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2 events that clearly show otherwise
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 2:56 pm
By: John Steed
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Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) turned an Associated Press reporter’s question on its head, calling her out directly for intentionally framing her question in a way that would force him to compare former President Donald Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 12:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Trump campaign called a lawsuit seeking to ban the former president from the ballot in Colorado a political attack based on an “absurd conspiracy theory.”
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 9:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday that Nikki Haley calling for competency tests for office was “absurd” and ageist.
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2023 @ 1:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A Washington Post columnist conducted a surreal exercise in absurdity this week to explain why eggs — which have soared 138% in price — are “cheaper than you think.”
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 5:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Independent journalist Matt Taibbi released a supplemental edition of the Twitter Files on Friday which detailed the many requests made by the office of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to ban posts that criticized Joe Biden and purportedly advanced conspiracy theories.
Published: Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 @ 8:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Megyn Kelly slammed former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, saying that she was “just pandering” when she praised the vulgar “WAP” song by Cardi B featuring rapper Megan Thee Stallion during her Apple TV series “Gutsy.”
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 @ 10:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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Adding murder to Title IX as acceptable is absurd
Published: Saturday, September 17th, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder thought he’d try to expose the utter absurdity of modern academia — and it only took him a few months to do it.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:34 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The proposed remedial maps from the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters have a pattern of splitting cities
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joseph Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights an inconvenient fact for one voter ID opponent.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public education has a lot of problems these days.
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 @ 11:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The media and politicians tell us there is a "crisis," an "epidemic," an "outbreak," even a "catastrophe" gripping our country.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 9:09 am
By: Daily Wire
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Greg Murphy's use of Amy Kremer as his hatchet person is absurdity at its best!
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 9:31 pm
By: Chip Olmstead
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Over the past several weeks, Democrats have spent their time defending the absurd notion that America is in the midst of a constitutional crisis.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 5:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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According to the Post’s headline, “Mueller complained to Barr about memo on key findings.” But that wasn’t actually what Mueller was complaining about.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @ 5:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As the specifics (and many of the absurd objectives) of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal (GND) have come to light, the common refrain from Democrats who support it is that the plan is "aspirational."
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2019 @ 3:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a previous Update, I criticized a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upholding the absurd restrictions that New York City imposes on licensed gun owners who to transport their weapons from one place to another.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 7:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, CNN's Anderson Cooper ran a segment on "Anderson Cooper 360" featuring far-left activists David Hogg and Cameron Kasky in which both made a series of misleading statements using divisive rhetoric.
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 1:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a country so obsessed with civil liberties, how are even entertaining this absurd notion that speech on college campuses should be limited to protect feelings?
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 7:14 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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One of the advantages of observing the many incentives being thrown at Amazon is that it highlights the absurdities of cronyism and government meddling in the market
Published: Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 @ 12:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Wednesday, feminist writer Lindy West penned a truly absurd op-ed for The New York Times. The premise: that Americans don't want women to demonstrate their anger, even in cases of sexual harassment and assault.
Published: Saturday, November 11th, 2017 @ 3:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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Experts are using terms such as "absurd," and "silly" to describe a study, and an opinion column written by one of its founders, that purports North Carolina no longer is a functioning democracy, and that North Korea and Cuba rank higher for electoral integrity than the Tar Heel State
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 @ 4:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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An absurd observation on why profiling is a possible solution to identifying terrorist or rocks or shrimp.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2016 @ 10:24 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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E. M. Forster's frightening short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which all human activity has been subsumed by a global digital network similar to the Internet (except that Forster's version is controlled by a worldwide government bureaucracy)...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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This week's Bad Bill of the Week features the resurrection of a Bad Bill feature from two years ago. House Bill 609, The Healthy and High Performing Schools Act, is sponsored by Reps. Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford), Susan Fisher (D-Buncombe) and Becky Carney (D-Mecklenburg). HB 609 is a near...
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2015 @ 5:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina requires occupational licensing for more than 700 professions, which generates an absurd amount of bureaucracy and red tape. Occupational licensing forces people to pay a fee, and often go through needless additional training, in order to legally practice their profession in the state
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 8:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It's "simply, absolutely absurd" to accept a consultant's projections of new business that would result from expanding Raleigh's city-owned convention center. That's the assessment of a university professor who has studied convention centers across the country.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although hostilities have been underway for some time, I hereby issue a formal Declaration of War against silly, uninformed talking points repeated endlessly in North Carolina politics.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Absurd headlines are springing up in newspapers all across North Carolina stating: "Tax Credit Costs $336 Million in State Revenue."
Published: Friday, September 27th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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I don't find the structure of North Carolina's tax code to be at all surprising. I find it confusing, destructive, unfair, and absurd, as do most folks who have ever studied it. But no one should ever be surprised that tax systems are screwy.
Published: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Picture a peaceful, Amish farmer, selling one of nature's super foods - fresh, raw milk. Eager customers came from afar, even across state lines, to savor the taste and access a nutritious product. Who could oppose such harmonious commerce on Rainbow Acres Farm?
Published: Saturday, March 17th, 2012 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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