We're getting earth-shattering, heart-breaking, and sometimes infuriating details about the travesties that occurred at our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year.
Published: Saturday, May 11th, 2013 @ 8:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The catch phrase "privatizing Medicaid" currently thrown around in the media is misleading.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2013 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My diligent efforts to bring you the best intelligence and insight into Carolina politics put me into contact with a diverse array of people from across our two states.
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 2:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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For years, a large percentage of North Carolina's high school students have graduated without proficiency in either math or reading--and sometimes lacking in both.
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2013 @ 10:10 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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Do you take vitamins? For many if not most people, it's a good idea. It ensures that even if you don't always maintain a varied and healthful diet, your body gets the baseline level of nutrients.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 @ 4:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 35, with primary sponsors Rayne Brown (R-Davidson) and George Cleveland (R-Onslow), would repeal the statutory authority enabling the state to issue Certificates of Participation (COPs) as a form of debt financing.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 11:49 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N&O's Craig Jarvis has me puzzled with his latest piece on Skvarla, entitled "What's Skvarla Think About Global Warming?"
Published: Sunday, February 10th, 2013 @ 4:28 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The average North Carolinian has endured hundreds of broadcast ads, print mailers, emails, phone calls, news stories, and personal visits about politics during the 2012 election cycle.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 12:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission's (CRC) forecast of sea level rise from climate change is far greater than the consensus estimate of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 9:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2007, county commissioners asked the legislature to give them more taxing authority. Ever increasing demands for services, especially related to population and student growth, created pressure for additional revenue sources.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 7:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If predictions of more than three feet of rising sea levels by 2100 have you ready to flee from your beach house, a leading climate scientist might be ready to take your place on the North Carolina coast. He explains why in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2012 @ 7:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If predictions of more than three feet of rising sea levels by 2100 have you ready to flee from your beach house, a leading climate scientist might be ready to take your place on the North Carolina coast. He explains why in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Friday, October 5th, 2012 @ 10:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2012 Legislative Session was especially notable for authorizing legislation to set the stage for energy exploration in North Carolina. The legislature also passed several important bills to limit job-killing environmental regulations, while maintaining environmental protection.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2012 @ 9:18 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Environmental pressure groups, activist scientists, and the legacy media are predictably upset by the movement of a bill through the N.C. General Assembly that requires state policies dependent on sea level forecasts to be based on historical trends, rather than speculative computer projections.
Published: Sunday, June 17th, 2012 @ 4:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The below reports are from Jessica Hult and Jenny Cooper both of whom attended the NCGOP Convention last weekend and handed out the attached flyer. Both were approached and questioned (grilled?) about the flyer. Below they report their experiences.
Published: Friday, June 8th, 2012 @ 11:55 am
By: Esther Graham
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On Feb. 19, 2012 the lead article in the WDN tells us that according to the intrepid chairman of NC-20 (a coalition of 20 eastern North Carolina counties) "We killed sea level rise inflation".
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2012 @ 7:59 am
By: Jim Bispo
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State officials are pressuring local governments to plan for a one-meter sea-level rise by 2100, even though many independent scientists have argued the rise is highly unlikely if not impossible.
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 @ 1:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Albert S. Cratch went home to be with his Lord on July 22, 2011. He was born on April 30, 1920, in the Blount’s Creek area of Beaufort County to Albert S. Cratch and Lula Bennett Cratch.
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2011 @ 3:29 pm
By: Announcements
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