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The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced this week new sanctions against officers in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their efforts to assassinate U.S. government officials.
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2023 @ 8:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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A former FBI official claimed the bureau denied Boston Field Office agents access to 11,000 hours of U.S. Capitol video footage on January 6 out of fear it would reveal the identities of possible undercover officers and confidential informants present at the riot.
Published: Sunday, June 4th, 2023 @ 11:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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Compared with most states’ laws, North Carolina’s asset forfeiture laws do an excellent job of protecting innocent property owners and discouraging abuse
Published: Sunday, June 4th, 2023 @ 11:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The world is on the precipice of a financial-asset bear market as global bond structures transition from negative real rates to pricing that represents current economic reality.
Published: Thursday, April 6th, 2023 @ 8:01 am
By: The Correspondent
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Archeologists working in the Middle East say they've uncovered the world's oldest cassette tape, which they believe was used as a mix tape by the biblical Jacob in his lengthy courtship with Rachel, as detailed in the first book of Moses called Genesis.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 11:51 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Joshua Bassett, star of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” firmly declared his Christian faith while giving a speech at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Saturday.
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 @ 6:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Strive Asset Management Executive Chairman Vivek Ramaswamy, a former biotechnology executive and a leading voice against the ESG investing movement, teased a possible bid for the White House on Monday.
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 4:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ warned investment companies that they would lose access to state funds in two months if they fail to prove they are not involved in the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 6:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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Law enforcement in the Bahamas revealed on Thursday that officials seized assets belonging to defunct cryptocurrency platform FTX and moved them to a government-controlled wallet for “safekeeping.”
Published: Saturday, November 26th, 2022 @ 7:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Strive Asset Management announced a new index fund that will push corporate America to pursue profits rather than social agendas.
Published: Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 @ 11:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Asset management company BlackRock contends that the Federal Reserve is not effectively maintaining a balance between reducing inflation and avoiding a downturn amid widespread pressure to control higher prices.
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 12:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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Asset management company Vanguard hosted a diversity training in July asking white men to accept “uncomfortable” criticism about their implicit biases, footage obtained by The Daily Wire shows.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Commission Votes to Transfer Assets, Obligations to Scotland County
Published: Sunday, June 12th, 2022 @ 9:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Turmoil in Town of Spring Lake on Agenda for Monthly Teleconference with Reporters
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 @ 11:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. has deployed significant assets in the region.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 @ 3:22 pm
By: LifeZette
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President Donald J. Trump signed Space Policy Directive - 3 directing the United States to lead the management of traffic and mitigate the effects of debris in space.
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 @ 5:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. General Assembly is scheduled to return for the 2018 short legislative session on Wednesday, May 16
Published: Sunday, May 6th, 2018 @ 11:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The econometric issue in question was a focus of mine in graduate school and as a faculty member at Columbia. It is the issue of how to generate causal estimates of the effect of policy changes.
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 @ 6:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Civil asset forfeiture is inherently unjust, as I’ve explained many times in the past because it empowers law enforcement agencies to confiscate property from people who have never been charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2018 @ 3:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's pension plan value surpassed $100 billion for the first time in recent days, but volatility in the stock market has eroded a chunk of the gains, state Treasurer Dale Folwell reported
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 12:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, head of Disney Animation John Lasseter took a leave of absence from Pixar after admitting "missteps" and "painful" conversations with staff. He did not specify the missteps or the content of the conversations.
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 @ 4:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. House of Representatives just took a knife to funding for the federal civil asset forfeiture program - a move that could help protect innocent North Carolinians and their property
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2017 @ 7:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Under federal civil asset forfeiture, local and state law enforcement officers can take your property, including cash, if they suspect said property was somehow connected to a crime
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2017 @ 3:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper is determined to break the Republican supermajority in the General Assembly, and he's trying to raise as much money as possible to do it
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2017 @ 5:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Keith Edwin Bassett, 69, of Chocowinity, NC passed away on Wednesday, March 8, after suffering a heart attack on the golf course at Cypress Landing
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 @ 11:00 am
By: Announcements
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As regular readers already know, civil asset forfeiture is a legal process that empowers government agents to confiscate property they suspect has been used for, or derived from, criminal activity. It is a civil action against the property itself, which means the owner need not be convicted of a...
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A General Assembly subcommittee is looking at state property with an eye toward selling land and buildings the state owns but doesn't need, and seeing if it might save rent by moving from leased spaces to unused or underused state property.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2015 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A resolution is on the Tuesday, July 7th, 2015, Beaufort County Board of Commissioners meeting agenda to dissolve the above described 9 member board, also known as the “Hospital Board”.
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 @ 5:07 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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When Vidant agreed to lease BC Hospital, they refused to assume the liabilities that were lurking from past mismanagement, an amount estimated to be around $22 million.
Published: Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 @ 1:29 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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A new report from FeedomWorks gives North Carolina's asset forfeiture program an A-, the second highest score in the country. In explaining North Carolina's high score, the report cites two factors: (1) "The government can only forfeit property if the owner has been convicted of a crime;" and...
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2015 @ 3:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If sportswriter Sally Jenkins has her facts right, the NFL's handling of the allegations about underinflated AFC Championship game balls seems to have fallen short of even the most rudimentary standards of justice...
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2015 @ 11:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the first newsletter I wrote for the John Locke Foundation, I welcomed Eric Holder's announcement that the Department of Justice - the country's top law enforcement agency - would be reigning in its out-of-control and abusive civil asset forfeiture program. Unfortunately, as George Leef...
Published: Thursday, May 14th, 2015 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I have previously explained, civil asset forfeiture is an obnoxious legal process that empowers law enforcement agencies to confiscate property they suspect has been used in, or derived from, criminal activity. Part of what makes this process so abhorrent is the fact that, because it is a...
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2015 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In my previous newsletter, I called Eric Holder's January 16th order modifying the DOJ's civil asset forfeiture policy "a significant step in the right direction," and I encouraged my readers to join me in hoping, not only that more reform would follow but also that Holder's order might mark...
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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