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Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Health Care
What summer could have been with Covid
UNC Professor Zeynep Tufekci says public health officials missed an opportunity this summer: we should have made it a priority to encourage people to recharge, psychologically, as much as possible…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on questions surrounding a second term for Gov. Roy Cooper. Joseph Coletti’s Daily Journal explains how markets can deal with more than money.
Health Care
The Right AOC on Point: Facebook censors JLF’s data on ineffective mask mandates
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” discusses Facebook’s decision to flag her post featuring JLF research about the ineffectiveness of mask mandates. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Above-average and excess deaths in NC even before counting COVID deaths. Are Cooper’s orders the reason?
How many North Carolinians are suffering dire health consequences from the negative unintended consequences of Cooper's orders?
Health Care
Inconvenient questions about positive ‘rights’
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online questions claims involving rights. Some bad ideas we recoil from morally: Nazism, for instance. Others do not come with the same kind of emotional…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on Gov. Roy Cooper’s reinstatement of COVID-19 restrictions, along with criticism from State Treasurer Dale Folwell. John Hood’s Daily Journal urges Cooper to…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Are Gov. Cooper’s Executive Orders having devastating health effects?
Lives are at stake. Are Gov. Cooper's lockdowns, business shutdowns and partial shutdowns, social-distancing policies, gathering bans, and myriad other restrictions on people, places, and events having devastating health effects…
Research Brief
Health Care
Why We Need the NC Threat-Free Index
For many weeks I have been producing contextualized looks at North Carolina’s COVID-19 numbers. Recently, I’ve started calling it the “NC Threat-Free Index.” Here’s why. Round-the-clock virus coverage in media,…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What I’m watching election night
After months of anticipation, piles of money spent, endless TV commercials watched and too many visits from candidates to count, the 2020 election is finally here. Several of my colleagues…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online about the impact of economic shutdowns and uncertainty on N.C. opioid abuse. John Hood’s Daily Journal compares elections to a soap opera.
Health Care
Amassing evidence against mask mandates
Yinon Weiss writes for the Federalist about evidence countering the supposed benefits of wearing masks to fight COVID-19. Masks have become a political tool and a talisman. When COVID-19 hit,…
Health Care
The Right AOC on Point: Fighting the political weaponization of COVID-19
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” discusses pushback against mask mandates and other N.C. government restrictions linked to COVID-19. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC…