Chapel Hill is known mainly for two things: (1) Great basketball and (2) loony-tunes lefty nuttiness. Basketball is down a little bit this year.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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While the state House leadership is talking about watering stuff down, slowing things down, appeasing the Democrats to "get stuff done,"
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 11:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One part of the legislation will repeal the Racial Justice Act, which many believe was a back-door tactic to get rid of the death penalty.
Published: Friday, March 15th, 2013 @ 9:12 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Pat and his troops are headed to battle stations over the bill passed by the state Senate which blocks ObamaCare-related Medicaid expansion.
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It's becoming increasingly clear that the state House leadership and the governor's office are working in tandem.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 11:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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During the 2009 Session of the General Assembly, Senator Floyd McKissick(D) from Durham County introduced the Racial Justice Act SB461. The act provides a process by which statistical evidence could be used to establish that race was the basis for seeking or obtaining the death penalty in any case.
Published: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 @ 10:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many scandals are about crimes and money, but equally destructive are scandals that corrode our sense of honor.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2013 @ 9:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I am getting sick and tired of seeing news stories that start off with that wording. The congressional GOP has "softened" its stance on -- among other things -- taxes, spending, immigration, and regulations.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 6:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Three more violent criminals escaped death row today -- thanks to a radically leftist Superior Court judge and a "gift" that keeps on giving from the NC General Assembly called The Racial Justice Act.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2012 @ 8:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The closing arguments in North Carolina's initial Racial Justice Act (RJA) concluded a few weeks ago in Fayetteville, and the public will be waiting for another one or two months for the ruling.
Published: Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 @ 9:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The closing arguments in North Carolina's initial Racial Justice Act (RJA) concluded a few weeks ago in Fayetteville, and the public will be waiting for another one or two months for the ruling.
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 @ 12:56 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Once again, we got treated to a double-header of televised political brilliance.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 10:09 am
By: Brant Clifton
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On Tuesday evening, the second presidential debate of 2012 put President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney in a town hall-style forum moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley.
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 4:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The race for N.C. House District 9 features a Republican newcomer to politics against an incumbent Democrat in a district where the political dynamics have been altered by redistricting.
Published: Thursday, October 11th, 2012 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The candidates for the District 1 seat in the North Carolina Senate agree on two key transportation issues that have dominated coastal Carolina headlines, but that's where the common ground ends.
Published: Monday, October 1st, 2012 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2012 short session has come to a close, marking a dramatic shift from legislative bienniums of the past, both in length and accomplishments.
Published: Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 @ 8:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In 2009, the NC General Assembly passed S.L. 2009-464, also known as the Racial Justice Act. The law provided that in capital cases defendants could use statistical evidence to prove racial bias in their case.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 7:16 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For the activists who have fought for years to abolish North Carolina's death penalty, the just-completed short session was a crushing disappointment.
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2012 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When North Carolina's first Republican legislature in more than a century adjourned just before the July 4th holiday, assessments of its handiwork over the past two years couldn't have been more varied.
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2012 @ 11:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, House Majority Leader, released the following statements today after the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of Senate Bill 416, which modifies the procedures for the death penalty.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An override of Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's budget veto highlighted a day of votes in which the Republican-controlled General Assembly shot down the governor's vetoes three times.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 3:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While much is written on the murderers and their allies who are using North Carolina's Racial Justice Act (RJA) to try and get themselves off of death row, we seldom hear about the victims.
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 @ 9:56 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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With the $20.1 billion budget headed to the Senate floor, lawmakers are beginning to talk seriously about ending the 2012 short session of the General Assembly. Yet a few items remain on their to-do list.
Published: Friday, June 15th, 2012 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Expect Short Session To Live Up To Its Name
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 5:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently the first case to be heard under the Racial Justice Act (RJA) was decided in Cumberland County in favor of the defendant, Marcus Robinson.
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 10:41 am
By: Seth H. Edwards
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The 2009 Racial Justice Act ("RJA") was passed based on incomplete data.
Published: Monday, January 2nd, 2012 @ 10:27 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Yesterday Governor Beverly Perdue vetoed SB 9 "An Act to Reform the Racial Justic Act of 2009 to be consistent with the United State Supreme Court Ruling in McClaskey v. Kemp".
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2011 @ 10:11 am
By: Bill Cook
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