CAROLINA JOURNAL – A monthly journal of news, analysis and opinion from the John Locke Foundation (A conservative think tank located in Raleigh) AUGUST 2011 RALEIGH North Carolina Approaches Abound About How to Ensure Adequate Water Supply Coercive government methods vie with free-market methods By Sara Burrows Associate Editor North Carolina does not have adequate water
AUGUST 16, 2011 Ruby Red Tape A case study in the costs of regulation, from Opal to Oregon. The abstraction known as “regulation” is often invoked as a reason businesses aren’t growing or hiring fast enough, and with good reason. Anyone wondering what that means in practice should consult the epic saga of the Ruby
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AUGUST 16, 2011 In a civilized society people would be allowed to defend themselves with guns, not baseball bats. By JOYCE LEE MALCOLM As wild gangs of youths burned homes, shops and cars and severely beat anyone who tried to stop them last week, English people tried to defend themselves. Their desperation triggered a 5,000%
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AUGUST 18, 2011 By RUSSELL GOLD Exxon Mobil Corp. is fighting with the U.S. government to keep control of one of its biggest oil discoveries ever, in a showdown where billions of dollars hang in the balance for both sides. The massive Gulf of Mexico discovery contains an estimated one billion barrels of recoverable oil,
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AUGUST 15, 2011 All the young rioters will have had long experience with the justice system’s efforts to confer impunity upon law breakers. By THEODORE DALRYMPLE The youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would
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August 12, 2011 The President’s Stale Sermons By Victor Davis Hanson Congress just approved the highest debt ceiling in American history, allowing the government to carry over $16 trillion in national debt – prompting the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade America’s multitrillion-dollar debt for the first time in 70 years. Unemployment is still
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August 12, 2011 By Michelle Malkin 8/12/2011 Everything that’s wrong with the so-called debt “super-committee” can be summed up in the person, partisan hackery and policy ignorance of Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid named Murray co-chair of the dog-and-pony deficit-reduction panel tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in spending
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WALL STREET JOURNAL August 11, 2011 Emerson Electric CEO David Farr during an earnings call, Aug. 2: GDP in the U.S. grew in the first half less than 1%. . . . It’s not new news. We have to deal with it. We have a tradition in the company to deal with those things. Then
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AUGUST 10, 2011 A New Strategy for Economic Growth Growth is not just about economics. Growth unleashes human potential. By KEVIN WARSH AND JEB BUSH As the economy continues to struggle, we are reminded of a course offered at Yale University titled “Grand Strategy.” Drawing on a weighty curriculum of history and philosophy, the course
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