North Carolina’s largest corporation, Bank of America, received pushback after announcing last week they created a home loan program only available in black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 @ 9:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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His emphasis on increased policing echoes the Locke Foundation's research
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Writing at City Jounal, John D. Sailer reports:
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2022 @ 8:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Street violence has claimed the lives of far too many innocent Black children, and the current spike in violent crime makes the problem worse
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2022 @ 9:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new N.C. House bill would expand administrative law judges' ability to kill state government rules.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2022 @ 8:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On May 4, U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican who represents North Carolina’s far west in Congress, commented on Twitter that the release of a sexual video of him was “blackmail.”
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 10:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The current spike in homicides and other violent crime has created an urgent need for more and better policing
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 6:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, Politico published a draft opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and today the court confirmed that the leaked document is genuine.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 11:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"The integrity of a multi-member court’s decision-making process relies on the longstanding tradition of confidential deliberations," N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 8:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent YouGov survey finds that a solid majority of Republicans distrust every source other than Fox News, and even Fox barely breaks the 50% level. Democrats, on the other hand, seem to think most media outlets are pretty trustworthy.
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As explained in the previous installment in this series, the evidence clearly shows that police presence deters crime.
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2022 @ 8:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Institute for Justice has posted a report about a recent decision by the U.S. Court of a Appeals for the Second Circuit:
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On October 7, 1969, the Montreal Police called a wildcat strike. Next morning, the Montreal Gazette described the result:
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 8:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A previous installment in this series described the alarming wave of crime that swept the country in the second half of the 20th century and its disastrous impact on Blacks and the poor.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That’s the title of a recent piece at the College Fix. The author, Christian Schneider, goes on to say:
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 11:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Feb. 14, 2022, on behalf of the John Locke Foundation, Jon Guze joined several legal scholars in submitting a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting review of a highly important Second Amendment case, Bianchi v. Frosh.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 11:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Based on a 4-3 vote from the state Supreme Court, a congressional election map drawn by legislators gets tossed out.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 8:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As part of our commitment to the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the John Locke Foundation has joined a brief in Bianchi v. Frosh, a critical Second Amendment case in which the plaintiffs are requesting review by the U.S. Supreme Court, formally known as a Petition for Writ of Certiorari
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 10:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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That’s the title of a study that appeared last month in the The European Physical Journal Plus
Published: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 @ 11:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The previous installment in this series described the disastrous effect the late 20th century crime wave had on Black and poor Americans.
Published: Sunday, February 20th, 2022 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state’s Department of Health and Human Services says its newly revised K-12 Toolkit is a guideline for school districts, but it won’t hold up to state laws.
Published: Friday, February 18th, 2022 @ 12:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week John McCormack earned a “like” from me for pointing out that “Biden can keep his SCOTUS campaign promise and win the vote of every Republican senator” simply by nominating Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would take up a case challenging UNC-Chapel Hill’s admissions policy, the court made the rare decision to shorten the normal federal appeals process.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 6:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In terms of crime and public order, the middle decades of the 20th century were a period of remarkable tranquility.
Published: Thursday, January 27th, 2022 @ 11:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to make what could be a landmark ruling on the constitutionality of affirmative action after justices decided Monday, Jan. 24, to take up cases arising from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 2:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The first time crime really hit home for me was when a thug pointed a gun at a family member’s head while she was making an after-hours bank transaction.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 7:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s Certificate of Need statute intentionally restricts the supply of medical services. It forces medical service providers to obtain a certificate of need (CON) before opening new or expanded facilities, installing new or additional equipment, or even, in some instances, treating more
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thanks to a series of egregious policy blunders, crime has once again become a pressing issue in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 3:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jon Guze, senior fellow in legal studies at the John Locke Foundation, explains his support for increased policing.
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2022 @ 6:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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At the John Locke Foundation we have been highly critical of Gov. Roy Cooper’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis ever since he issued his first lockdown order in March of 2020
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 3:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Should Democrats on the State Supreme Court make the highly partisan and controversial move of forcing two Republican State Supreme Court Justices off a critical case to decide the fate of voter-approved state constitutional amendments requiring voter ID and lowering the maximum income tax rate.
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 8:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Demographer Steven Ruggles has been pointing the problems out for some time
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 8:20 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: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 12:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Left-wing activist plaintiffs have filed another motion to block a Republican Supreme Court justice from hearing a high-profile election-related lawsuit. But they lost one of their lawyers along the way.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 2:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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