What a shame. Anarchists are making their mark in Carrboro — literally and figuratively. First anarchists teamed up with local squatter malcontents to take over private property. Now anarchists are defacing the Carrboro community, and their handiwork costs thousands to clean up. So exactly when will Orange County officials acknowledge that anarchists don’t want to improve the community and shouldn’t be appeased? At least one official — Carrboro’s police chief — understands what’s going on.
Read full article » No Comments »Police Chief Carolyn Hutchison is convinced the problem is getting worse.
“It’s on buildings. It’s on signs. It’s on bike paths. It’s on private property. It’s on public property,” she said. “It’s everywhere.”
Hutchison blames anarchists for much of the graffiti increase.
”Anarchists have claimed the area and are marking their territory,” she told town officials in an email this month. Their symbols – a capital letter A, sometimes inside a circle; a skull with an A on the forehead – show up frequently.
From the Washington Examiner comes word of the new CBO report on Obamcare’s cost — nearly twice what the president and his supporters said it would be. In other words, the critics of how the president and his supporters calculated cost were correct.
Read full article » No Comments »President Obama’s national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.
Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation of the law until 2014, so it would appear cheaper under the CBO’s standard ten-year budget window and, at least on paper, meet Obama’s pledge that the legislation would cost “around $900 billion over 10 years.” When the final CBO score came out before passage, critics noted that the true 10 year cost would be far higher than advertised once projections accounted for full implementation.
