The Washington Post recently had a great article on the history of failure of government intrusion in the free market. The numbers are pretty damning: http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/energy/subsidies#11

The New York Times had a piece today about how the Occupy Wall Street movement was handling the homeless which was both unsurprising and sad. The first part of the article focused on how homeless people who are mentally unbalanced cause conflict in the movement, but the second part zeroes in…

We will have more coverage of the OccupyUNC movement (where privileged Carolina students come together and complain!) later, but a fun fact: The Facebook event for the group (http://t.co/af7UhKeQ) actually banned several people from the event altogether (including yours truly). We may or may not have been satirizing the whole…

The DTH’s front page special about our First Amendment rights included the image of Billy Kluttz, former President of GLBTSA with a sign “first-year.” His quote: “The freedom of speech is always limited by societal harm. I guess we’re going to keep fighting over where that line is, and non-sexist…

Terri Phoenix, Director of UNC’s LGBTQ Center, wrote a letter today listing the consequences for LGBTQI-“Two-Spirit” individuals if the constitutional amendment passes next spring. Legally, state agencies are allowed to participate in elections so long as it’s limited to educating voters- like Orange County “educating” voters that, if taxes aren’t…

The DTH has an interesting concept of balance when they publish one rabidly pro-Palestinian column and one very measured, overly even-handed column side-by-side…