Since the federal government feeds students in K-12 schools via the National School Lunch Program, it should similarly feed college students who are "food insecure,"
Published: Sunday, May 22nd, 2016 @ 5:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Surprise, Surprise, Surprise
Published: Sunday, May 1st, 2016 @ 1:45 am
By: Bobby Tony
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There has been a firestorm about the FBI request for Apple to break the IPhone of the San Bernardino terrorist's.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 2:31 am
By: Bobby Tony
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At the Pope Center we spend a lot of time recommending changes to higher education policy. It's in our name. But there are ways you-as a citizen, parent, student, or employer-can pressure higher education to change.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Arguably, the Clintons are the most Capitalistic couple who have ever been in the White House, tax free foundations
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 2:19 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Politicians are usually eager to be generous with the money taken from taxpayers, especially when it helps them gain favor with some interest group
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The frustration with the failure of Congress to tackle immigration reform has prompted some observers to suggest that states look north for inspiration.
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2015 @ 9:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We're not big fans of The Politico around here. In fact, we affectionately refer to it in-house as The PoS-tico.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 @ 8:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Old Stories from the Bible tell great TRUTHS. Do you remember Lot going to the big cities of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 11:44 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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The fine article from my friend, Bobby Tony, deserves some observations. In some respects I totally agree. On others I total disagree. Several other need illustrating . . .
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 4:53 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Economic Concept Of Crowding Out Explains How Government Money To Planned Parenthood Funds AbortionsRegardless of how one feels about abortion or Planned Parenthood generally, this article by Manhattan Institute economist Preston Cooper explains why it makes no sense to argue that government funding of Planned Parenthood is not subsidizing abortions. Cooper invokes the economic concept of...
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 12:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nothing is more fun for an aging tinkerer than to have something break down in his house.
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 3:32 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Symbols will offend some but labels really irritate the hell out of others
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 5:50 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The cliché is that conservatives are stuck in the past, but the truth is that our ideas provide the best way to move into an increasingly turbulent future.
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 3:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A description of a kid's first job and first time filing taxes.
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2015 @ 3:36 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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This holiday used to be a day to do something special for the one you love — today it is a moneymaking event for retailers and the government alike. The National Retail Federation hosts an annual Valentine's Day Survey that focuses on what people will spend their money on for the holiday...
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 11:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It added to our already out-of-control federal debt. It’s fully funded ObamaCare and amnesty.
Published: Monday, December 15th, 2014 @ 9:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Question: What do you get when you hold your nose while voting? Answer: Pretty much the same damn thing you would have gotten from the guys and gals you voted against.
Published: Friday, December 5th, 2014 @ 11:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Universities might not be as safe as they seem. John William Pope Center researches the on-going issue.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 @ 9:43 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Ever since the obstreperous Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, Americans have been getting an earful about the alleged crisis of student loan debt.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 12:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Fidel Castro freed Cuba from the greedy clutches of U.S. robber barons and mobsters and rewarded his downtrodden countrymen with free health care and education.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 5:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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People keep talking about the high burden of college debt, which now surpasses credit card debt. And the federal government is doing something to help.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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By the looks of it, the individual mandate is almost devoid of life. This tax was once viewed as the centerpiece of the federal health law. Without this critical element of government coercion, Obamacare could not work to its full capacity.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've been busy with final Christmas preparations, so here's a piece from a couple of Christmases ago that I hope will give you a chuckle. Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas.
Published: Monday, December 23rd, 2013 @ 11:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most North Carolinians are painfully aware of how grim the ongoing recession has been for our state. However, few know about our oppressive Third World debt owed to the federal government for money borrowed to pay benefits to unemployed workers.
Published: Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Have the Republicans lost their minds by rejecting Medicaid expansion? "Yes" is the answer, according to liberal Democrats and their allied editorial writers across the state.
Published: Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Born in 1725 in the town of Bath, Samuel Ashe was the second son of John Baptiste Ashe and Elizabeth Swann.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 11:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats won't touch that arena because they know that most gun crimes are in cities with the toughest gun control laws.
Published: Sunday, February 10th, 2013 @ 3:57 am
By: Alicia Colon
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espite the traditional praise of "melting pots," "big tents" and "rainbow coalitions" the strategy behind our country's election process is to activate the ethnic, racial and social differences that exist among its people.
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 @ 10:15 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) David Watford Spivey, III, a resident of 607 Bank Street, Washington Park, Washington, N.C., died Thursday, October 4, 2012 at his home
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2012 @ 3:10 pm
By: Announcements
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This article follows the one I previously wrote, entitled "Who is Really Disenfranchised?" In that article I talked about the incessant claims of "disenfranchisement" of minority voters when no such disenfranchisement exists nor any intent to do so.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2012 @ 8:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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