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Two weeks ago, both houses of the N.C. General Assembly voted unanimously to approve House Bill 379: An Act to Assist the Criminal Law Recodification Working Group. This week, Governor…
Kate Hardiman writes for the Washington Examiner about a disturbing trend affecting public charter schools across the country. For the past four years, the annual rate of charter school growth…
Attorneys Robert Henneke and Chance Weldon argue in a Daily Caller column that recent changes challenge the Affordable Care Act‘s constitutionality. In 2012, the five conservative justices on the United…
Stateline reports on the growth of government efforts to regulate trees on private property as part of urban planning: Cities have long regulated what can be done to trees in…
A centuries-old legal principle requires that a person should have a “mens rea,” or guilty mind, to be charged with a crime. That still holds true for most crimes, but…
RALEIGH — North Carolina should ensure innocent people are not charged, prosecuted, and convicted for conduct they could not reasonably be expected to know is wrong. That’s the key conclusion…
Kent Grusendorf and Colin Butler of the Texas Public Policy Foundation investigate which parents are most likely to take advantage of school choice. In order for the United States to…
In light of recent attacks from Capitol Hill, it seems fitting to highlight Michael Bastasch‘s latest Daily Caller article. A former NASA climate scientist has put out a new report…
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In other election news: A referendum in Texas ended with a ban on hydraulic fracturing within Denton, TX city limits. It appears that permanent residents were opposed to the ban…
Are Americans better off when federal bureaucrats operate more efficiently? Perhaps not, once one considers Alex Adrianson‘s recent take on this topic for the Heritage Foundation’s “InsiderOnline” blog. We hear…
View in your browser. There’s been a lot of talk lately about North Carolina’s spending on education, with claims that the Republican legislature is dismantling a hard-earned reputation for educational…