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NYT changes tune on absentee ballot fraud
Eric Felten explains in a Federalist column that the New York Times has dropped its long-standing concerns about absentee ballots. To pass a law limiting absentee ballots, as Georgia recently…
Liberty
Signs of the GOP establishment striking back
James Antle of the Washington Examiner highlights an interesting development among Republicans in Washington, D.C. For the first time since at least 2015, former House Speaker John Boehner is the…
Regulation
Unions can’t survive without coercion
David Harsanyi writes at National Review Online about a “dirty secret” involving labor unions’ survival tactics. It was heartening, though not particularly surprising, to see workers at an Amazon warehouse…
Health Care
Challenging Fauci’s assessment of science’s proper role
Charles Cooke of National Review Online explains why Dr. Anthony Fauci has the wrong idea about science’s role in the public process. Dr. Fauci says that the FDA’s decision to…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online about families’ long-time student learning challenges tied to COVID-19 school closures. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion urges lawmakers to move forward with a plan…
Elections & Public Integrity
Voter ID and the “disparate impact” sham
The state superior court this week began hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed to overturn North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID requirement. A cornerstone of the case made by those challenging…
Education
Bill to improve choice programs advances
Prospects for expanded educational choice in North Carolina when the North Carolina House of Representatives passed the Equity in Opportunity Act (HB 32) on straight party line vote, 69-49. The…
Liberty
Pat McCrory Jumps Into U.S. Senate Race: Watch His Video Here.
Former Gov. Pat McCrory has jumped into the race for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Richard Burr. He joins former Triad-area Congressman Mark Walker.…
Education
Leandro judge won’t force new education spending by General Assembly
Locke’s Terry Stoops was right. Here’s why. Just two weeks ago he wrote that we should expect to hear the word “Leandro” a lot more in the months ahead. And…
Education
Martin center column explores the need for teacher education reform
Lucien Ellington writes for the Martin Centeer about problems within teacher education that have devastating impacts for students. Most American children are trapped in public elementary and secondary schools that…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Democrats and teachers’ unions: trying to fool us twice
The American Rescue Plan Act's $130 billion for K-12 education included $3.6 billion for North Carolina public schools, but strangely for an emergency, only 5 percent of that education spending…
Health Care
Big Tech’s self-interested motive in censoring science
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist sees a clear motive for Big Tech companies to censor scientific evidence that contradicts the prevailing public narrative. On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and…