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Hate Facebook? Just #DeleteFacebook, Sacha
A tweet from February 2020 posted by Sacha Baron Cohen (AKA Borat) has been making its rounds on Twitter again this week. His tweet reads “We don’t let 1 person…
Corporate personhood
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To Interview a Corporate Personhood
Jackson County has received five bids for a new tourism director. All are from firms, not people, and two are from out-of-county.
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Failure Is the New Success
Right now, my brain is being fed with analysis of the debate from two channels. I don’t feel it is any of my business to engage in other-party primaries on…
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Convenient Aggregations
The local legislative delegation and leaders of WNC Move to Amend groups held a press conference to urge a Constitutional amendment to prevent corporate gifting to politicians. This is fine…
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You’re Invited!
From the Mountain Xpress: Move to Amend of Buncombe County will sponsor a presentation by David Cobb of the National Move to Amend organization on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7…
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“Corporations aren’t people with Constitutional rights!” Do you really believe this?
This is a standard claim of progressives and their biggest complaint against not only the recent Hobby Lobby ruling regarding the HHS contraceptive mandate but also the Citizens United decision…
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Goldberg probes the heart of the Hobby Lobby dispute
Looking past the rhetoric of the reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, Jonah Goldberg examines more fundamental disputes in his latest column. If I like to dress…
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The Left’s Fight Against Free Speech
JLF’s John Hood weighs in on the illogical fight by the Left to squash the right to speak. Democrats in Washington want to strip the NAACP, the Sierra Club, the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on details of upcoming state budget negotiations. John Hood’s Daily Journal focuses on misguided attempts to limit free-speech rights of people acting together…
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“this merely underscores the radicalism of the Administration’s position”
The Wall Street Journal slices and dices the Obama administration’s argument that government power should trump the religious liberty of private businesses. Consider this exchange between Justice Kennedy and Solicitor General…
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Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby: March 25, 2014
For those who care about religious freedom, put March 25, 2014 on your calendar, as that’s the day the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby.…
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W-S council ponders Citizens United resolution
At last night’s meeting, the Winston-Salem City Council directed its government committee to study a resolution calling for the overturn of the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision, which allowed unlimited…