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NC lawmaker fights student-loan scheme
In the modern era, few policies have been as reckless, lawless, and perverse as Joe Biden’s repeated efforts to transfer student-loan debt to taxpayers.
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Barring candidates from the ballot does not ‘save democracy’
Recently, Democrats filed a bill that would make the Republican candidate for superintendent of public instruction ineligible for the office. What happened to "saving democracy"?
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It’s clear to this former NAACP leader that DEI does more harm than good
Woody White and others in the UNC System are moving to end DEI in the state's public universities. As a former NAACP leader, I believe it's the right move.
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Voters send signal about opposition to targeted tax breaks
Nearly 64% of North Carolinians prefer lowering tax rates and reducing regulatory burdens to improve the state's economy. Just 15% prefer relying on targeted tax incentives.
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Can government make you happy?
Is it the job of government to make you happy? While it may seem like a straightforward question, there are some important subtleties packed into those few words. On the face of it, “no” feels like the obvious answer. The Declaration of Independence states that governments are instituted to secure our rights to “life, liberty,...
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NC can honor Brown v. Board legacy by ending exclusionary school district lines
Friday marked 70 years since the US Supreme Court declared that government-enforced separate public schools for students of different races was unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Yet our public school enrollment boundaries today are often a near-mirror of the redlined housing maps going back to the 1930s and 1940s —...
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Clarifying the case against NCInnovation: A response to Tom Darden
The John Locke Foundation has studied NCInnovation and similar programs in other states to better understand this use of taxpayer money. We are skeptical.
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The predictable media reaction to UNC’s defunding of DEI
The UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees agreed to redirect $2.3 million originally allocated for DEI initiatives towards public safety. This is positive news; although, one wouldn’t know it from reading the mainstream media.
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The truth about pregnancy resource centers
Last year, the North Carolina General Assembly funded a range of life-changing support for vulnerable mothers under the landmark Care for Women, Children, and Families Act. However, everyone wasn’t on board. Abortion advocates in the legislature have not stopped fighting this law that, among other things, boosted assistance to programs reducing maternal mortality, funded pregnancy...
