From today's Rasmussen Reports: Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan. Consumer-driven he[...]

In North Carolina native Richard Weaver's "How to Argue the Conservative Cause," a speech delivered in 1959, I read some interesting passages. 1) ". . . I once defined a liberal as a person who is not communist but who cannot give any good reason for not... [...]

Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson will meet with ICE officials regarding the use of tasers at the county's dentention center. Sheriff's spokesman Randy Jones says the use of tasers is "non-negotiable" but assumes some sort of agreement will be reached at the Aug. 28 meeting. [...]

by Mark Steyn - August 11th, 2009 - National Review What's the end-game here? I suppose it's conceivable that there are a few remaining suckers out there who still believe Barack Obama is the great post-partisan, fiscally responsible, pragmatic centrist he played so beguilingly just a year [...]

Maybe, just maybe we'll then join Asheville and Raleigh on USA Today's list of favorite business traveler destinations. Rawlee gets bonus points for being easy to get around in thanks to all that road money the General Assembly keeps in town. And Asheville is just Asheville funky, wonky, [...]

According to an article in Science Daily, it turns out that the federal government's food stamp program has the unintended consequence of increasing obesity."Every way we looked at the data, it was clear that the use of food stamps was associated with weight gain," Zagorsky... [...]

The headline of this New York Times article speaks for itself: "Obama Sets Immigration Changes for 2010." There are no good intentions that can be accomplished with evil means, and this evil move deliberately disenfranchises legal American citizens; it's no coincidence.... [...]

...when encountering people with views you oppose, your first thought isn't "how can I refute their arguments" but "where do they get their funding?" For an explanation of this position see my previous post. [...]

That the title of this excellent piece by William McGurn in today's Wall Street Journal. He points out that whereas Obama said while campaigning that he would be open to ideas on this issue, now that his plan is up in Congress, that professed openness has turned out to be another false promise.[...]

Getting into a weird area here. But there are now indications that the official timeline of Barack Obama's newborn days is all messed up. It is certainly possible that Obama's mother traveled from Hawaii to Seattle, Washington to attend college two weeks after his birth. And it is possible [...]

New Video Exposing Obama-Style Healthcare This new health reform video produced by Colorado's Independence Institute (disclosure: my employer) is a great example of combining original research with short, viewer-friendly animation to convey a clear message about the dangers of great[...]

Read about one American's experience in dealing with the propagandists at the Democratic National Committee here. We might sum up this whole dispute like this: "We think your legislation has bad ideas." "Oh yeah? Well you're a bunch of bad... [...]

So much for Rupert Murdoch being invincible. FOX Business is on its way to the dustbin as the network looks to simulcast the Don Imus radio show. As Henry Blodget points out, 6-9am is primetime for market news. If FOX Business is kissing that off, it is really saying there is no market for its ...[...]

In case you doubted Hillary Clinton's ability to handle minor misunderstandings in a calm, collected way. [...]

One angry Brunswick County resident came up with a colorful allusion when protesting a plan from the town of St. James to annex his property. Part of the controversy stems from the fact that St. James Plantation, from which the town sprung, is a gated community. From the StarNews coverage: Angela B[...]

Consumer-driven healthcare experts from across the state will gather in Winston-Salem tomorrow Wednesday Aug. 19* to clue small business owners in on healthcare reform. 11:30 a.m., Benton Convention Center. *Oops. Getting ahead of myself. Happy August isn't half over, however. [...]

Locke Foundation friend Humberto Fontova writes here about the allegedly fine health care system in Cuba, with its low infant mortality rate. Fontova shows how utterly bogus that statistic is and tears apart some true health care "disinformation" (Michael Moore's idiotic film Sicko) w[...]

WWAY continued its diligence yesterday with a follow-up report on R.C. Soles documenting that his large monetary gifts to alleged arson victim Alan Strickland are hardly unique. The longtime state senator has had similarly odd relationships with other boys and young men: Since he went to prison, it[...]

Here's an illuminating article by a Canadian woman who writes about the misery of trying to get treatment in her country. The Obamacrats soothingly say that we'll never suffer anything like that, but words are cheap. It is inevitable that a politicized health care system will deliver poor [...]

The authors of this article in Independent Review argue that it isn't that we don't have enough government involvement, but that we already have way too much. Of course, you'd never find the likes of David Price and Brad Miller soiling their hands with such... [...]

See more goodies at Moonbattery . Hat Tip: @longhawl I'm making stickers out of this one and pasting them everywhere!!! [...]

