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Judge exposes activist group’s dubious legal tactic
Diverting resources to oppose a government policy doesn't create a legal "injury."
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‘Making the Grade’ says NC among worst in ‘fair school funding.’ But data fails to convince.
North Carolina public schools are some of the worst-funded schools in the country and will need more money to adequately and fairly fund our schools in the future. That’s the conclusion of a well-publicized recent study from the Education Law Center — a study that is frequently referenced by progressive teacher groups, Democrat politicians, and others...
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Walls closing in
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We’re sliding towards single payer
North Carolina is about to become the 40th state to expand its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. The bill drew huge, bipartisan majorities of legislators. Republican leaders resisted expansion for years, arguing that the promise of permanent 90% funding from Washington was either implausible or fiscally irresponsible. They no longer feel that way....
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NC faces challenges from China. Congress needs to help.
It’s no secret that the competition between the United States and China is heating up. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in a position today to challenge the U.S. diplomatically, militarily, and economically across the globe. This challenge presents an existential threat to the American-led international order and is already set to define the 21st...
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Biden’s budget madness
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Outrageous story of the week: Rationalia returns
In 2016, popular physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson set the internet on fire with a single tweet: He was raked over the coals for days, weeks, for suggesting that a country could be ruled by scientists and their “factual” proclamations. Tyson even expounded further on the idea in a video, where he said that because people...
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We don’t need a divorce. We need federalism
The recently rehabilitated Marjorie Taylor Greene and a few other fringy figures have floated the idea of a national dissolution, or divorce, with Republicans and Democrats ensconced within their own national boundaries. While we are manifestly a divided nation, such a separation is impractical for many reasons, including the necessity of an integrated national defense. And...
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Book bans are dangerous. Curating age-appropriate school material is not.
Book bans have been a real problem in history, typically by totalitarian governments — whether Marxist, fascist, theocratic, or otherwise. But parents who don’t want their young children given explicit tutorials on how to practice the latest sexual fads are not Robespierres in training. They just want the bare minimum of decency and common sense...
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A parent’s job
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Why data privacy is a top issue for NC small businesses in 2023
National Data Privacy Week came and went in January. Although most people don’t mark it on their calendars or celebrate it, data privacy is a critically important issue, and how it is regulated greatly matters to businesses. Unfortunately, the federal government has been stifled for several years in enacting a single national privacy standard that...
