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Labeling the Golden State ‘Cali-fraudia’
Editors at Issues and Insights ponder the latest bad news from the West Coast. Californians have a right to be angry about Minnesota. It’s getting all the federal government attention…
Kazakhstan
sovereign state in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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Pardon Only Enhances Scandal Surrounding Hunter Biden
Eli Lake writes for the Free Press about the fallout emerging from President Biden’s pardon of his son. In what might be the greatest subtweet of 2024, outgoing Democratic congressman…
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Records Show Direct Payments from Hunter’s Business to Biden
Brittany Bernstein of National Review Online documents the latest bad news for the Biden presidency. A corporation owned and controlled by Hunter Biden made several direct monthly payments to President…
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GOP Lawmakers Release Evidence of Biden’s Corruption
Carver Malone writes for America Insider about congressional Republicans’ response to Biden administration spin. Democrats and left-wing operatives in the mainstream media say there is “no evidence” that Joe Biden…
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Hunter Biden’s Business Boomed After Dad Came to Dinner
Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner reports an interesting development in the Hunter Biden scandal. After then-Vice President Joe Biden attended one dinner in April 2015 with Hunter Biden and…
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Biden Business Collected $20M from Foreign Oligarchs While Joe Was VP
Tristan Justice of the Federalist analyzes new evidence of President Biden’s dubious behavior during the Obama years. The Biden family raked in upwards of $20 million from foreign business partners…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
North Carolina’s economy on the world stage, 2015
This post is a follow-up to an earlier post, looking at how North Carolina’s GDP compares on the world stage if NC — and the other U.S. states — were independent…
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Barron’s columnist ponders the latest Olympics siting choice
Randall Forsyth of Barron’s explores the recent decision to award Beijing the 2022 Winter Olympics. No cold, no snow? No problem! That in essence was what Chinese officials must have…
Education
NC vs. the world: Results from TIMSS
View in your browser. Welcome TIMSS are not people, they are tests! Results from the 2011 TIMSS (Trends In International Mathematics and Science Study) have been released. Last year, North…
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Timss scores released
Timss is the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. This article provides a good overview of the results. In fourth grade math, the United States ranks 11th. Eight countries…
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New phrase: “Hemispheric energy independence”
I found that phrase in this Bloomberg article about the redoubtable oil finds in Brazil: Brazil’s discoveries of what may be two of the world’s three biggest oil finds in…
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free market transportation
Below is a message from former North Carolinian, author, and JLF speaker Wallace Kaufman, that was posted on a listserve that we are both on. It is posted below with…