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One day, Bill Bennett may be best remembered for saying (in 1987, while he was President Reagan's education secretary) that government student aid was largely responsible for the fact that the cost of going to college kept rising. What is called the "Bennett Hypothesis" has been heavily debated
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I Took a STAND AGAINST CENSORSHIP. If government can censor one type of speech; it can censor any type of speech. (I'm talking about our state governments right now).
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 5:20 am
By: Diane Rufino
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With his apologist foreign policy in tatters, more Americans beheaded and slaughtered abroad, Amateur Obama will force his political hand in Washington, DC on Thursday night, November 20, 2014, by blaming the Republicans in the United States House as America's number one enemy.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 1:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tomorrow is Election Day. I am ashamed of you and others like you who are so disrespectful of our Nation and its leaders to be elected IN PRIVATE.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 1:43 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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WOW!!! I hope you made a personal copy for review at least 10 times! It is so full of more recent history. It is totally full of "history repeating itself."
Published: Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 @ 6:22 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Because I enjoy watching and analyzing legislative politics, it pains me to say this: for the 2014 election cycle in North Carolina, the most competitive and fateful races will be found at the top and bottom of the ballot — not in state house and senate contests, which probably aren't going...
Published: Thursday, March 27th, 2014 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Newspapers, activists and all who care about open government recently celebrated "Sunshine Week." Now it's time for North Carolina conservatives to make 2014 Sunshine Year.
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 8:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Over the past three years, the North Carolina legislature has enacted Ronald Reagan's favorite tax reform, Barry Goldwater's favorite regulatory reform, and Milton Friedman's favorite education reform. Yet some North Carolina conservatives of my acquaintance seem to think that the Republicans who...
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the precise moment I heard that longtime Republican strategist Jack Hawke had finally lost his battle with cancer, I was editing a book chapter about the 1984 race for North Carolina's governor. It was a pivotal campaign in the state's political history, as the Democratic Party fractured and...
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (M.E.B.A.) , AFL-CIO, is sad to announce that Jesse M. Calhoon, the M.E.B.A.'s longest serving and charismatic President who is widely credited with ushering the Union into the modern era, died on Tuesday October 22.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 @ 9:53 pm
By: Announcements
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You've never heard of Sarah Danaher or the company she founded, Ampersand Photography. What makes Sarah's story interesting is that she could easily have gone to college after finishing high school, but chose not to. She likes learning, but is passionate about photography and didn't want to...
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 4:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Self-governing individuals are necessary to have a self-governing society. That is, only a moral and disciplined people are capable of being governed by a limited government.
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Dr. Arthur Laffer, former economic advisor to President Reagan and commonly referred to as the father of supply-side economics sits down with Civitas to discuss how cuts in tax rates bring prosperity.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2013 @ 6:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Famed economist Arthur Laffer provided real-world economic solutions at the Civitas Institute's legislative training session recently in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 3:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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At the only statewide conservative conference in North Carolina, speakers, workshops, and special events will educate and empower conservatives on how we can restore our state to greatness.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 9:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Like the throngs looking for smoke at The Vatican, the Carolinas media waited breathlessly for North Carolina governor-elect Pat McCrory's address to The North Carolina Bankers' Association.
Published: Friday, January 4th, 2013 @ 4:54 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Now that the smoke has cleared -- and they are safe from the voters' wrath for at least two more years -- Republicans in Raleigh and Washington appear ready to toss supply-side, low-tax, deregulated economics under the bus.
Published: Saturday, November 24th, 2012 @ 10:34 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Brant Clifton wrote two short pieces on Friday, and I am writing one today. Does anyone really care?
Published: Sunday, November 11th, 2012 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday, March 26, the Supreme Court began oral arguments in the highly-anticipated case challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2012 @ 3:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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On August 4, a federal court in California struck down the gay marriage ban, popularly known as Proposition 8, and handed a victory to thousands of gays and lesbians.
Published: Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 @ 1:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Obama's first 365 days could be just like "the Gipper's." If one remembers well back in 1980, Ronald Wilson Reagan was none too popular as well.
Published: Monday, January 18th, 2010 @ 11:31 pm
By: Mike Hayes
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