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This is old blog posting (March 21, 2013). I have almost 1,000 of them in my “Next Book” folder waiting for more of you to buy my first book. I am determined to not “reward” you with a second book until you have shown you fully appreciate the Fine-Crafted Foolishness in the first book.
Published: Monday, May 8th, 2017 @ 1:29 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In the 2016 general election, electronic errors, glitches and untrained staff caused major problems that received bipartisan scorn.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 @ 8:30 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The University of Pennsylvania has promised $100 million to increase faculty diversity. Yale has just pledged $50 million, Johns Hopkins $25 million. These sums are large, but the goal has been an object of urgent attention for decades
Published: Monday, February 29th, 2016 @ 3:58 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As Attorney General Roy Cooper sets his sights on the governor's mansion, he should explain why he supports Charlotte's controversial transgender bathroom ordinance, even though it is likely to be the subject of a lengthy and expensive legal challenge if passed. Roy Cooper has been raising...
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 8:27 am
By: Chris Downey
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This phenomenon has been spreading across the country - from campus to campus - whipping up a liberal frenzy just in time for election season. The developments have me drawing comparisons to George Orwell's classic "Animal Farm''.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013, along with the massacre of nine black churchgoers last summer in Charleston, South Carolina, created racial hysteria and gave rise to an anti-intellectual movement that has now extended to American campuses
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:18 am
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina is a top 10 state for job creation in 2015, according to analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by Professor Lee McPheters at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:32 am
By: Chris Downey
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I usually try not to call attention to a lot of the stupidity that oozes through the drive-by media. (There's so frickin' much of it.)
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Kudos to Senate leader Phil Berger for his incisive answer as to whether he would support an independent redistricting commission. According to Gary Robertson of the Associated Press, Berger said...
Published: Monday, February 9th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As a fan of the free market, I find myself a little torn on the issue of net neutrality The government wants to step in on the Internet service provider industry to ensure "equal treatment" for everyone and everything on the Internet.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 11:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In this newsletter and in two separate reports I have offered an important emerging consensus in the public debate about hydraulic fracturing:
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 8:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court took a step toward weakening racial preferences in university admissions. Ed Blum is trying to end them for good, potentially starting with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Published: Friday, May 16th, 2014 @ 2:07 am
By: John William Pope Center
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In 2009, the folks at Wikileaks posted a bunch of hacked emails from The Climate Research Unit at The University of East Anglia - at the time, the world leader in global warming research.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When the New York Times finds a case of what economists call market failure, you can expect that its reporters will investigate it to the core. But when it stumbles across a clear case of government failure, expect at best a superficial and myopic investigation.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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We hope that Santa came to your house this year and gave you what you wanted. We at the Pope Center are still hoping for our wish list to be fulfilled--but we have high hopes for the New Year.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 2:14 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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While unfunded liabilities continue to garner plenty of attention in the press, I fear a lack of understanding means this attention is failing to translate into legislative action.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you check out Forbes Magazine's List of the Best Places for Business and Careers, you will find a slideshow of silver skyscrapers hailing the prosperity of Raleigh and other North Carolina metro areas - but failing to show economic reality elsewhere in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 11:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The John Locke Foundation has long advocated privatization, outsourcing and competition as useful tools for building effective public policies.
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 @ 4:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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