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I think it was Albert Einstein who once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2014 @ 8:09 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The NSA has been getting a lot of what surely is unwelcome (to them) press and TV coverage lately.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 @ 2:29 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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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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Waste Industries USA, Inc. is based out of Raleigh, North Carolina and is one of the fastest growing waste and recycling service companies in the Southeast. Lonnie C. Poole Jr., a graduate from NC State University, founded the company in 1970.
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 8:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Major college sports like football and basketball produce revenue streams in the billions. In recent years, the NCAA, powerhouse conferences, teams, television stations, and coaches have profited at an unprecedented rate. In North Carolina, for example, the highest-paid public official is not...
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Just five months after releasing a report that outlined key questions surrounding new Common Core public school education standards, the John Locke Foundation has revised and expanded the report - nearly doubling the number of questions answered.
Published: Monday, September 23rd, 2013 @ 12:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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They filed a lawsuit against Governor McCrory for signing common sense election reforms into law, and now have they want to pull the Civitas Institute into their lawsuit like some kind of co-conspirator.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 1:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Political debates about education policy are so contentious that consensus may seem forever out of reach. Yet here's something that virtually everyone agrees is true: academic achievement reflects more than just the value added by teachers, administrators, textbooks, and technology...
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ellmers, Foxx, Hudson vote with Boehner (and a bunch of Dems) to preserve NSA surveillance overreachI'm a big fan of empowering law enforcement and the military to hunt down and destroy foreign bad guys trying to do harm to innocent Americans.
Published: Monday, July 29th, 2013 @ 2:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina conservatives have embraced parental choice and competition as indispensable elements of education reform for decades. Now that conservatives are in the majority in state government, you can expect more proposals to...
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new performance audit shows that the N.C. Industrial Commission has been lax in monitoring data to make sure North Carolina businesses are keeping up with their duty to provide workers' compensation insurance for their employees.
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 7:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback have all called for their states to eliminate their income tax and replace it with a sales tax over the past week.
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 5:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The physical abandonment of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh is a final exclamation point on the state's moral abandonment of the mentally ill, essentially returning us to mid-19th century conditions when the mentally ill were confined to jails, locked in attics or hidden from sight in poorhouses.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 8:14 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Much has changed for the good concerning North Carolina's regulatory environment with the passage of the Regulatory Reform Act (RRA) of 2011, tort reform, medical malpractice reform, and workers' compensation reform.
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I observed yesterday, the new budget plan for 2012-13 contains many good provisions. I admit to being frustrated, however, at the unwillingness of conferees to include $10 million to compensate victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program.
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly has completed its work on the state's nearly $20.2 billion General Fund budget. It's now on Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's desk.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 10:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House and Senate budget negotiators have reached a compromise $20.2 billion General Fund budget deal for the upcoming fiscal year that provides 1.2 percent raises to state employees and teachers while restoring $251 million in previous cuts to public education.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 3:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From 1929 to 1974, more than 7,000 forced sterilizations were performed in North Carolina. The state-sponsored Eugenics Board, which was responsible for ordering sterilizations sanctioned by the government, was not abolished until 1977.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2012 @ 8:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Victims of the state's forced sterilization program moved a step closer to getting $50,000 in compensation apiece after the House Judiciary Committee gave its blessing to the proposal on Tuesday.
Published: Sunday, May 27th, 2012 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I, like many others, mourned the passing of John Lennon in December, 1980. Not unlike those sad times, Levon Helm of the The Band, passed today, and like the musical promise of John Lennon, unfulfilled, he will be missed for all he accomplished.
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Progressives make a point that conservatives ought to take to heart: taxes are far from the only factors that households and businesses take into consideration when deciding where to live, work, invest, shop, or create new businesses.
Published: Sunday, April 15th, 2012 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Leslie Jerome Hedgebeth, 60, a resident of 114 Bateman St., Plymouth, died Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in Kinsale, Va.
Published: Friday, October 28th, 2011 @ 3:52 pm
By: Announcements
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