Roy Cordato was eating lunch earlier this week when he heard a familiar argument on Rush Limbaugh’s top-rated nationally syndicated talk radio program. Cordato realized quickly that Limbaugh had decided to read — verbatim — a Locker Room blog entry contrasting the Occupy Wall Street protesters with predecessors who took to American streets in the 1960s. While Limbaugh offered Cordato no credit, Cordato is listed now among speakers available to discuss the late economist Milton Friedman’s legacy as part of the Free to Choose Network’s Milton Friedman Century. The Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” promoted Cordato’s corporate tax report. In other research news, voters in four North Carolina counties approved local sales-tax increases this week. Despite that bad news, the Locke Foundation attracted attention for publicizing government agencies’ illegal use of taxpayer dollars to promote the sales-tax referendums. Daren Bakst led that publicity effort. WRAL.com noted Bakst’s concerns, and a News & Observer editorial cited JLF while urging state lawmakers to clarify the law. The Daily Tar Heel also mentioned JLF in its election recap story. The Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” promoted a JLF report critiquing Montgomery County’s sales-tax proposal. Michael Sanera and research intern Kevin Munger released a new Regional Brief cataloguing county governments’ privatization efforts. Sanera and Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies, delivered a webinar for the E.A. Morris Fellowship for Emerging Leaders on “History, Education, and History Education.” Stoops’ research into North Carolina’s growing rate of community college remediation continues to prompt defensive replies from the state’s public education establishment, including the state superintendent of public instruction’s recent letter to the Daily Tar Heel. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted a recent Daily Journal column from Jon Sanders, Associate Director of Research, on a presidential gaffe involving one of Benjamin Franklin’s famous quips. Sanders used a similar column as his latest contribution to TownHall.com. Fergus Hodgson’s latest Future of Freedom Foundation commentary focuses on the role of imports in relieving medicine shortages.