U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks alongside fellow House Republicans after he was elected as the Republican House speaker nominee during a GOP conference meeting in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on October 24, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 5:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Tennessee lawmakers are looking at rejecting federal dollars for public education and replacing them with state dollars in a move that would make Tennessee the first in the nation to turn down federal education funding.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 8:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Congressman Dan Bishop, R-NC8, was in the spotlight yesterday not only for his opposition to the debt ceiling agreement reached by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden, but also for challenging McCarthy’s capability in his position as speaker.
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 @ 1:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Revolution of the States: Conservative states are more likely than liberal ones to have "open primaries," allowing Democrats to vote in Republican primaries and contributing do deep-red states electing moderate Republicans.
Published: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 1:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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Some Republican-led states, including Tennessee, are joining Democrats in actively resisting school choice policies after dozens of red states have already begun implementing such changes.
Published: Saturday, April 1st, 2023 @ 9:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation unveiled its Clean Transportation Plan Wednesday. They say it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advance “environmental justice,” and create good-paying jobs tied to clean transportation.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 1:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday he plans on releasing thousands of hours of U.S. Capitol riot footage from the surveillance cameras on January 6, 2021.
Published: Saturday, March 18th, 2023 @ 7:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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GOP traitors help Democrats pass key item of their agenda; 23 heroes say NO
Published: Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 @ 9:43 pm
By: John Steed
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CNN’s Jake Tapper grilled Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday about the administration’s controversial handling of the Chinese spy balloon that traversed across the U.S. over the last several days.
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2023 @ 11:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, R-8th District, endorsed a new congressional subcommittee focusing on the "weaponization of the federal government."
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 12:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is bouncing three top Democrats, including one who allegedly had an affair with a Chinese spy and another who pushed the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, from plum committees.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 12:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Many of us were mesmerized in watching some or most of the fifteen votes required to elect a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. I can’t remember which round it was when it hit me that North Carolina has been here before.
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2023 @ 9:54 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Republican House Speaker urges governor to end masks mandates for students
Published: Monday, February 14th, 2022 @ 3:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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My Locke colleague Brian Balfour has noted that Americans voted with their feet in 2021, moving away from higher-tax states to lower-tax states like North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One day after Carolina Journal first broke the news, North Carolina’s westernmost member of the U.S. House, Congressman Madison Cawthorn, confirmed via video in a tweet he will run in a different congressional district than the one he currently represents.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Walker and former Gov. Pat McCrory were seated near the front of the room at Saturday night’s closing convention dinner when the endorsement was made.
Published: Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 @ 10:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Swalwell is a national security timebomb.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 8:59 am
By: LifeZette
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The only thing more worrying than the federal government’s recent announcement that the debt had reached $22 trillion, or 104 percent of GDP, was that it generated such little attention.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 12:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina now has its second voter identification law. A federal court voided the first because it would not consider forms of ID disproportionately used by minorities, such as cards or documents given to government employees, students, and people on public assistance.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 11:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As dysfunctional as Congress has become, it does manage to enact some useful bills
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2018 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, is under no illusion a constitutional amendment to impose legislative term limits will be an easy sell, even though the earliest anyone would be barred from running for re-election is 2035
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In The Peach State there is a concern that Lobbyists are “Influencing” our Legislators. “Influencing” was once called “bribing”.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2017 @ 7:35 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The “conservative revolution” in Raleigh is telling us the state is so cash-poor that it can’t afford some vital road repairs and construction.
Published: Sunday, February 15th, 2015 @ 2:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The federal proposal that the president is calling "America's College Promise" has inspired fanfare and controversy that go beyond President Obama's decision earlier this week not to interfere with so-called 529 savings plans.
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 10:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, R-Wake, is working with charter school operators and advocates on legislation proponents say would restore millions of dollars to charter schools previously stripped away by Democrats "in the dark of night" to benefit traditional public schools.
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two aspects of the 2014 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate contests nationally, Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis of Mecklenburg County knocked off incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan in a race capping a night that saw the GOP seize the majority in the upper chamber, unifying control of Congress.
Published: Thursday, November 6th, 2014 @ 8:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Education is the campaign focus as the North Carolina House District 118 race heads toward the finish line.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 6:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Election watchers suggest that, including outlays from candidates, political parties, and independent expenditure groups, more than $75 million could be spent in this year's U.S. Senate campaign featuring Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis.
Published: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We had all hoped for this campaign to be about punishing Kay Hagan for her cooperation with Barry Obama and Harry Reid in the enactment of ObamaCare and the accompanying destruction of the US economy.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 4:57 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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House Speaker Thom Tillis is under siege. We have been reporting here that we continue to pick up rumors on Jones Street and from Administration operatives that there is a broad and deep resentment growing against Tillis' high-handed method of operating.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 1:31 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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An Old West-style conflict in Texas pits the higher education and political establishments against the reform movement.
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 @ 5:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Rep. Harold Brubaker, the first and only Republican House speaker of the 20th century and most recently the chamber's senior budget-writer, announced Thursday he's retiring from the Legislature.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 2:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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