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North Carolina Flunks Science
North Carolina is poised to replace its wasteful auto emission tests with an even more costly system — and one that will ignore those most responsible for our (modest) pollution problem.
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Celebrating the Lucky 13th
Tonight's the night to join the Locke Foundation for its 13th anniversary celebration. A preview of what we'll say -- and what's coming next from your free-market, limited-government think tank.
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Meanwhile, free expression at NC State is ‘too much’
Chancellor Marye Anne Fox of North Carolina State University issued a statement on tolerance this week. Published in Technician, N.C. State's official student newspaper, Fox wrote that "Several students have told me about highly offensive, hurtful and disrespectful graffiti that appeared on the wall of our Free Expression Tunnel on Monday night." Three sentences later she wrote, "The offensive graffiti has been removed, and I have asked our Campus Police to investigate this incident."
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Multi-Headed Legislative Hydra
Like the creature of Greek mythology, state legislative committees keep sprouting new heads. The big picture suggests that Democrats will retain their policymaking dominance in Raleigh.
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Insist on Freedom
A penetrating analysis compares the State Department’s plans for a post-war Iraq with the Defense Department’s. Guess which one is more militaristic — and wrong.
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An Alcoholic Blackout
Sen. Howard Lee pushed through the welcome creation of a study commission to look at NC’s incoherent alcohol-control laws. Now he, and the commission, are out of (legislative) business.
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It’s the Constitution Stupid
The new NC chapter of the Institute for Justice is already making a splash with its first case, which seeks to restore constitutional principles that limit how tax dollars can properly be spent.
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No. 114: Economic Sentiments: Was Adam Smith a Liberal?
There is a burgeoning movement afoot to redefine Adam Smith as a “liberal” of the contemporary, progressive sort, rather than as the icon of classical liberalism he is standardly taken to be. It has never been a secret that Smith was not an anarchist, nor even, probably, a monarchist.
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No. 651: Efficiency Commission Lights the Path Out of Deficit Spending
North Carolina could save hundreds of millions of dollars by following an efficiency commission's logical advice.
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No. 652: Georgia on My Mind: N.C. Universities Should Guarantee Teachers
North Carolina's universities should follow the example of Georgia, which guarantees the quality of its teaching graduates.
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No. 653: What Are Government’s Proper Roles? Let’s Connect the Dots
We must have a clear understanding of the components of debate before we determine the proper roles of government.
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Defense of free expression and inquiry at UNC-CH not thorough enough
"I have been proud," announced Chancellor James Moeser of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in his "State of the University" speech this past September, "to speak for the entire community in defending our fundamental rights as Americans from any who would seek to limit the scope of free expression and inquiry. In the past 12 months, UNC has shown the world what it is to be a great, free, American public university."
