The Federalist Society at Campbell University Law School in Raleigh invited an advocate and a critic to debate the merits of the health-care reform proposals under discussion now in Washington, D.C. Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute and Adam Searing of the N.C. Justice Center approached health-care reform from different perspectives during the Oct. 14,...
Paul Paolicelli, author of the nonfiction books Dances With Luigi and Under the Southern Sun, discusses the strong response to his books, which relate stories that link Italians and Americans of Italian descent. Paolicelli delivered these remarks during a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society October 12, 2009. To watch full-length presentations of...
The John Locke Foundation’s N.C. History Project and the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law co-host a State of Our Constitution Series forum on education. Attorney Bill Graham moderates an Oct. 8, 2009, discussion at Catawba College in Salisbury. The expert panelists are Wake Forest University political scientist John Dinan, JLF education policy analyst Terry Stoops,...
Jenna Ashley Robinson, campus outreach coordinator for the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, outlines problems associated with the college loan “racket.” Robinson offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 333).
North Carolinians add their voices to those of nearly 2,000 people who rallied outside the U.S. Capitol October 2, 2009. The Americans for Prosperity rally highlighted concerns about federal health-care reform proposals in Congress. Speakers included AFP leaders, patients, and two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including N.C. Republican Patrick McHenry. After the...
Nearly 2,000 members of Americans for Prosperity, including more than 400 from North Carolina, rallied outside the U.S. Capitol October 2, 2009. They were sending a message to Congress: “Hands Off My Health Care.” Speakers in this full-length video of the 35-minute rally include AFP national and state leaders, patients concerned about health-care proposals circulating...
John Locke Foundation Vice President Becki Gray and Fiscal and Health Care Policy Analyst Joseph Coletti discuss health-care reform with Bob Buckley for a WGHP report September 21, 2009.
Paige Holland Hamp of Embrace Uganda discusses growing support for the two-year-old organization. Hamp delivered these remarks during a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society September 14, 2009. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
More than 200 people gathered for the Civitas Institute’s fourth annual N.C. Conservative Leadership Conference September 11-12, 2009, in Raleigh. This video clip includes highlights from featured speakers: Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California USA who made headlines by expressing her support for a traditional definition of marriage; Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform,...
Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, discusses his group’s Putting Parents in Charge tour, scheduled Sept. 14-16, 2009, in Raleigh, Asheville, and Charlotte.
More than 1,000 people joined Americans for Prosperity North Carolina at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh to discuss President Obama’s heath-care address to a joint session of Congress. This video contains the opening hour of the September 9, 2009, program.
