Gov. Beverly Perdue has confirmed that her campaign committee is being investigated by the federal government over questions about campaign finance issue. Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson discusses what we know and what we don’t know, some of the players involved, and potential overlap between the Perdue and Mike Easley campaign finance investigations. Then we turn to the promised benefits from federal health care reform. Months after President Obama signed the health care legislation into law, those benefits are still unclear. State legislators had plenty of questions about the law during a recent presentation from Pam Silberman, president and CEO of the N.C. Institute of Medicine. You’ll hear highlights from that meeting. Then we move to American history. Even if you’re an avid student of American history, chances are good that you haven’t thought much about the 1924 presidential election. Raleigh finance executive Garland Tucker explained during a recent presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society why he decided to write a book about that election titled The High Tide of American Conservatism. That’s followed by a look at changes in the way universities teach English composition. The changes offer a good example of the recent decline of academic standards within higher education, according to arguments made in a recent presentation by N.C. State English Professor R.V. Young, editor of the journal Modern Age. And finally, John Locke Foundation Director of Fiscal and Health Policy Joe Coletti delves further into the costs and benefits of ObamaCare. Coletti analyzes reactions from major businesses that are trying to anticipate the costs and rules, as well as reaction from insurance companies that are seeking to determine what they will and won’t be required to offer their customers. Coletti also offers recommendations for market reforms of the health insurance industry.