A Wall Street Journal article describes a phenomenon that many health care consumers have painfully discovered. Hospital systems buy up medical practices and other health care facilities. Then, customers learn they must pay a “facility fee” they previously did not have to pay. That adds substantially to out-of-pocket charges. (HT: […]
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Two Illustrative Local Stories
There were two stories that appeared over the last couple of days that illustrate the depravity of our local institutions and particularly our local political culture. First, a Guilford County District Court Judge– Angela Foster– was suspended because her son was charged with a crime, and she reportedly attempted to […]
Spreading Greensboro Homicides To the County
The message was beyond parody. Mayor Nancy Vaughan asked during her State of the City address regarding the city’s high homicide rate, “Where is the outrage?”. She asked this after having spent many years undermining the police, playing identity group politics and hamstringing law enforcement. She and her fellow council […]
Why Are Republican Congressmen Dropping Like Flies?
On Friday, a Republican congressman– Mike Gallagher– announced he was resigning from Congress in a few weeks. Over the last several months, there has been a series of multiple GOP members who have resigned. That is highly unusual, because politicians tend to crave power and attention, and voluntarily resigning is […]
NC Electric Rates are Higher… Why?
An article in the News and Record piqued some interest. Electricity rates in North Carolina increased 8.5% a couple of months ago. They will go up two more times over the next two years. Why did these rates increase? We are told it is because of all the work performed […]
Murthy v. Missouri: Will Freedom of Speech Survive in America?
The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments on Monday in the major Covid-related case, Murthy v. Missouri. It will examine the various attempts by federal agencies and Joe Biden to shut down freedom of speech over the last several years. The stakes are very high. If the justices allow […]
NC Dept. Of Labor Rejects New Covid Workplace Rules
We had posted about this issue here previously. This is a victory, although it is almost unimaginable that this should have been an issue in the first place.
They Don’t Like The Fact That Robinson and Morrow Won Their Primaries
Both Mark Robinson and Michele Morrow won their respective primaries last week. Interestingly, there has been a flurry of articles expressing concern and/or alarm over the fact that they prevailed and might win the offices for which they are running. Such articles have been found at WRAL and the Charlotte […]
Baric at UNC Received “Prototype” Vaccine From Moderna Mid-December 2019
This is fairly interesting. The world did not know about Covid-19 around mid-December 2019. But Ralph Baric at UNC was already receiving the prototype for the vaccine from Moderna at that point, long before we learned about the pandemic. Fauci’s agency signed the documents in connection with this transfer. It […]
US Dept. Of Justice Exonerates Southern Baptists
There was a pretty interesting story at the Christian Post a couple of days ago. Readers will recall the extraordinary measures taken by the Southern Baptist Convention in response to allegations of sexual abuse. Part of this– but not all– was motivated by a decision at Joe Biden’s US Department […]