Much political debate in recent years has focused on income inequality in the United States and what, if anything, the federal government ought to do about it
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This is a new series of posts on Beaufort County Now which showcases various different political issue in video format. Each week, the series will post three to four political commentaries from independent video producers online. To see the previous addition of the series
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2016 @ 5:45 am
By: Sabe Wilis
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Local media and leftist blogs are drenched in outrage over House Bill 2, which was known as "the Bathroom Bill" until they figured out they needed to focus attention about it somewhere else.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2016 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 10:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I recently had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 6:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rocker Bruce Springsteen, a.k.a. "The Boss", will not perform in North Carolina as long as the state enacts legislation (HB 2) to protect children from being forced to use bathrooms and locker rooms with people of the opposite sex.
Published: Sunday, May 1st, 2016 @ 1:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, April 28th, 2016 @ 8:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week I had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee (you can view my presentation here)...
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 5:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The answer is probably both. And that should scare you, but not because Trump is a terrible person; he's not, just a terrible politician; however, the surreal and frightening aspect of Donald J. Trump is that he is a very good mirror, a high definition mirror.
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 @ 6:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's hard to reach the right conclusion when you start with false premises.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past 12 months, North Carolina has experienced faster income growth than the rest of the country, regardless of whether that growth is measured as average income per person or median income by household.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, ace Carolina Journal reporter Dan Way brought a fascinating yet frightening UNESCO email to my attention. The organization announced a new campaign that calls on teachers "to become advocates for education to help lobby for progress toward achieving the new sustainable development agenda.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 3:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of the most prominent liberals in the Senate have joined forces to take on the big banks as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has announced that he is teaming up with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to co-sponsor her bill that would reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.
Published: Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 @ 6:51 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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John Cochrane (AKA "The Grumpy Economist") has posted a long meditation entitled "Rule of Law and the Regulatory State" in which he makes a very important...
Published: Wednesday, August 12th, 2015 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One day, Bill Bennett may be best remembered for saying (in 1987, while he was President Reagan's education secretary) that government student aid was largely responsible for the fact that the cost of going to college kept rising. What is called the "Bennett Hypothesis" has been heavily debated
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I usually try not to call attention to a lot of the stupidity that oozes through the drive-by media. (There's so frickin' much of it.)
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2015 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Left of-center pundits and politicians have spent a lot of time recently bemoaning growing income inequality in the United States. James Piereson, president of the William E. Simon Foundation and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says the focus on inequality diverts attention from more...
Published: Sunday, February 15th, 2015 @ 10:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am sure many of you rushed home last night, cleared your schedule, and camped out in front of the TV awaiting breathlessly the latest pronouncements of our Dear Leader.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 12:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Sluggish economic growth poses a greater problem for the United States than income inequality. The featured speaker for Duke University's latest Hayek Lecture delivered that message Tuesday on campus.
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 3:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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US wealth gap putting squeeze on state revenue.
Published: Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 @ 9:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Last month, in a sermon the media described as "fire and thunder," the Rev. William Barber, head of the NC NAACP, mounted the pulpit of Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and began to excoriate all things political - to the right.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 9:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Women in this country put in 100% of the work that men do - but get paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man receives.
Published: Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 @ 3:44 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It is a Conundrum: Do we continue to subsidize those that are work free, or do we endeavor to help them rejoin the workforce by providing them the ultimate incentive - one works to exist on some level?
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 @ 10:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The "Moral Monday" nonsense is still raging at the legislative building in Raleigh. It's even spawned a sequel: "Witness Wednesday."
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 11:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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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On July 24, in the county seat of Greenville, NC, the Pitt County Board of Elections gave the green light to a revised plan for early voting which will include two Sundays.
Published: Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 @ 1:41 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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The United States has been slipping in recent international rankings of economic freedom, including the Fraser Institute's widely publicized Economic Freedom of the Word annual report.
Published: Friday, April 6th, 2012 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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