That noisy bunch of grassroots folks in Widen I-77 have been creating quite a fuss in recent months.
Published: Monday, August 24th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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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More than 100 students, faculty, administrators, and political activists packed a lecture hall at UNC-Chapel Hill last Thursday to hear controversial indigenous studies professor Steven Salaita speak about academic freedom and censorship.
Published: Friday, February 13th, 2015 @ 6:15 am
By: John William Pope Center
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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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From its title, the casual reader might expect The Value of the Humanities to be a love letter to art, music, and literature. However, this book is not for the casual reader. It is written by a specialist, Oxford professor of English Helen Small, for other specialists who are trying to stay...
Published: Tuesday, April 15th, 2014 @ 3:21 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald's recent piece, "The Humanities and Us," in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where "gender, sexuality, race, and class" have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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One of the byproducts of social media is the rehashing of GIF-filled entertainment pages featuring cute animals, compilations of "photo bombs," and other time-wasters.
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2013 @ 4:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We all make mistakes. We err as individuals and as members of groups. All businesses commit errors. All churches, charities, and voluntary associations stumble. All governments screw up.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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How I do marvel at the credulity of academic man! Especially those professors who publish voluminously but cannot write, who take their Marx with white wine and brie while thousands of adjuncts support their families on French fries and English composition, who preach a tolerance as...
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 4:50 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Now that the General Assembly has made it clear North Carolina will not set up state insurance exchanges or expand Medicaid under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, I'm going to remind Carolina Journal readers what they know about the complicated issues involved that readers and viewers of...
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 3:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A friend bills himself as a socialist with libertarian tendencies.
Published: Thursday, November 15th, 2012 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is an epidemic of political whiplash being spread by North Carolina Democratic leaders. In 1996, then Senator Beverly Perdue voted for G.S. 51-1.2 - Marriages Between Persons of the Same Gender Not Valid.
Published: Monday, April 30th, 2012 @ 11:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I agree with the legislative intent to expand healthcare coverage to the 40 million uninsured Americans and preclude discrimination against Americans with preexisting conditions who are seeking coverage within the individual market.
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 @ 8:31 am
By: David Pring-Mill
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Meanwhile, the EDC is a tax payer financed commission competing in land sales with its tax paying neighbors, and vainly trying to rent space in competition with other landlords while neglecting to write a single grant for three and one half years.
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2011 @ 10:37 am
By: Warren Smith
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In a free enterprise system a person can only become rich by creating value or improving the lives of others. A person can only become rich by giving people what they want.
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 @ 9:53 am
By: Jeffrey Swann
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The Story of the best pulp fiction writer in "The Whole Wide World" was a whale of a tale. Pulp fiction writer Robert Ervin Howard, who in life was successful in the most difficult of times.
Published: Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 @ 10:54 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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