Opinion
It’s past time for NC to can CON laws
If you are tired of the same thing being done over and over again and expecting different results, reach out to your representatives at the General Assembly and let your voice be heard!
Opinion
I drove to SC for an MRI to avoid higher prices from NC’s CON laws
Rather than the $5,000+ pricetag I was seeing in NC, I found a shoulder MRI at a lovely, independent orthopedic practice in Fort Mill, SC, for $330 cash.
Opinion
Misunderstanding greatness
Elon and his DOGE team are digging deep into computer databases, reviewing payment processes, and finding billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse. How could doing so possibly be a bad thing?
Opinion
The absurdities of ideological driven science
In the 21st century, woke progressivism has inundated itself in mass culture, academic institutions, and left-wing political policy. However, in its most recent expansion it has perniciously invaded scientific institutions in an attempt to totalize a political agenda. In seeking to have a totalizing narrative, woke progressivism attempts to leave no stone unturned. The insatiable...
Opinion
The beauty of American diversity
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” – The New Colossus, engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty Immigrant. What do you think of when you...
Opinion
Six Trends to Shape 2016
When trying to concoct statistical models to forecast the outcomes of presidential elections, political scientists run dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of simulations.
Opinion
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Hide The Evidence
After burying a scathing study of the Head Start early childhood education program's ineffectiveness, the Obama administration plans to push for more early childhood education.
Opinion
Isaacson Reveals the Many Layers of Steve Jobs
Though Jobs authorized the biography — handpicking Isaacson to write it — he exercised no control over it and did not ask to review it. He encouraged people from his past to speak with Isaacson and encouraged them to be forthcoming. To say that Jobs was a complicated human being is an understatement. Most great men are very complicated, and good biographers can peel back the many layers. Isaacson succeeds in showing us that practically nothing and nobody is the way it seems. That’s a lesson the Occupy Wall Street crowd could stand to learn.
News
Friday Interview: Keynesian Overconsumption Comes Home to Roost
RALEIGH — Ever since the recent financial crisis took hold, we’ve heard the name Keynes and the word “Keynesian” crop up in political and economic debates. John Maynard Keynes was a 20th-century British economist. One of his most famous sayings was “in the long run, we are all dead.” Paul Cwik, associate professor of economics at Mount Olive College, used Keynes’ line as the basis for a presentation this year to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. Cwik spoke on the theme “Say’s Revenge: Living in Keynes’ Long Run.” Cwik discussed Keynes, Say, and competing economic ideas with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
The prospect of a performance review is a white-knuckle event for most of us. After all, our standard of living for the year ahead hinges on a job well done. Though fraught with tension, a performance-based compensation system makes good sense and creates all kinds of incentives to achieve. Such logic is lost on the education establishment, however.
Opinion
Dali Melted It, Einstein Relativized It, and Capital Saved It
Of all of the commodities and services available to consumers in the market, one of the most precious is never bought or sold explicitly. That good is "more time for ourselves." Yet time is the one thing that most of us want more of, whether it's for leisure or some other purpose.
Opinion
Black Holes & the Locke Foundation
Have you heard the one about Stephen Hawking, black holes, and the John Locke Foundation? Actually it’s not a joke — there is a link, and it has to do with the search for truth.
