As the Biden administration takes office, there will be a stark contrast with the Trump administration on almost all policy areas.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2021 @ 2:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Musk has been harshly critical of California's lockdown policies
Published: Thursday, December 10th, 2020 @ 9:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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Now that Joe Biden’s COVID policies are being unmasked, those who voted for him may be coming down with bad cases of buyer’s remorse.
Published: Friday, November 20th, 2020 @ 1:01 am
By: Judicial Watch
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The 2016 presidential campaign turned me into a judiciary junkie.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 12:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Nihal Krishan of the Washington Examiner highlights Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s leftward drift on key policy positions.
Published: Thursday, September 24th, 2020 @ 10:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' work to increase COVID-19 testing access has been cited as a national model in the Rockefeller Foundation’s newly-released National COVID-19 Testing & Tracing Action Plan.
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 @ 7:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a development that should shock no one, candidates for elected office are using the COVID-19 pandemic to push for policy ideas they already supported.
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2020 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The John Locke Foundation’s research team is putting out a package of policy recommendations focused on the Coronavirus this week.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald J. Trump has implemented policies that increase energy production and advance energy independence.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2019 @ 6:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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To everyone here today from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection, I want to you let you know that we love you, we support you, we will always have your back, and I think you know that.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Over the last two years, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has worked across the aisle to advance policies that support and benefit military families.
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 @ 11:07 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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In a 2011 Pope Center article entitled “Too Many Rhinestones,” Professors T. Norman Van Cott and the late Clarence Deitsch examined Ball State University’s (BSU) grade inflation problem
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2016 @ 10:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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New statewide employment data released today reveals that North Carolina has reached a major milestone adding more than 300,000 new jobs since Governor Pat McCrory entered office in 2013
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 @ 2:03 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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On the same night that the DOJ announced it would not withhold federal funds to NC while the lawsuits over HB2 play out
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2016 @ 3:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The term "Zero Tolerance," as it applies to school policies, is well known in society. Examples that might come to mind include a seven-year-old being suspended for eating a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun or a teen being suspended for wearing an American flag shirt.
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2016 @ 6:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Does the new bill limit or prohibit private sector companies from adopting their own nondiscrimination policies or practices?
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 12:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Mark Warner (D-VA) at a press conference to introduce the "Veterans Health Care Staffing Improvement Act," which makes common-sense changes to staffing policies at the Department of Veterans Affairs to...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:46 am
By: Chris Downey
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) voted in favor of S.2146, the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 3:55 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Higher education has already become an important issue in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary race. It should receive considerable attention in the first primary date, scheduled for October 13 on CNN.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last week, the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released the state's annual teacher turnover report. The overall turnover rate for the 2014-2015 school year climbed to 14.84 percent, a 0.7 percent increase from a year prior. The release of the report generated extensive media coverage, a...
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 7:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is now being acknowledged by even its staunchest supporters that the solar industry in North Carolina is completely a creature of government mandates and subsidies and could never stand on its own without wealth transfers from taxpayers and rate payers. In other words, it is completely welfare...
Published: Saturday, September 12th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was named head coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill wrestling team in 2003. I was fired this past June. The athletic director has publicly stated that I was fired for "performance"; specifically, that I had not been successful in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 5:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina taxpayers are about to get stuck with a big bill - if the General Assembly continues the state's "Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard" (REPS) and renewable energy tax credit policies.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 @ 7:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A withering state audit uncovered a pattern of abuses by a division director at the Department of Health and Human Services, unearthing $1.6 million in excessive salaries and wages, rampant nepotism, failure to follow state policies, and continuing lax oversight at the agency.
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A good and wise minister friend of mine sent me a most insightful article concerning the situation in Baltimore.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 @ 2:36 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Among the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill there are two quite different views of the university's recent athletic/academic scandal.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 @ 4:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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There's nothing more revealing about a news medium than the way it deals with its own errors. Is it, to use human terms, honest, forthright, and sincerely sorry, or is it evasive, sneaky, and dishonest?
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 1:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina's tax burden has no effect on business decisions and the performance of the economy, as left-of-center politicians and editorialists have repeatedly insisted, then why are they so enamored with targeted tax breaks?
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past four years, state policymakers in Raleigh have adopted a series of sweeping changes in public policy, including a new state tax code, school choice, new energy policies, election laws, and historic reforms of the regulatory process. Some North Carolinians have welcomed these...
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 4:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressives everywhere are calling for an increase in the minimum wage. The amount of the increase depends on who is calling for it. President Obama wants a 40 percent hike from the current minimum of $7.25 to $10.30 per hour, while others, including some trade unions, are asking for more than a...
Published: Monday, January 5th, 2015 @ 12:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I know Christmas Day has come and gone, but we ought to try to retain the holiday spirit as long as we can. That's why I'm urging compassion for a downtrodden group that doesn't often receive it: North Carolina's liberal commentators.
Published: Thursday, January 1st, 2015 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler: Why do those who seem most adamant that government programs are the best way to serve the needs of the poor also seem the least interested in whether those programs actually work?
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 8:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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