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Friday Interview: Obamacare and Religious Liberty

RALEIGH — The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled recently that an Oklahoma City-based company, Hobby Lobby, could proceed with a lawsuit challenging a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate linked to Obamacare. The mandate requires companies to provide insurance covering birth control. Hobby Lobby’s owners contend the mandate violates their religious liberty. Months before appellate judges handed down their decision, the John Locke Foundation and Federalist Society listened to a presentation on Obamacare and religious liberty from Eric Kniffin, legal counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which has worked with Hobby Lobby. Kniffin discussed the health care law’s impact on religious liberty with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Friday Interview: The Negative Impact of Health Care Mandates

RALEIGH — Much of the debate about the 2010 federal health care reform law involved the so-called “individual mandate,” the notion that the government could force everyone to buy health insurance. But that’s not the only troubling mandate tied to health insurance. Stephan Gohmann, BB&T professor of free enterprise at the University of Louisville, discussed health care mandates during a 2012 speech at Campbell University. Gohmann shared themes from that speech with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Friday Interview: ObamaCare Earns Poor Marks in First Year

RALEIGH — Advocates of free markets and limited government raised red flags before Congress approved federal health care legislation last year. Now that the ObamaCare legislation has been in place for a year, critics continue to question its value. Sally Pipes is president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of multiple books on the American health care system, including The Truth about ObamaCare. Pipes discussed the legislation’s impact with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Friday Interview: New General Assembly Will Face Tax-Hike Pressure

RALEIGH — Whichever political party controls the N.C. General Assembly, lobbyists for special interests often pressure lawmakers to raise taxes. That will be true in 2011, as Republicans take control of the state Legislative Building. John Locke Foundation President John Hood discussed the topic with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Friday Interview: Alcoa Dam Controversy

RALEIGH — Property rights advocates are on alert over efforts by lawmakers to pass legislation that would give the state control over Alcoa’s Yadkin river dams and hydroelectric facilities. The effort failed in the General Assembly this summer, but the state’s push to gain control will continue, according to the governor’s office. Rick Henderson, managing editor of Carolina Journal, discussed the controversy with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Friday Interview: The Tire Incentives

RALEIGH — Today, Carolina Journal Radio’s Mitch Kokai discusses with Dean Webster, executive director of NC Institute for Constitutional Law, the legislature’s approval of targeted tax incentives packages for Goodyear and Bridgestone/Firestone. (Go to http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)

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Friday Interview: Marlo Lewis on Al Gore

RALEIGH — Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, recently addressed a John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon in Asheville. He also discussed his “Skeptical Tour of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth” with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio. (Go to http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)

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Friday Interview: Climate-Change Commission

RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation’s Donna Martinez recently discussed the work of the North Carolina Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change with Roy Cordato, the John Locke Foundation’s vice president for research, who has been following the commission’s work very closely. (Go to http://carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)

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