legal term describing "common well-being" or "general welfare"
Who are the top “stakeholders” when it comes to getting electricity in North Carolina? This isn’t a trick question, no matter how baffling it may seem to the Cooper administration.…
Having issued its findings and justified its purpose, the Right to Earn a Living Act moves on to its next section. The definitions section makes very clear what it would…
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online that N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper’s refusal to defend the state in a lawsuit targeting House Bill 2 is part of a national…
Jay Cost documents in a Washington Free Beacon column serious concerns about modern interest-group politics. Is this proliferation of interest groups buttressed by sophisticated lobbying operations a good thing? Some…
You can always spot the person who is afraid to compete. They spend their time trying to eliminate the competition rather than improving their product or skills. Here’s a recent…
I spied today a fundraising email for an incumbent. It requested contributions to his campaign so he may have continued success funding public interests while holding the line on taxes.
William Voegeli’s argument that there’s “never enough” government to satisfy big-government advocates makes more sense after one reads a recent edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis. Political scientist John Marini discusses…
My Local Government newsletter this week documented how Raleigh’s planners fall short of American Planning Association (APA) code of ethics. I also wondered how the APA might respond to an…
The John Locke Foundation earns praise in a new report from the Federal Communications Commission. As reported at FutureOfCapitalism.com, the FCC report quotes John Hood. (One inspiring model is the…
George Soros wants to rein in the leftist genie of expansive regulation. Look, I’m not advocating extensive regulations because regulations are also imperfect, not only markets. But regulators are even…
Paul Jacob has an excellent column on the tactic that the despots who are in power are resorting to now that widespread opposition has emerged to their plan for a…