It’s hard to justify a national emergency based on a 50-year fact of American economic life.
Lawyers from the state Department of Justice urge North Carolina’s highest court to reject a legal challenge to the state’s certificate-of-need law. The high court agreed last year to hear a New Bern eye surgeon’s lawsuit targeting CON restrictions.
The John Locke Foundation is supporting a New Bern eye surgeon’s legal fight against state regulations that block him from performing procedures in his own building. The state Supreme Court has agreed to take up Dr. Jay Singleton’s case against North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law in the months ahead.
RALEIGH — Ask a conservative to list his political heroes, and you are likely to hear names such as Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and William F. Buckley. Those looking further back in time might list Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Fewer people are likely to mention Nathaniel Macon or Josiah Bailey, unless they have read the latest book from Raleigh author Garland Tucker. Tucker, chairman and chief executive officer of Triangle Capital Corporation, profiles important figures from American history in the book Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America, From Jefferson to Reagan. Tucker discussed the book with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Ask a conservative to compile a top list of American political heroes, and you’ll not be surprised to see names such as Thomas Jefferson, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan. The names Nathaniel Macon, Josiah Bailey, and John W. Davis might seem less obvious. But all six men are profiled in a Raleigh author’s latest book, Conservative Heroes, the topic for the John Locke Foundation’s Monday Shaftesbury Society luncheon.
RALEIGH — Conservative icons such as Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and Milton Friedman would have appreciated some of the North Carolina General Assembly’s key accomplishments in 2013. That’s the assessment of John Locke Foundation President John Hood, who discussed the issue with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — The five Republicans running for state auditor say incumbent Democrat Beth Wood has been weak in rooting out waste, fraud, and inefficiency in state government. Lack of transparency, selective auditing, and inefficient use of staff resources plague the office, they say.
RALEIGH — There’s an old saying: the pen is mightier than the sword. Whether that’s true or not, the written word can be powerful. It’s a theme American Spectator publisher Al Regnery highlighted during a presentation at the 2009 Civitas Conservative Leadership Conference in Raleigh. After noting some highlights from the speech, you’ll read Regnery’s conversation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — It’s no secret conservatives have taken a beating in recent elections. With the recent defection of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter from the Republican Party to the Democrats, some pundits wonder whether the GOP is on the road to oblivion. Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of National Review and columnist for TIME, recently discussed the future of conservatism in a presentation for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. He also discussed that topic with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Donald Critchlow, professor of history at Saint Louis University, recently addressed a John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon. He also discussed his book, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History, with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio. (Click here to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
RALEIGH — Welcome to Carolina Journal Online’s Friday Interview. Today the John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai discusses conservatism with Weekly Standard editor and Fox News commentator Bill Kristol. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
