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President Barack Obama's Homeland Security Department provided unvetted Somali Muslims tours of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport including its so-called restricted area
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2016 @ 3:46 pm
By: Jim Kouri
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Almost 5,000 students will receive degrees during East Carolina University's 2016 Spring Commencement ceremony. The event will be held Friday, May 6 in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and will begin at 9 a.m. with the processional.
Published: Monday, May 23rd, 2016 @ 3:08 am
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina in recent months has accepted 44 Syrian refugees, and as many as 270 other Syrians are expected to be relocated throughout the state, according to Gov. Pat McCrory's office
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of you who don't know -- NC Spin is a little show broadcast each week, aired in the wee hours of the morning on obscure stations, and hosted by Tom
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina has accepted 59 Syrian refugees, and as many as 270 others are expected to be relocated throughout the state, according to Gov. Pat McCrory's office. The governor's office updated the information Monday, three days after it responded to an open-records request from Carolina Journal...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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DC-Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is calling for Congress to block funds for the Obama administration's massive Middle Eastern refugee resettlement program when Congress appropriates money for the Boehner-Obama debt deal before the end of the year...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 3:49 am
By: Chris Downey
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THAT is the spin being circulated by the establishment in the wake of John Boehner's resignation from Congress.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 10:51 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Last month, six student government members at the University of California at Irvine voted to ban the American flag in some parts of campus. And although the ban was overturned, thousands of professors and students across California signed a letter supporting the flags removal.
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2015 @ 9:07 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Results from the 2014 U.S. History, Geography, and Civics at Grade 8 tests were released this week.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 2:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the U.S. Department of Education, administers U.S. history, geography, and civics assessments once every four years. In 2014, a representative sample of over 29,000 eighth-grade students from across the nation took one of the...
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This year has been an eventful one for higher education in general and for North Carolina specifically. As Santa checks his list, the Pope Center has a few suggestions as to who's been naughty and nice this year.
Published: Saturday, December 27th, 2014 @ 6:14 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Fidel Castro freed Cuba from the greedy clutches of U.S. robber barons and mobsters and rewarded his downtrodden countrymen with free health care and education.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 5:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's graduation season—the time of year when young people are publicly recognized for their academic achievements. It's also the time of year when colleges and universities invite public figures to speak at commencement ceremonies, sometimes with controversial results.
Published: Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 @ 2:08 am
By: John William Pope Center
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There is a growing trend on American college campuses, a trend that augurs badly for free speech and robust debate. I refer to the way various groups of people use expressions of hurt feelings to trump speakers they disagree with. The most recent manifestation of this was at Brandeis University.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 3:30 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I watched most of the State of the Union Address; some of you watched all of it, most of you watched none of it, which, in this case, is most understandable.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you thought this year's US Senate race was going to be fun, wait til you see how our local congressional race may be shaping up.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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America's greatness is in danger, not because as a nation we are economically bankrupt. Not because China owns us and could cash in their vast holdings of U.S.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2013 @ 11:02 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When Lindsay Gardiner Takkunen first heard about the terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Kenya, the news hit close to home.
Published: Monday, October 7th, 2013 @ 6:44 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It’s an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791– standing guard in the early days of the Republic, and contemplating the future of warfare here in the 21st century.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 @ 11:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lady Thatcher was a woman of honor, courage, high principled who endured ridicule and hatred for saving the British Empire.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2013 @ 12:09 pm
By: Alicia Colon
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Walter Jones, Jr. has got quite a cult following. The folks who read "Mother Jones" AND The Ron Paul fan club are both swooning over him.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 11:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Nothing bristles dedicated conservatives like the word 'amnesty' tossed around while Congress debates immigration reform.
Published: Monday, February 18th, 2013 @ 1:39 am
By: Alicia Colon
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On February 12, 2013, Candidate Obama delivered his 5th State of the Union Address, an address concocted of misstatements and fantasies crafted to embolden the low-information voter / citizen that is over half of his electoral base that re-elected the Candidate to the presidency of the United State.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 9:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Conservative pundits like Ann Coulter, Karl Rove, Michael Barron, Charles Krauthammer et al were fairly confident in their predictions that Romney would sweep to victory.
Published: Sunday, November 25th, 2012 @ 8:13 pm
By: Alicia Colon
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One of these numbers represents smoke and mirrors and a false sense of security; the other represents transparency in crime reporting, and an opportunity to regain control of our nation's immigration law enforcement mechanisms.
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 @ 2:03 pm
By: Jeff Lewis
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I have been asked recently to sign a petition requesting that all those military men and women who were murdered or wounded in the Fort Hood massacre be allowed to be awarded a Purple Heart.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2012 @ 3:00 am
By: George H. Schryer
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