’s added his name to a letter seeking a short-term government funding bill that defunds any agency that would facilitate amnesty. Now, congressman Walter Jones is criticizing his caucus’s leadership
Continue readinggovt shutdown or amnesty: which one “costs” more?
The DC GOP establishment, and their media puppets on Fox News, are quaking over the idea of a government “shutdown.” Give the Democrats what they want. Don’t make Barry mad,
Continue readingBoehner’s boys (and girls) kow-tow to Green crowd, crony capitalists with “all-of-the-above”
“All-of-the-above” is a nice, safe term. You don’t offend anyone. You’re taking everyone’s options. It’s perfect for politicians wanting to keep everyone happy. But the ”all-of-the-above” energy strategy being touted
Continue readingFood Policy: Gov’t ratcheting up effort to control what goes in your mouth, on your plate
Michelle Obama has been working overtime from DC to make school lunches even more unbearable. She’s apparently inspired statists from sea to shining sea to increase their meddling in the arena of
Continue readingWe’re #16 !!! (Um, YAY ?)
The right-leaning Tax Foundation has released its national rankings of the various states’ economic climate. According to the group, North Carolina has moved from an overall ranking of 44th out
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