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A Google search on Pirates and New York City yields numerous results, including a Seattle Times article stating that in New York in 1692, “piracy was a leading economic-development tool in the city’s competition with the ports of Boston and Philadelphia.”
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 3:20 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Hey, umm, just a heads up here. All Babylon Bee articles will be delayed for a while because all of the writers are out panic-buying flowers for Valentine's Day.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 12:59 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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When the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on our state’s voter ID law on April 28th, the justices only had to answer one narrow question: “[Does the voter ID law] violate the meaningful protections set forth in Article I, Section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution?”
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a new article at the Journal of Public Economics, Zachary S. Fone, Joseph J. Sabia, and Resul Cesur report, “Using data from the 1998–2016 Uniform Crime Reports and a difference-in-differences approach, we find robust evidence that minimum wage hikes increase property crime arrests among 16-to-24
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A newly published journal article available from the U.S. National Institute of Health’s PubMed Central (PMC) repository offers — to put it mildly — a novel reason for the averred side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 2:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What do we do to rein in the N.C. Supreme Court? As I recommended in a previous article, we set up a process that allows the state legislature to override N.C. Supreme court decisions that are interfere with the legislature's enumerate authority to make laws as long as they do not violate the...
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 7:31 am
By: Alan Harrop
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The first thing I want to do is thank you Mr. Cratch for your article dated March 29th. This thanks is heartfelt and sincere.
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 9:08 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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The New York Times was forced to issue multiple, major corrections for an article published on Wednesday that falsely claimed 900,000 children had been hospitalized for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
Published: Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 @ 12:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Every columnist keeps a "clip file"- articles, stories or ideas from which to write future pieces. Sometimes that file becomes so full it's hard to choose just one topic on which to write.
Published: Friday, November 5th, 2021 @ 11:13 am
By: Tom Campbell
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I posted an article about how my dad reacted to the September 1, 2001 attack. He was 93 years old then.
Published: Sunday, May 10th, 2020 @ 8:02 am
By: Bobby Tony
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As the 2019 novel coronavirus – COVID-19 – continues to spread, Dr. Keith Ramsey, infection control chief for Vidant Health, said all Vidant facilities are prepared to treat patients who have the new virus.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 8:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) released the following statement after Democratic leadership announced the two Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump, which allege Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress.
Published: Wednesday, December 11th, 2019 @ 11:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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'The American people see this for what it is: yet another partisan attempt to overthrow a duly elected president and rob voters of the chance to re-elect him in 2020,' said RNC
Published: Wednesday, December 11th, 2019 @ 11:19 am
By: LifeZette
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North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley released the following statement
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 @ 12:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) issued the following statement after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the House of Representative will move forward with Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2019 @ 8:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The News and Observer has stooped to an all new low. While we have become accustomed to their slanted and biased articles, 'reporting' information fed to them by a far-left George Soros-run organization is unconscionable.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 10:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As did everyone else, I saw tons of articles in January about New Year's resolutions-how to make 'em and how to keep 'em.
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2019 @ 7:07 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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On October 16, 2018, Francisco Gonzalez wrote an article, or more aptly, a book review, entitled " Why Open Borders Are Bad for America's Immigrants"; it was published by The Federalist.
Published: Friday, January 4th, 2019 @ 12:03 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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An article written by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in 1992 while he attended Stanford University has reemerged as he calls for delaying the confirmation vote of Judge Brett Kavanaugh after a woman made a sexual misconduct allegation against him from over 35 years ago.
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2018 @ 1:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), a career-long anti-Semite with longtime associations with the Nation of Islam's anti-Semite extraordinaire Louis Farrakhan, penned an article at Medium complaining about the media's coverage of the connections between top Women's March leaders and Farrakhan
Published: Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 @ 4:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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This article, excerpted from Mike Scrugg's book THE UN-CIVIL WAR, discusses the first 13th Amendment, which was QUITE DIFFERENT from the one which was ratified in 1865.
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 @ 1:09 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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On June 29, 2017 the North Carolina House voted against SJR 36, the COS application for an Article V convention. The vote was 59 against; and 53 for. But a few hours later, COS and the Republican leadership got the members to vote to "reconsider" their vote against SJR 36
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2017 @ 3:28 pm
By: Publius Huldah
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A three-judge panel is currently tasked with interpreting one of our state's thorniest issues, namely who is in charge of public education. Is it to be the State Board of Education or the state Superintendent of Public Instruction?
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 @ 9:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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If this article does not interest you or you don't like to read any of BT's post , you have the free choice to move on without reading.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2017 @ 10:41 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Alex Ortolano recently posted an article here on BCN which explained how a Medivac crew located and picked up wounded soldiers during his tour in 1965. Here is another tribute to those Lunatics of the Sky.
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2017 @ 7:25 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Tuesday's edition of the Raleigh News & Observer included a fact-free editorial by a staffer of the George Soros-funded Budget & Tax Center - a project of the NC Justice Center.
Published: Saturday, October 29th, 2016 @ 12:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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My wish list post lottery I have posted before a couple of joke articles about hitting the lottery. I never really thought much about how I would spend the money if I did hit it big. But that is not to say that I don't have a simmering wish list in the back of my mind.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Anyone watching the higher education landscape these days can't help but note the proliferation of articles calling for free tuition. President Obama's January 2015 proposal to make the first two years of community college free spawned much of this discussion. While the proposal stalled, it did...
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2016 @ 1:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The "good" news is that, in this year's Super Bowl battle over which team fleeces its home city's taxpayers the least, Broncos or the Panthers, the winner is the Panthers by a pretty wide margin. According to this article by the Manhattan Institute's Jared Meyer (originally published in Forbes)...
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 @ 2:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an article from WRAL.com lamenting the fact that economic development grants made by the state of North Carolina did not "create" as many jobs as originally intended, John Skvarla, North Carolina's Commerce Secretary and number 1 cheerleader for taxpayer funded business incentives, stated that...
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 2:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A lengthy article in Forbes details why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's unprecedented "Clean Power Plan" (CPP) is not just a destructive and likely illegal regulatory overreach, but also impossible given what the author calls the "weird" physics of electricity.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A study just released in Nature Geoscience comes to the following conclusion, as stated in the article's abstract...
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tomorrow is the day we celebrate our nation's founding-and the first time that a nation was deliberately founded on reason and the rule of law instead of on accidents of history. The central question of this article is "how are the founding and related topics treated in today's academia?" It is a...
Published: Sunday, July 12th, 2015 @ 11:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A column this week in The News & Observer argues for the North Carolina Senate to reject a measure that would direct environmental officials to develop a state implementation plan with pending U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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You don't have to watch House of Cards on Netflix to witness political drama, intrigue and raw power plays.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 4:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Years ago I read an article in Reader's Digest concerning a man arrested in NYC as he took pictures after 9/11 of a government building.
Published: Friday, December 19th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Over the last couple of days two articles have come across my desk, one dated September 30, 2014, and the other dated June 11, 1986. Together, these two articles tell an interesting story about just how incredibly wrong the radical global warming alarmists have been.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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