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Superman meets ‘grift-industrial complex’
Giancarlo Sopo writes for National Review Online about over-the-top reaction to a major new superhero movie. Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane . . . no,…
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More like a typical journalist than he knows
The latest edition of “The Awesome Column” in TIME features Joel Stein‘s humorous commentary about an effort to reduce the federal budget for portrait painting. Even more interesting to this…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
A crutch that turns Tiny Tim into Superman?
That is how the film industry treats North Carolina’s film tax credit, as my newsletter discusses. With the tax credit, the state’s film industry is an economic dynamo, but it’s…
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Public cash for the film industry: the crutch that supposedly turns Tiny Tim into Superman
View in your browser. The legislature has adjourned, but it’s not too soon for film production companies to start making noise about the possible expiration of the tax credits for…
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Danny Thompson’s Superman cape
While the Rhino keeps a close eye Greensboro City Council member Danny Thompson’s questionable campaign financing, the N&R collects quotes* from fellow council members Zack Matheny, Jim Kee and Robbie…
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Update from the ignore-all-the-facts-and-just-call-it-resegregation movement
Terry Stoops chronicles the sudden reversal of News & Observer columnist Barry Saunders, who folded faster than Superman on laundry day after staking out an actually thoughtful position on diversity.…
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Re: Hood’s JLF Organizational Evaluation
This is scary that I’m the same Superhero as Chad…. Your results:You are The Flash The Flash 95% Spider-Man 90% Superman 80% Hulk 75% Robin 70% Green Lantern 70%…
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Hood’s Superhero Test
Ok, last blog before Costa Rica, somewhat worthless, but maybe a giggle for someone. Your results: You are The Flash The Flash 80% Green Lantern 60% Hulk 60% Spider-Man…
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Headlines bear out John Hood’s observation of superheroes
Recall Hood’s thesis that “Batman is a conservative, Superman a liberal.” Property rights are an issue of disagreement between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives believe in property rights and doing things…
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The Atom Man breathes his last
The actor Mason Adams, of ?with a name like Smuckers, it has to be good? fame, has died. The breadth of his remarkable, if largely unheralded, career is evident in…
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“Superman just went down…”
The first Medal of Honor of the Iraq War (and only the third since Vietnam) was awarded posthumously today to Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith. Here’s the story.…
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Ayn Rand and stretchy red super-suits
The Hood boys saw The Incredibles last night. Incredibly great entertainment, as Jeff and Paul previously observed. Later last night, I was catching up on my Christian Science Monitors and…