Over the weekend, I was privileged to be in attendance at the John Locke Foundation’s Carolina Liberty Conference. Among the highlights of the weekend (which included recording an episode of our weekly show “The Debrief” in the hotel lobby) was a media panel, hosted by Carolina Journal editor-in-chief Donna King, discussing the current state of...
History is full of examples of governments generating both benefits and costs for their citizens that no one intended – or even could have intended.
“I just knew some nice person would find my ring, I just did not know it would be you."
It does not minimize the staggering toll of what we are experiencing to point out that America in 2020 is in some key ways a better place than it was a generation or two ago.
RALEIGH — Andy Ellen, president and general counsel of the North Carolina Retail Merchants Association, said a plastic bag tax would be “an unconstitutional regulation of trade and commerce in violation of the North Carolina Constitution,” and might lead to “potential litigation” if the city attempts to enact the measure.
RALEIGH — A website links the Wake County NCAE to what is called a “walk-in” on Nov. 4. Moreover, the website of Guilford County Schools also urges supports of a Nov. 4 walk-in at GCS. The walk-in — urging higher pay for teachers and higher spending on public schools — was to take place before and after the school day Monday, or in some cases, during the school day Monday morning.
The mainstream news media actually have a greater audience than ever before in their history. The problem isn’t drawing eyeballs. It’s drawing revenue.
History is full of examples of governments generating both benefits and costs for their citizens that no one intended – or even could have intended.
Differences in definitions, variables, and study design help to explain why academic studies conducted by honest, ethical scholars often reach different conclusions.
The community of public-policy groups – Right, Left, Center, and unclassifiable – is a fundamentally different place than it was just five years ago, largely because of the web.
RALEIGH — What was it that made Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin go to the well of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday evening and beg for forgiveness? Fear was in his eyes along with tears as he professed to love and cherish the very American servicemen that he slandered on June 14 at that very same podium.
