On November 6, an amendment to the North Carolina constitution requiring voters to present a photo identification for voting in person (the "Voter ID" amendment) passed with 55 percent support.
Published: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 @ 12:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Complacency Puts N.C. Charter School Movement At Risk
Published: Saturday, December 30th, 2017 @ 1:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the election of Republican legislative majorities in 2010, charter schools have enjoyed a winning streak of pro-charter legislation and policy
Published: Friday, November 24th, 2017 @ 2:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Everyone seems to be talking about fake news these days. Enabled by social media, its originators deal in hoaxes and disinformation
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 @ 9:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt presidential president this country has ever had the terror of going up against. It really is the U.S. Vs Hillary, and everything is at stake.
Published: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 @ 9:19 pm
By: Pat Riot
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The Following is part of an article series sent by incumbent Governor McCrory following Gubernatorial Debate on October 18 with Roy Cooper
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2016 @ 3:48 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The Following is part of an article series sent by incumbent Governor McCrory following Gubernatorial Debate on October 11 with Roy Cooper
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 @ 12:37 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Prominent Raleigh attorney and former investigator for the Watergate Committee Gene Boyce is featured in Pat McCrory's latest TV ad taking Roy Cooper to task for lying about Pat McCrory and using many of the same dirty campaign tactics he has used in the past to win elections
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 8:29 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Many have often accused the Democrats of buying votes by giving away money. But if you examine the political landscape closely you will see that both Democrats and Republicans do the same think in an effort to influence voters.
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2016 @ 6:57 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Following Hillary Clinton's press conference this afternoon where she once again contradicted FBI Director James Comey's statements regarding her email scandal, the Burr campaign calls on Deborah Ross to state whether she believes Hillary Clinton has misled the American people in her public statemen
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2016 @ 11:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After Roy Cooper announced he will roll out the red carpet for Hillary Clinton and President Obama next week when they visit North Carolina, McCrory Campaign Spokesman Ricky Diaz slammed Cooper for siding with Washington, D.C. over hardworking North Carolina families
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2016 @ 10:56 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina Attorney General should reimburse taxpayers for not doing his job or resign, the McCrory campaign said Friday.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2016 @ 6:38 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor McCrory fact checks related to the Gubernatorial Debate
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2016 @ 4:04 am
By: McCrory Communications
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In a rare interview with the Henderson Daily Dispatch Friday, Attorney General Roy Cooper endorsed the tactics of activist groups like the Human Rights Commission and the A.C.L.U. and encouraged further boycotts against the state and continued economic retaliation against the hardworking people...
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Today, The Pat McCrory Committee released a new web ad contrasting recent positive economic news under Governor McCrory with Roy Cooper's high-tax, big government and job-killing agenda
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 @ 7:49 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Economics & Environment Update: Time to get serious about capital gains, the next step in tax reformLast week I discussed and endorsed the idea that, instead of trying to create a consumption tax by abolishing the income tax and reforming the sales tax, North Carolina should instead use the existing apparatus of the income tax to accomplish that same goal.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Center For American Progress recently released a so-called "study" pegging the economic losses facing North Carolina over its bathroom privacy law at over half a billion dollars.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2016 @ 12:21 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Maybe it was a Freudian slip? During a recent appearance at an event hosted by the N.C. Chamber of Commerce, Roy Cooper praised North Carolina's economy under Governor McCrory, admitting that North Carolina is the best state in the country for business and the state is now in a good position for fut
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 @ 5:52 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Politifact wants us to repeat after them: Republicans lie. Democrats tell truth.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2016 @ 9:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's interesting that Gov. McCrory is taking heat for the passage of the so-called "bathroom bill." He was opposed to the idea of a special session.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 @ 1:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Full disclosure: I don't have a "favorite" candidate in the current presidential contest
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Higher education is often an ignored issue in presidential campaigns. The 2016 campaign, however, may be different.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 12:52 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Nothing undercuts the enjoyment of watching football (Go Steelers!) on a Sunday afternoon more than tiresome political ads, particularly those pro-Kay Hagan ads that employ "political sleight of hand" to substantiate claims of funding cuts to public education in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radios are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation. Or they attack with a sensational
Published: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radio are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 10:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just before Labor Day, the publicly available polls of likely voters had incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan roughly tied with her Republican challenger, Thom Tillis. Since Labor Day, the polling average has shifted about three points in Hagan's direction.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the U.S. Senate, Kay Hagan has voted for President Obama's liberal agenda a staggering 95 percent of the time, which includes casting the deciding vote for ObamaCare.
Published: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 @ 8:55 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Gunga Din was immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in literature -- and later in movies. He was a poor, hapless, shuffling, kowtowing, water-carrying man-servant to some British soldiers in India.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2013 @ 11:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The US republic is unique. Government can pass no law or take no action unless the authority for such law or action is specifically granted in the Constitution.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 12:51 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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We hear a lot from the Obama administration and the Democratic Party about who in America is disenfranchised. And according to them, it certainly isn't the American taxpayer.
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 @ 1:09 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A lot of folks keep accusing our chief community organizer of not being much of a manager; after all, he really never had much (if any) exposure to management prior to getting himself elected president.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2011 @ 10:08 am
By: Jim Bispo
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