Liberty
New, Better Sites Taking Drudge’s Place
Editors at Issues and Insights praise alternatives to the Drudge Report. The unmistakable decline of the once mighty Drudge Report into a cesspool of liberal links had led to endless…
Drudge Report
Online news aggregation website run by conservative commentator Matt Drudge
Liberty
Censors Used ‘Disinformation’ Label to Target Conservative Outlets
Judson Berger writes for National Review Online about misuse of the label “disinformation.” Yet more evidence has surfaced that the “disinformation” panic is undermining a free and open press —…
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Free-speech restrictions more dangerous than crazy speech
John Fund of National Review Online urges policymakers not to go overboard in attempts to combat hateful speech. As horrifying as the killings by the El Paso and Dayton shooters…
Elections & Public Integrity
Resisting regulation of online political speech
Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon documents concerns from Republican members of the Federal Election Commission. Republicans on the Federal Election Commission are vowing to fight regulations on online…
Liberty
JLF, CJ track stimulus story and other Hagan-Tillis developments
Questionable activity surrounding a solar panel project involving U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s family and federal stimulus funding has generated multiple news articles from Carolina Journal Executive Editor Don Carrington. The…
Regulation
An FEC crackdown on conservative media?
Given the subject of today’s John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society presentation from media attorney Mark Prak on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), you might be interested in Paul Bedard‘s latest…
Liberty
What’s really making life more difficult for fast-food workers? It’s not their employers; it’s Obamacare
View in your browser. Under an executive model based on community organizing, the process for achieving political goals involves astroturfed spectacles set up for overhype by willing media, to heighten…
Education
Media ignores public school job numbers
View in your browser. Welcome Did you hear about the latest public school employment numbers released by the NC Department of Public Instruction? The number of public school employees is…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
NC to Congress: Hey, you don’t have to legalize weed to tax it
The Drudge Report has this AP article up under the headline “FEDS MAY TAX POT,” which opens with the lede “An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana…
Liberty
Political polarization
Rob Christensen of the Raleigh News & Observer has a new column out on why we’re so polarized. It’s well worth a read. Sample quote: Now we are much more…
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Killer voter, Tata tales, and other items of interest
The news that a voter registration drive within state mental hospitals helped notorious Chapel Hill killer Wendell Williamson cast a ballot in this year’s election continues to attract publicity. Carolina…
Education
This is Sara Burrows’ school lunch story that Rush, Hannity, etc., were talking about today
In case you missed it, Sara’s Carolina Journal Online exclusive that was posted early this morning burned up the talk shows and the Web today. Rush Limbaugh read much of…