John Locke Updates: Research Brief

Over the summer, there’s been a lot of media attention focused on the Wake County Register of Deeds office.  I blogged about it back in early August, and if…

Back in July, I wrote about the chorus of criticism that greeted Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to revive a civil asset forfeiture program that had been suspended by…

Maybe one of the most common misconceptions about the free market is that it encourages people to pursue their own “narrow self-interest,” usually interpreted as caring only about one’s self…

Earlier this month Amazon announced it was looking for a second headquarters in North America. The company said it would involve 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment. It is…

You may have missed the news that North Carolina government had higher revenue and lower spending than budgeted for the third year in a row. When government takes in…

On Thursday night, Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted 7-2 to hold a public hearing on using tax dollars – for the next 20 years – to build a proposed…

On Thursday, state education officials released 2016-17 accountability results for all North Carolina district and charter schools.  Overall, there was little difference in the performance of schools last year…

The traditional common law torts of alienation of affection (depriving a married person of a spouse’s “love, society, companionship and comfort”) and criminal conversation (engaging in sexual relations with a…

Have you ever wondered why people are not convinced by your arguments to get government out of the business of trying to fix a problem because its interventions only cause…

Sometimes, local governments seem to create solutions to problems that may not even really exist in the first place.  And usually, when they do, those “solutions” create tremendous burdens on…