In addition to his radio appearance, Don Carrington’s investigation into voter registration drives at state facilities for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled attracted attention from WorldNetDaily, Lucianne.com, and the Beaufort Observer.

Top-rated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh quoted a Facebook status update from Carolina Journal Publisher Jon Ham: “So, if Al-Jazeera buys Al Gore’s loser network, Current TV, does that mean Joy Behar and Jennifer Granholm will now have to start wearing burqas on air?”

A Winston-Salem Journal columnist cited John Locke Foundation Director of Regulatory Studies Jon Sanders‘ recent CJ comments about taxpayer money wasted on electric vehicle charging stations.

The Thomasville Times published a pair of stories from CJ contributor Sara Burrows. One documented the UNC Health Care chief executive’s preference for a single-payer health care system. The other polled North Carolina’s congressional delegation for their attitudes about additional gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting. The Free North Carolina blog and N.C. Senate Republicans also took note of that gun control article.

The Thomasville Times and Kernersville News published Carolina Journal Radio Co-Host Donna Martinez‘s column about the impact of a new Obama-related tax on medical devices. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press emails Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s report on North Carolina’s No. 26 ranking in public school graduation rates, along with Associate Editor Dan Way‘s articles on the prospects for virtual charter schools in North Carolina and Gov.-elect Pat McCrory’s attitude about taxpayer funding for passenger rail in the Triangle.