Like Quantrill sacking Lawrence and taking The War of Northern Aggression into Kansas, Hamas has struck Israel with a vengeance by carrying the battle into the opposition heartland.
Published: Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 @ 9:21 pm
By: The Correspondent
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RALEIGH – More than $30.1 million from the N.C. Volkswagen Settlement Program will be distributed by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to fund 161 new school buses across the state, with the majority of the funding going toward new all-electric school buses.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 12:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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European manufacturers are taking severe hits as high energy prices continue to grapple with the continent’s economy.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 1:49 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A bit more than what they ordered
Published: Thursday, September 29th, 2022 @ 3:53 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Currently, North Carolina’s middle school health standards require educators to address various environmental problems
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 12:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Biden administration is targeting the largest oil-producing area in the United States: the Permian basin, located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 2:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Threatens to stop production
Published: Thursday, June 30th, 2022 @ 5:22 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Remarks by President Biden on the Economy
Published: Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 @ 10:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The vast majority of conservatives accept that government can and should intervene in private affairs when required to protect the rights to life, liberty, and property.
Published: Friday, November 27th, 2020 @ 8:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina ranks 11th in the Fraser Institute’s latest national economic freedom rankings.
Published: Thursday, November 19th, 2020 @ 10:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Games against eight bowl qualifiers and three prime-time non-Saturday contests highlight a balanced East Carolina 2020 football schedule released Tuesday by the American Athletic Conference.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 3:21 am
By: ECU Sports
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Preserving and improving the quality of breathable air is the life work of Dr. R.K.M. Jayanty, adjunct professor of biological and agricultural engineering at N.C. State, who spoke at East Carolina University on Nov. 7.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 9:14 am
By: ECU News Services
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Do political movements ever really accomplish anything? The English writer G.K. Chesterton had his doubts
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2018 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Subtropical Storm Alberto continues to bring heavy rains, flooding and the potential for landslides to North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper urged residents to take seriously the storm, which has claimed two lives in the state
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2018 @ 8:21 am
By: Governor's Office
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Though Subtropical Depression Alberto is weakening, the threat of additional rain means North Carolinians need to remain vigilant and watch for area flooding in low-lying areas and landslides in the mountains, Governor Roy Cooper said today
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 @ 5:29 pm
By: Governor's Office
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When pollsters ask voters to list the issues they care about most, economic concerns usually rank high on the list - even when unemployment rates are relatively low
Published: Monday, May 14th, 2018 @ 5:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many Americans will be surprised to hear that Britain is once again going to the polls, for what will be the third time in as many years
Published: Sunday, May 7th, 2017 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) and 37 of his colleagues wrote to President Donald Trump expressing concerns over the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan (CPP), Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS), and Ozone Standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) Rules
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2017 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The graph below compares the temperature predictions of the major climate models to actual climate change figures using satellite data, considered to be the most accurate, going back to 1979 when satellite records began. The graph, compiled by University of Alabama at Huntsville climatologists...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an article from WRAL.com lamenting the fact that economic development grants made by the state of North Carolina did not "create" as many jobs as originally intended, John Skvarla, North Carolina's Commerce Secretary and number 1 cheerleader for taxpayer funded business incentives, stated that...
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 2:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this lecture to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers delivered this week, Patrick Moore, ecologist as well as founder and long time leader of Greenpeace, argues that the planet has actually been in a long term (50 million year) cooling trend; that long term temperature records...
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 3:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As part of his remarks while visiting the White House on his first day in the United States, Pope Francis made a strong plea on behalf of religious liberty, which he specifically directed at President Obama. This came shortly before he made an unscheduled visit with the Little Sisters of the Poor...
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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That North Carolina's system of automobile inspections persists is, as I wrote in my 2013 report on Carolina Cronyism, "a triumph of cronyism." North Carolina is one of only 17 states that require safety inspections of automobiles, though there have been frequent legislative efforts to end them...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of us who have been fighting to eliminate solar and other renewable energy subsidies from the burden being born by North Carolina's taxpayers, the new state budget is very welcome. As of January 1, the 35 percent tax credit for renewables in general and solar in particular, by far the...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is now being acknowledged by even its staunchest supporters that the solar industry in North Carolina is completely a creature of government mandates and subsidies and could never stand on its own without wealth transfers from taxpayers and rate payers. In other words, it is completely welfare...
Published: Saturday, September 12th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have never been a fan of the Fair Tax, a proposal to abolish the income tax and substitute a national sales tax. My opposition has nothing to do with the merits of a national sales tax as opposed to an income tax per se. Clearly, as an economist, I agree that the proper and most efficient tax...
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 9:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At a recent event with Harry Reid in Las Vegas President Obama accused conservatives of being inconsistent in their support for free markets. Why? Apparently because they are "not for" solar power. Here's what he had to say to the gathering...
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 4:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The answer is obvious. It's a minimum wage increase that prices competition out of the market while exempting companies with a unionized work force.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Economic Concept Of Crowding Out Explains How Government Money To Planned Parenthood Funds AbortionsRegardless of how one feels about abortion or Planned Parenthood generally, this article by Manhattan Institute economist Preston Cooper explains why it makes no sense to argue that government funding of Planned Parenthood is not subsidizing abortions. Cooper invokes the economic concept of...
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 12:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In his recent article titled "Fooled by GDP: Economic Activity vs Economic Growth" for the Freeman (monthly magazine of the Foundation for Economic Education), Professor Steve Horwitz of St. Lawrence University asks and answers a very important question: Does Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measure...
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory has announced that, as part of his "all-of-the-above" energy strategy (whatever that means), North Carolina will be getting its first industrial size wind-farm, part of a partnership between Amazon and a wind power company called Iberdrola. Of course, probably the most important...
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 4:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A study just released in Nature Geoscience comes to the following conclusion, as stated in the article's abstract...
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine that you are the CEO of a company, and there are several different materials or technologies that you can use to produce your product. For example, it is not unusual that a product can be made using steel, aluminum, or plastic. Within those categories, it can be made using different...
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. Ivar Giaever, 1973 Nobel Prize winner in the field of Physics and an Obama voter, argued recently at a conference of Nobel Laureates in Germany that global warming was a "non problem." According to a story published at ClimateDepot.com...
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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