Yesterday, ace Carolina Journal reporter Dan Way brought a fascinating yet frightening UNESCO email to my attention. The organization announced a new campaign that calls on teachers "to become advocates for education to help lobby for progress toward achieving the new sustainable development agenda.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 3:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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According to recent reports, the federal government administers 126 separate programs directed at low-income households. Many of these programs are administered in partnership with state governments, while state and local governments provide still more separate programs. Spending on these...
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 2:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One issue that gets North Carolinian blood boiling is the former Center for Work, Poverty, and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's law school. To conservatives it is a symbol of the left's abuse of its dominance of academia, in which a Democratic politician...
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 5:31 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The reopening of UNC–Chapel Hill Law School’s Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity as the “North Carolina Poverty Research Fund” by law professor Gene Nichol shows great contempt for the UNC system Board of Governors, the state legislature, and the people of North Carolina.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 6:08 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A good and wise minister friend of mine sent me a most insightful article concerning the situation in Baltimore.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 @ 2:36 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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On Feb. 27, the UNC Board of Governors voted to close the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at its Chapel Hill campus. Many on the left and faculty within the UNC system argued the board's decision was political and an attack on academic freedom.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Suppose there was an academic center focused on issues of poverty, work, and opportunity. Suppose this center pledged to "examine innovative and practical ideas" for moving people out of poverty. Suppose its leadership was interested not in raising their own profiles, but in honestly upholding...
Published: Sunday, March 29th, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v Burwell, where the plaintiffs are not seeking to challenge Obamacare, but for the federal health law to operate as written.
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2015 @ 5:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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You’ve heard the spin the media, the progressives and the professors have put on the closing of the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, but let’s step back and look at what this is and isn’t about.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 10:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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If the recent review of campus-based centers by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors was all an elaborate ruse to silence a critic of state Republicans, it would probably qualify as the most improbable, elaborate, and ineffective conspiracy in North Carolina history.
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 11:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's particularly disgusting to see our state's drive-by media try to compare the UNC Board of Governors' decision to shut down a scam on the Chapel Hill campus to McCarthyism or the state's one-time speaker ban.
Published: Tuesday, February 24th, 2015 @ 12:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Today North Carolina released A-F grades for all traditional public and charter schools. News outlets have been all over the story and pundits are angling to put a spin on what is expected to be a tough day for many schools.
Published: Saturday, February 21st, 2015 @ 9:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In a draft report released this week, the working group of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has completed its review of the 240 research centers scattered among the system campuses. It recommends further review of only 13 and closure of just three.
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have often wondered why Race is such a large issue in these times. Many of us, who lived through the sixties and were well aware of the events of those turbulent days, have well considered why Race is such a dominant force for those who are interminably imbued with the subject.
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 @ 11:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler: Why do those who seem most adamant that government programs are the best way to serve the needs of the poor also seem the least interested in whether those programs actually work?
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 8:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler. Why do those who seem most adamant that government programs are the best way to serve the needs of the poor also seem the least interested in whether those programs actually work?
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2014 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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George Gilder doesn't quote the Bard in his latest book, but one could picture him as Hamlet to his reader's Horatio, pointing out: "There are more things in heaven and earth ... than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 11:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On the corner of South Elm Street and Lee Street on the south side of downtown Greensboro lies a seven-acre empty lot.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 12:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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"Gloom, despair, and agony on me," sang the corn-pone troubadours of "Hee Haw," TV's long-running variety show. "Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me."
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Newspapers, activists and all who care about open government recently celebrated "Sunshine Week." Now it's time for North Carolina conservatives to make 2014 Sunshine Year.
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 8:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When I took the job as a movie theater cashier, I had no idea my first excursion into the working world would deliver such valuable life lessons. I learned it's not a good idea to work for someone who tells you to protect the cash register at all costs and hands you a baseball bat to fend off robber
Published: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A public records request filed by the Civitas Institute confirms that the UNC Poverty Center continues to use publicly funded resources for blatantly political activities in ways that are inappropriate, violate UNC policies, and possibly illegal.
Published: Thursday, March 6th, 2014 @ 11:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Having authored more than one optimist's lament in recent years, I am clearly of the opinion that, generally speaking, things are better than they seem - and getting better all the time.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer and Notre Dame economist James Sullivan are correct, much of the recent political chatter about the 50 anniversary of the War on Poverty was little more than uninformed nonsense.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In North Carolina, most news coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, has focused on the massive technical failures of the federal exchange website.
Published: Monday, January 20th, 2014 @ 8:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I think it was Albert Einstein who once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2014 @ 8:09 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Ideas that look desirable or at least workable on paper can prove to be unworkable or even disastrous when applied to the real world. Just ask the millions of Americans who, under Obamacare, have lost health plans they liked, been forced to buy more-expensive plans they don't much like, or began...
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 1:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the old saying goes, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." But some North Carolina professors have decided that they are neither goose nor gander.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Madam Chair, Ranking Member Hinojosa, and Distinguished Members of this committee, thank you for this opportunity. The Pell grant program faces two serious problems today: its increasing cost to the taxpayer, and its failure to serve students well. The program is too expensive and too few...
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Nor can the fault be laid solely at the feet of George W. Bush, or North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, or former governors Bev Perdue and Mike Easley.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2013 @ 6:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics of the state's decision to shun Medicaid expansion have maintained that a study by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine concludes that 500,000 people would be left...
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2013 @ 5:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Chapel Hill is known mainly for two things: (1) Great basketball and (2) loony-tunes lefty nuttiness. Basketball is down a little bit this year.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 3:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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