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Law & Public Safety
Speaking of Black Women Who Are Well-Qualified to Be on the Supreme Court . . .
Last week John McCormack earned a “like” from me for pointing out that “Biden can keep his SCOTUS campaign promise and win the vote of every Republican senator” simply by nominating Janice…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
The Late 20th Century Crime Wave Was a Disaster for Blacks and the Poor
Crime rates soared between 1960 and 1980 and remained high throughout the rest of the century, making fighting crime and restoring order national priorities. The burden of crime and disorder…
Research Brief
Health Care
Challenging North Carolina’s Pernicious and Unconstitutional Certificate of Need Law
North Carolina’s Certificate of Need law harms patients, insurers, and taxpayers by making health care more expensive and less accessible. New Bern eye surgeon Jay Singleton has filed a lawsuit…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Court of Appeals Defends Constitutional Principles in Leandro Case
A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to block Judge David Lee’s order to withdraw approximately $1.7 billion from the General Fund without the necessary…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Black Lives Matter —Which Is Why We Need More Police Funding, Not Less
Crime and the breakdown of public order have again become serious and politically salient problems in United States. As politicians and policymakers look for ways to bring the current crime…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Time to Amend the Emergency Management Act, Concluded
The recently enacted budget bill makes two badly needed changes to the Emergency Management Act (EMA) One of those changes ensures that the governor may only exercise extraordinary emergency powers…
Research Brief
Health Care
Who Is Contracting Covid-19 in NC?
ver the month of October, 71.4% of new Covid-19 cases in North Carolina were to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated individuals. Meanwhile, 26.7% of new cases were to fully vaccinated…
Education
Judge Lee’s Leandro Ruling Is Not a Moral Crusade. It’s a Money Grab.
Statement From Dr. Terry Stoops on Judge Lee’s Leandro Ruling Judge David Lee’s Leandro ruling is not a moral crusade. It’s a money grab. Today, Judge Lee trampled the North…
Law & Public Safety
Who Is Contracting Covid-19 in NC? Post-Vaccinated, Reinfected, and the Not Fully Vaccinated
While there were about 2.7 times more Covid-19 cases to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated individuals than there were to fully vaccinated individuals, there were about 14.3 times more cases…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Carolina Journal Online reports on the state Supreme Court’s second crack at a case targeting Attorney General Josh Stein’s hog farm “slush fund.” John Hood’s CJ Opinion reminds us that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending November 8
This past week about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly nine out of ten (89.4%) adult North Carolinians are estimated…
Elections & Public Integrity
Progressives Lost Bigtime Last Week. What Does That Mean For the Leftist Agenda?
Teacher union-aligned Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost his bid to be governor of Virginia. Democrat Phil Murphy came within a few thousand votes of losing the governor’s seat in blue, blue…