There is still time to grab a seat at the John Locke Foundation Health Care Policy Luncheon Briefing on Thursday at the SouthPark Marriott. The topic, What Small Business Owners Need to Know About Health Care Reform: Why Consumer-Driven Health Care is the Only Way to Reform the U.S. Health Care Sys[...]

Panthers WR Steve Smith will evidently miss a couple weeks with a badly bruised shoulder, which to me sounds like he doesn't see contact until the regular season starts. That'll play havoc with getting Jake Delhomme into a comfort zone ahead of the season, but the Panthers simply cannot aff[...]

Just days after Gov. Bev Perdue puts her signature on a Democrat-written state budget that dumps $1 billion in tax hikes onto the backs of North Carolinians during a recession and record unemployment, legislators come back for even more. This time it's part of the misguided move to fund their d[...]

We talk about the potential of Southwest Airlines coming to Charlotte a lot because it's the best hope of cutting the average air fare out of CLT by 8 percent to 10 percent. The odds of that happening in the foreseeable future just got a lot longer with Southwest's bid to buy Frontier Airl[...]

If that's the case, then Guilford County Sheriff B.J. Barnes might back out of 287 (g): "What it comes down to is, they don't want you to use a Taser," Barnes said. "That may be a deal-breaker. I'm not going to say one way or another." .Barnes said it would be hard t[...]

Catawba County Town Hall Meeting Tuesday, August 11th at 6:00 p.m. Hickory City Hall City Council Chambers 76 North Center Street Hickory, NC 28601 Lincoln County Town Hall Meeting Wednesday, August 12th at 6:00 p.m. James Warren Lincoln County Citizens Center Commissioners' Chambers 115 West M[...]

An excerpt of an insightful article: Frankly, Americans resent authority. We accept some measure of it as a necessary evil most times, but there are limits. We can be pushed, often quite far, but when we reach a certain tipping point, enmity quickly flares. We can hav[...]

Historically, debates have been an opportunity for candidates for Asheville City Council or the Board of Buncombe County Commissioners to be asked questions like: What's your stance on the Kyoto Protocol? Are you pro-choice or pro-life? What will you do to improve education in our schools? A[...]

Maybe you will want to hear what the policy analysts from the John Locke Foundation have concluded about the impact of replacing what personal choice remains for the sick and afflicted with with broad-brush political strategies. People who have spent a lot of time studying healthcare reform will be[...]

For some time, conservatives have been compiling lists of healthcare reforms that should be implemented before nationalizing the medical industry. Today, in a spammer signing folks up to educate their Congressmen about Fannie Med, Community Organizer Mitch Stewart, from the Obama camp, gave three g[...]

If Carolinas Cement Company people have their way children here will have "more asthma, more hospitalization and more illness," according to a recent letter to the Wilmington Star-News by medical doctor David L. Hill. That's a very broad and highly questionable statement. It's a[...]

It would be a full-time job trying to discover how many millions of taxpayer dollars have gone down a rat hole in Durham over the past 30 years. Durham officials have a bad habit of ignoring economic realities when approached by hands-out citizens claiming they want to "promote small-business [...]

There's nothing worse than when the local paper of record doesn't understand a local policy issue and blindly accepts the government's and the chamber's spin on things. Today's example is the absurd softball of an article on Charlotte/Douglas International Airport's plans fo[...]

Here's a reason to tune in to CNN Tuesday morning. From the News&Observer: North Carolina's Woodhouse brothers will square off, again, on CNN Tuesday morning. Brad, who is communications director for the Democratic National Committee in Washington, and Dallas, who heads the North Carol[...]

Last Wednesday, I wrote about the strategic mistake made by the Democratic Party when they ill-labeled constituents, "the mob." Along with thousands of Tweets each day planting the #iamthemob flag , we're starting to see videos of "the mob" bubbling up to the surface. [...]

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Sen. Kay Hagan says any healthcare reform bill must be 'revenue neutral.' Good luck with that. Besides, as Ran Coble of the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research said when discussing possible state tax reform -"revenue neutral means different things to people in different political p[...]

At its Tuesday night meeting, the Guilford County Board of Education will deal with the issue of athletic eligiblility in the wake of the Northeast Northern Guilford High School scandal. The N&R reported that the board will consider a policy requiring students who trnasfer to another school to sit [...]

ClaimMyName: Self-Help Against Name-Squatting on Social Media Services The proliferation of Web 2.0 social media services has magnified the old problem of cyber-squatting: Every new service represents the possibility that someone else might claim your name, or your organization's tr[...]

The John Locke Foundation has put together its first-ever issue checklist for municipal elections. The 37 questions are intended to help candidates and voters focus on the difference-making issues rather emphera, star-power, and cash money. It will be interesting to see who steps up to stake out po[...]