Carolina Journal Print Columnists
Articles by John Hood

(8.24.07) NC's Low Rank on Health Policy
If it’s a good idea for voters to “own” elections, as advocates of taxpayer-funded campaigns put it, why isn’t it also a worthy goal for consumers to own their own health-care policies?

(8.23.07) Spend Too Much, Teach Too Little
Despite America’s overall devotion to free enterprise and individual choice, we have one of the most privileged government education monopolies in the developed world.

(8.22.07) Those Voter-Disowned Elections
What happens when judicial candidates lack sufficient resources to communicate with millions of North Carolina voters?

(8.21.07) When Washington Started A War
It was the war that made America, and George Washington was involved right from the beginning. But don’t think Paul Revere and crossing the Delaware.

(8.20.07) A Low Rank In Health Ownership
If it’s a good idea for voters to “own” elections, why isn’t it also a worthy goal for consumers to own their own health-care policies?

(8.17.07) The Big-Money Lawsuit That Failed
Activists filed their suits to achieve a big payday for the education establishment at the expense of taxpayers. In a few cases, they got it. In North Carolina, they didn’t.

(8.16.07) A Passion Gap, At Least For Now
If the election were to be held next week, it seems likely that passionate Democratic voters would outnumber their dispirited Republican counterparts at the polls.

(8.15.07) The Big-Money Lawsuit That Failed
The public-school establishment tucked itself to bed each night as if it were Christmas Eve, with visions of court-ordered fiscal plums dancing in its head.

(8.14.07) Fallacies Prompt Bad Public Policies
People often assert that because good things happen after government passed a law or regulation, the consequent is due to government’s action.

(8.13.07) Flashback: The Heroic Jim Jeffords
A look back at one of the strangest events in North Carolina political history — and how, in retrospect, Sen. Jim Jeffords was a paragon of virtue.

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