We're in Iraq. We flew all night and arrived very safely.
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2018 @ 12:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Reportedly, Americans are more interested in socialism now. How much that is actually true, I don't know. Media political reporting today contains so much projection, it's hard to tell
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2018 @ 3:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Martin Denning, a former educator and Democratic candidate, says unlike six-term Republican incumbent Rep. William Brisson — his opponent for the N.C House District 22 seat — he won’t switch parties
Published: Thursday, November 1st, 2018 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Listen to this state's only two-term Republican governor, and you'll hear that GOP legislators are "trying to put unconstitutional things in the state constitution to make them not unconstitutional anymore."
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 11:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday night's show, Tucker Carlson of Fox News launched into a diatribe over the supposed injustices of Amazon's pay practices
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 9:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On this Sunday, I woke to the delightful sound of a steady, gently falling rain. I had slept soundly, after a busy Saturday.
Published: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 @ 1:06 am
By: Michele Rhem
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On Friday, Slate published a beautifully-written essay by Jamelle Bouie about the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, which pays tribute to those who were lynched by white mobs between the Civil War and the civil rights movement.
Published: Sunday, May 6th, 2018 @ 11:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina House education budget is scratch made, taking few cues from the Senate's plan, Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, told Carolina Journal on Thursday
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 @ 12:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House education budget is scratch made, taking few cues from the Senate's plan, Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, told Carolina Journal on Thursday
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2017 @ 9:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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University of North Carolina system officials apparently need a refresher course on the First Amendment
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 @ 5:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A tight race for a high-profile elected position, such as governor, can amplify even small election problems. Such has been the case in North Carolina, which saw Democratic challenger Roy Cooper declare victory following a thin, 5,000-vote lead election night
Published: Friday, December 2nd, 2016 @ 12:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a week of hearing nothing asked nor answered, the North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today questioned whether Roy Cooper and Deborah Ross support Hillary Clinton's "extremely careless" handling of classified material while serving as Secretary of State
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2016 @ 1:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new study from the Mercatus Center highlighted improvements in North Carolina's fiscal performance from fiscal 2013 to 2014.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 @ 9:57 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A few years ago, I went back to school. I was in my 60s and nearing retirement as president of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 @ 6:20 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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He was the most decorated soldier of World War II and a movie star, but many do not know the rest of his story.
Published: Sunday, February 7th, 2016 @ 9:06 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I doubt if there will ever be a robot that can calculate the value of a human life.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 @ 3:31 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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How can we differentiate the pay of teachers on the basis of their performance while also treating them fairly? This familiar education-policy debate used to play out at the Hood family dinner table.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama pitched his plan for making two years of community college as "free and universal in America as high school is today." He thinks it would be a great thing. But at the community college where I taught English from 2007 to 2010, Georgia Perimeter...
Published: Sunday, February 22nd, 2015 @ 2:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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By now, most of us have come to expect the left-wing bias of the Raleigh News & Observer.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 11:17 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It tells a gripping story. The 131-page report by Kenneth L. Wainstein and his colleagues peels back 18 years of scandalous secrecy at UNC-Chapel Hill to reveal that between 1993 and 2011, more than 3,100 students took "paper classes."
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 12:12 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Sometimes, we find ourselves debating whether Barry Obama is simply incompetent or willfully driving our economy into the toilet.
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 10:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Almost as much awaited as the yearly U.S. News & World Report college rankings is the annual Princeton Review ranking of the top "party schools." By Princeton Review's analysis, the top party school this year is (drumroll)...the University of Iowa. Congratulations, Hawkeyes. You beat out the Univers
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 2:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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It's certainly reasonable for people to use the unemployment rate and the number of jobs created to evaluate the performance of an economy.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 1:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It happens at the end of every semester. As final grades are computed and entered, faculty all across the United States hear those inner demons talking. Some expound quite loudly; others merely whisper.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 11:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The left does a great job of spinning their agenda as one of freedom. The freedom to love whoever you want to love.
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2013 @ 10:03 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Almost unheard of before 1966, mass shootings like the Newtown massacre have become more and more frequent in modern American life.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 6:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Sheriff Jordan is still whining and barking about Commissioner Hood Richardson. Jordan is a slow learner.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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While North Carolina's mainstream media was on its extended Labor Day vacation, The Heartland Institute decided to pick up the slack and do a little reporting about what's happening within our fair state's public education system
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 11:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Out of left field comes the Administration announcement that implementation of one of the more contentious requirements of Obamacare will be delayed for a year (i.e. until 2015).
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 9:19 am
By: Jim Bispo
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A storm is brewing over "The Boundaries of Science," a course taught at Ball State University by physics and astronomy professor Eric Hedin. The course's professed intention is to present a balanced and fair consideration of the relationship and tension between religion and science.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2013 @ 5:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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