Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

“Prom Queen!”   “Calm down, now, John.”   “I enjoyed our friendship – while it lasted.”   It sounds like two middle-schoolers having a bad breakup. But no. It was the Wake County school board majority falling out of love.   And they did it with such grace and style. So mature and professional. Such…

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How Government Really Works: A Train Wreck

A few years ago Secretary Lanier Cansler’s Department decided to ‘reform’ care for the mentally ill and when they finished the state’s mental hospitals were in a shambles and schizophrenics were being handcuffed to beds in Emergency Rooms in local hospitals because the state had nowhere to care for them.   Next Cansler’s Department decided…

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Perdue Pushback on PPP Poll

Pearse Edwards in Governor Perdue’s office has pushed back hard against Public Policy Polling’s conclusion that she is a “liability” to Democrats this year because of her “failure to communicate with average voters”   In comments posted on PPP’s blog, Edwards called that analysis “not only unfair but wrong.” He added:   “Gov. Perdue’s net…

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The Deficit Solution

There is a simple and easy solution to our nation’s budget deficit. It’s bound to work, because it relies on the tremendous energy and enthusiasm that the Tea Party movement has brought to politics.   Here it is: All members of the Tea Party must give up any claim to government benefits, beginning with Medicare…

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How Government Works

A couple of months ago an 80 year old man on Medicaid received a letter from Secretary of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler’s department telling him his in-home medical care had been cut.  He appealed the ruling, proved he needed the care, and won.   But he still didn’t get it.  What happened?  …

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The Politics of Principle

Michael Barone of Fox News made an astute point about Obama at this week’s John Locke luncheon. He said Obama is a very different president from Bill Clinton: Clinton was “unencumbered by principle,” while Obama is an “ideologue.”   Now, “ideologue” is a loaded word. You could also say “principled.”   You could apply the…

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