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Liberty
Latest impeachment as ‘Pelosi’s folly’
Clarice Feldman of the American Thinker explores the political calculations linked to President Trump’s second impeachment. Does the President have a right to free speech? Josh Blackman, a constitutional law…
Liberty
NY Post distancing itself from other major media outlets
Jeff Charles writes for Red State about a significant editorial change at one major newspaper. The New York Post has reportedly banned its journalists from using certain left-leaning activist media…
Law & Public Safety
Anti-police activism prompts predictable response
Frank Main and Fran Spielman write in the Chicago Sun-Times about one consequence of the recent nationwide attack on police. The number of police officers retiring in Chicago and other…
Elections & Public Integrity
Lingering questions about the 2020 election
Joe Biden will take his oath of office this week as the next president. No one should use violence to try to prevent that oath from taking place. Yet questions…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on a study that says it’s safe to reopen schools in counties with low COVID-19 hospitalization rates. John Hood’s Daily Journal urges us…
Liberty
North Carolina’s Connection To The ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
Dignity and opportunity for every human being, no matter one’s background, zip code, race, creed, economic circumstance, or ideology. It’s what we seek through our work at the John Locke…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Why NC should envy Japan’s COVID-19 response
The contrasts between Cooper's heavy-handed, deeply authoritarian, and woefully ineffective policies and Japan's less restrictive, more sensible virus mitigation policies are striking. So, too, are the similarities between Japan's policies…
Energy
New session highlights second chance for previous ideas
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” – Ecclesiastes 1:9 Yesterday kicked off the new two-year…
Education
Wake County Schools is the latest district to ignore the scientific consensus on COVID
Keung Hui of the News & Observer has the latest: Wake County students will not return to in-person instruction for at least another month due to concerns about rising COVID-19 numbers…
Education
Martin Center column proposes fix for college language requirement
Lee Jones writes for the Martin Center about a helpful reform for higher education. In her fine opinion piece for the Martin Center, Megan Zogby bemoans the “Quixotic” requirement that…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cooper pledged over half a billion dollars to 48 cronies as NC lost over 222K jobs
Cooper's corporate welfare tally for 2020 is jaw-dropping: $519.3 million pledged to just 48 corporations. Supposedly that would lead to 11,600 new jobs, which is only about one-nineteenth the number…
Health Care
Coronavirus as a never-ending problem
Tyler Van Dyke reports for the Washington Examiner about one disturbing prediction involving the future of coronavirus. In short, one expert believes we are far from seeing a return to…