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Democratic Senate challengers say nothing about D.C. statehood
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a notable silence about a high-priority issue among Democratic Senate candidates. A number of prominent 2020 Democratic Senate challengers have refused to…
Liberty
Hanson laments summer of ‘cultural suicide’
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online ponders the impact of this summer’s political developments. Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit. Historians…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The next federal COVID-19 relief package explored
Robert VerBruggen of National Review Online highlights the latest haggling on Capitol Hill over COVID-19. You can give House Democrats credit for one thing: When they realized that another COVID-19…
Agriculture
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Uncertainty about the 2020-21 academic year is prompting more N.C. parents to look into alternatives to traditional public schools. Terry Stoops assesses the impact for school choice during the next…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello of Carolina Journal Online recaps the week’s top N.C. political developments. John Trump’s Daily Journal slams an “irresponsible, shameful” newspaper editorial that calls for a more heavy-handed approach…
Education
The Right AOC on Point: New lawsuit launches cruel attack on educational opportunity
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” discusses a new lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program for low-income families. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC…
Education
NCAE strategy: “Tapping into re-entry anxiety” pivoting “into electoral mobilization”
The following page is from “Build Our Union. Reclaim Our State. NCAE Summer/ Fall 2020 Campaign Our Schools. Our Safety. Our Say.”
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Law & Public Safety
Preventing eminent domain abuse in North Carolina
The John Locke Foundation and the North Carolina Advocates for Justice recently filed a joint amicus or “friend of the court” brief in support of a Wake County property owner…
Liberty
Questioning the consensus view of recent riots
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist questions popular thought about the nature of recent riots across the nation. The conventional wisdom congealing among elites in Washington, D.C., is that the…
Law & Public Safety
Supreme Court faces another appeal from church facing COVID-19 restrictions
Nicholas Rowan of the Washington Examiner highlights a First Amendment appeal to the nation’s highest court. A Chicago church on Tuesday announced its intentions to appeal to the Supreme Court,…
Liberty
Analyzing attacks on Cotton
Editors at the Washington Free Beacon assess the political left’s attack on Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton. It is alarming how quickly, and shamelessly, the left and its media allies have…
Law & Public Safety
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and independence from Trump
Josh Blackman writes at National Review Online about the performance to date of President Trump’s two U.S. Supreme Court appointees. Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, perhaps more than any other…