Sunday, February 27, 2005

Thin Ice?

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Rob Christensen has an essay in today's N&O in which he characterizes "insurgent Democrats" in N.C. as "mad as hell,...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Run as a Democrat, Tax Like a Republican

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According to the N&O , the Guv's proposal to tax candy, movie tickets, newspapers (all our major vices), etc. is the first step in a...

Gene Wilson Wants to Make Mischief with Boone City Elections

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If you can't beat 'em, rope in some no-zoners to vote 'em out. Introduced into the N.C. House last Wednesday is a bill co-sponso...
Friday, February 25, 2005

What's the Matter with Kansas?

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It's like we went to sleep one night and woke up to a police state in Kansas, a foretaste of things to come (see the last post down-colu...
Thursday, February 24, 2005

Liberty Under the Mullahs

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The attorney general of Kansas has gotten a court order to go snooping into the personal lives of some 90 women who received late-term abor...

Balancing N.C.'s Budget on the Backs of the Poor

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As promised, the Guv delivered his budget proposal to the legislature yesterday . He proposes reducing taxes on the state's richest whi...

'Nuff Said?

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From this a.m. 's NYTimes: "Concluding a yearlong study on the effectiveness of President Bush's sweeping education law, No Chi...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

A New Tax We Can All Get Behind

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A state senator in Montana has introduced a bill that would impose a gross proceeds tax on "big box stores" like Wal-Mart. The ta...

Election Poker

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The all Republican N.C. Supreme Court throws out over 11,000 provisional ballots in the November election. The Democrats in the N.C. State S...