North Carolina has accepted 59 Syrian refugees, and as many as 270 others are expected to be relocated throughout the state, according to Gov. Pat McCrory's office. The governor's office updated the information Monday, three days after it responded to an open-records request from Carolina Journal...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Democrats' victory, and Republican Ryan's defeat, was garishly displayed when his omnibus got more Democratic votes in the House and in the Senate than it got Republican votes.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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There is a great amount of rhetoric floating around over the Syrian Refugees due to the terrorist attacks in Paris last week.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 5:06 am
By: Rod Eccles
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It's $1.1 trillion dollars. It's 2009 pages. It was written by FOUR lawmakers and a bunch of lobbyists.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:34 am
By: Brant Clifton
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DC-Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is calling for Congress to block funds for the Obama administration's massive Middle Eastern refugee resettlement program when Congress appropriates money for the Boehner-Obama debt deal before the end of the year...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 3:49 am
By: Chris Downey
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Expressing disappointment in President Obama's threat to veto his bill requiring a more thorough screening process of refugees from Syria and Iraq, U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8th District, said Thursday he hopes the measure gets the same veto-proof support in the Senate it received in the House.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 2:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Late Monday, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat, announced that Cooper would not file a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit filed by a transgender student in Virginia, challenging the school district's refusal to let the student use public bathrooms assigned to students....
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week's horrific terrorist attack in Paris seems to be causing changes in the way policymakers think about the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and, one way or another, those changes are likely to have an impact here in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This past week, 14 years later we, as a nation, took pause to remember September 11, 2001.
Published: Monday, October 5th, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: Rod Eccles
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