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This week, JLF’s Mike Schietzelt reported in a research brief on the state of North Carolina’s criminal code. Schietzelt puts forward an ordinance from Lillington, N.C. as an example of…
A 79-year-old Ohio widow, Nancy Segula, made national news last week when a judge sentenced her to serve 10 days in jail for feeding her neighbor’s abandoned cats. Although another…
Why we oppose the state’s anti-“gouging” law enforcing pre-disaster pricing Laws that forbid price increases during extreme events have bad unintended consequences at the very worst of times. Precisely because…
I'm reminded of what happened to carpenters, tree-removal firms, generator retailers, and others in North Carolina after Hurricane Fran, as then–Attorney General Mike Easley took to the airwaves repeatedly warning about…
WRAL reports today that “Democrats in North Carolina are trying to pressure Republican U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers to support the health care overhaul that passed Congress last year” by “holding…
To everyone convinced that the Bob Etheridge they saw in the ?Who Are You?? video bears no relationship to the man they?ve known for decades as a county commissioner, state…
Joe, Folks can see Renee Elmers in action in the video below. You’ll see her about halfway through this video of a “Hands Off My Health Care” tour stop Aug.…
Malinda Harris has been denied a place to live on the street where she grew up in Lillington by 3-2 vote of the Board of Commissioners. Her “crime?” She wanted…
While 1st District Rep. G.K. Butterfield remains, according to the News & Observer, “the only Democrat in the state who has agreed to hold a town hall,” 2nd District Rep.…
Also on the town-hall front, beginning tonight at 7, the State Employees Association of North Carolina will stage a series of public events over the next three weeks supporting the…
Dana Loesch says: You’ve heard a lot about this crazy, scary, vicious mob on some shadowy GOP payroll. By the way the DNC, Rachel Maddow, and President Obama talk, you’d…