I hardly ever listen to talk radio anymore because I do not spend that much time in the auto as I did when I was working for living. Nevertheless, yesterday I had to spend about an hour in the car and the only thing on the radios, AM or FM worth listening to (???) was Rush Limbaugh.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 10:32 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Do state politicians have principles? To some cynical academics and activists, the only way this question can have an affirmative answer is to define the term the way comedian Groucho Marx famously did: "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others."
Published: Monday, June 13th, 2016 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If we want North Carolina to grow and develop robustly, we have to raise taxes and use the money to "invest" in education, Medicaid, infrastructure, and other public services
Published: Sunday, May 22nd, 2016 @ 4:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a lot of cinematography lately that has Americans eagerly dishing out their hard earned cash just to be entertained for 120 minutes.
Published: Saturday, April 30th, 2016 @ 10:17 am
By: Rod Eccles
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After a glorious Easter we took a few days of vacation, turned off the television, unplugged (mostly) the Internet and cell phone and got away to more peaceful environs.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Think politics has taken a nasty turn? You're certainly not alone. Too many politicians and activists resort too often to personal insults and the character assassination of their adversaries rather than crafting, articulating, and defending a substantive agenda for addressing difficult issues...
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 10:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This is the simple truth of any well functioning republic.
Published: Saturday, April 25th, 2015 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Here is the story in NC where we are being constantly told "Conservatives are saving taxpayers money and lowering taxes."
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 4:48 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Politicians love to use their power to dole out favors and privileges to politically-connected special interests. They also love to interfere with the economy, attempting to impose their preferences upon investors and consumers through a hodgepodge of taxpayer handouts and targeted tax breaks.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 5:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Pretty much as soon as the polls closed on Election Day 2014, the political prognosticators began laying bets on what will happen by Election Day 2016. At the national level, attention quickly focused on the seemingly endless parade of Republicans seeking to take on Hillary Clinton.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During a recent 24-hour period, the state of North Carolina, invoking the infinite wisdom of politicians and bureaucrats, announced plans to subsidize investments of several favored biotech and pharmaceutical firms while at the same time denying the right of a Wilmington clinic to....
Published: Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 @ 8:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you've read Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist or seen the musical derived from it, Oliver!, you immediately recognize the name. Fagin is the rogue who takes in orphans and runaways, trains them to pick pockets and swindle marks, and then distributes the proceeds between himself and stre
Published: Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 @ 12:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Whether your team won or lost a good friend put this week's elections in proper perspective.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:44 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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One of the cheapest shots in politics is to claim that only the unschooled and ignorant could possibly side with the other team. Both Democrats and Republicans make the claim about the other party. Democrats ridicule Republican-leaning voters for being dumb rednecks and undereducated boobs...
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 4:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When politicians admit they don't know something, that makes me respect them more. Admitted ignorance is a sign of maturity, of a willingness to learn. It can be remedied with facts. What really does grave damage is when politicians think they know something and act on it - even when...
Published: Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 @ 3:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When it comes to higher education, most politicians are cheerleaders. They're content to speak the usual pieties about the importance of college and never do anything that could upset the status quo.
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 4:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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"I am hurt," says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. "A plague o' both your houses!" In popular remembrance, we actually invest the Bard's line with even more poetic force by substituting a different word when wishing...
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 6:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Left-wing politicians, activists, and ideologues are desperate to stop and reverse North Carolina's free-market renaissance. They aspire to unseat conservative leaders, invalidate conservative ideas, and repeal conservative reforms.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 10:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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If there was a national prize for rhetorical incoherence, one could find several excellent nominations among the ranks of North Carolina politicians and political commentators.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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They say that time flies when you are having fun. And so it has been with my relationship with the Beaufort Observer. It has been interesting; it has been positive; and it has been enjoyable.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 11:15 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Considering the extent of how deeply the Golden Leaf Foundation is interwoven into the social and political fabric of some policy makers in North Carolina and local county governments.
Published: Friday, April 26th, 2013 @ 12:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For a group of people who claim to believe in empirical study and higher learning, liberal politicians and other critics of North Carolina's new...
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 8:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., filibustered in March, the old-fashioned way, talking for approximately 13 hours and questioning whether the president had the constitutional...
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new poll by the Civitas Institute examined North Carolina voters' views of state and national leaders.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2013 @ 9:15 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Some Triangle politicians continue to push for a new taxpayer-funded regional passenger rail system. Adrian Moore, vice president for policy at the Reason Foundation, says passenger rail makes no sense for most American communities, including North Carolina's Triangle region.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For months, North Carolina politicians, lobbyists, policy analysts, and journalists have been buzzing about the possibility that fundamental tax reform might top the state agenda in the coming year.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's about time for New Year's resolutions. My recommendation for North Carolina politicians of all stripes is to resolve to focus their attention, rhetoric, and legislation on reducing the ranks of the unemployed.
Published: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 @ 7:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are real-live North Carolinians, people in positions of authority or influence, who believe you can stimulate economic growth by paying people not to work.
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2012 @ 12:58 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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Question for Mitt Romney: When you worked at Bain did the company do your taxes or did you take your W-2s, 1099s and whatever other "tax" documents you received to a CPA who prepared your taxes??
Published: Sunday, August 19th, 2012 @ 8:31 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Journalism is supposed to share more than one side of a story. I learned during my time at Carolina Journal how refreshing that approach can be for readers, sources, even the writer.
Published: Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 @ 3:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Every time something even remotely contentious rear it's ugly head, we hear politicians, both pro and con, spinning the facts to ensure that anyone who hears whatever it is, gets the "true" story.
Published: Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 @ 12:13 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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