Our country is, no doubt, in a horrible mess - an embarrassment to the world and on the verge of destroying the very goodness, principles, and freedom that we had been founded on.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2021 @ 11:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After finishing the preseason with an exhibition victory, the ECU women's soccer team will get the season underway on Thursday evening when the Pirates host George Mason.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 3:00 pm
By: ECU Sports
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One subject that economists are in greatest agreement over is the negative unintended consequences of the minimum wage
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 7:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hospital patients die at higher rates from some common maladies in states that require providers to obtain a certificate of need for certain medical services, a new study concluded
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2016 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I recently had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 6:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though North Carolina ranks behind its four neighboring states in overall financial condition, the state’s fiscal health is mostly sound, said the author of a just-released national study.
Published: Friday, July 10th, 2015 @ 7:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has fewer hospital beds and MRI scanners than other states, and restrains psychiatric services because of a regulatory process that protects legacy health care providers
Published: Monday, February 23rd, 2015 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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F.H. Buckley, a law professor at George Mason University, recently has published a timely and comparative study: The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America. In it, Buckley compares and examines past and current political systems in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Raleigh, the McCrory Department of Commerce is doing quite a bit of cheerleading for special taxpayer-provided incentives to lure business to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, May 26th, 2014 @ 8:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Until about five years ago, few people said much about America's federal student loan system. There was no talk of a "crisis," and discussions about change were pretty much limited to tinkering around the edges.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 1:48 am
By: John William Pope Center
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My facility with math is due to good teaching and good textbooks. I fully expected the same for my daughter, but after seeing what passed for mathematics in her elementary school, I became increasingly distressed over how math is currently taught in many schools.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2013 @ 6:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Regulation imposes significant costs on the economy through deadweight loss - i.e., labor and capital employed in complying with government edicts and red tape, as opposed to being used for productive purposes.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 @ 9:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators can take one of the most effective steps toward fighting overregulation in North Carolina by setting expiration dates for state rules. Support for end dates -- or sunsetting -- is one of the key findings in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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December 15 was Bill of Rights Day. It marks the 221st anniversary of the day when the first ten amendments - our Bill of Rights - were ratified in 1791.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 10:47 am
By: Diane Rufino
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There's a great deal of magic incantation in traditional fantasy literature, of course. Think of the Evil Queen consulting her spellbook to transform her appearance and concoct her poison apple for Snow White.
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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