Regulation
Government regulations typically restrict people’s behaviors and choices– causing economic damage, especially to society’s vulnerable who can least afford to comply. Locke works to deregulate and support innovation and growth.
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on school choice in North Carolina. The Daily Journal highlights a court filing that shows Gov. Roy Cooper’s…
“Fascism is the organised attempt to introduce socialist planning with the consent of big business.”
That’s how Edward Conze defined it in 1934. By the time he wrote it Conze had been condemned by the Nazis, who saw to it that most copies of what…
NC regulatory reform helped inspire a federal reform — and here’s what else it can do
The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just published a rule inspired and informed in part by a significant regulatory reform in North Carolina long promoted by…
Time for the General Assembly to put the brakes on collusive lawsuit settlements
To protect us from collusive settlements designed to circumvent NC laws, especially election laws, the General Assembly needs to strengthen and clarify G.S. 1-72.2(b) so that judges cannot cut legislative…
Biden to undo Obamacare alternatives
David Hogberg writes for the Washington Examiner about the new president’s plan to reverse recent health care reforms. As the Biden administration looks to make its mark on healthcare, one…
New session highlights second chance for previous ideas
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” – Ecclesiastes 1:9 Yesterday kicked off the new two-year…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
COVID-19 and the government shutdowns tied to it have created special challenges for entrepreneurs in North Carolina’s alcohol-related industries. John Trump reviews those challenges during the next edition of Carolina…
A Victory for Wilmington Property Owners
The Institute for Justice recently announced: IJ clients David and Peg Schroeder are lifelong members of the Wilmington community. After retiring to the mountains, they bought a townhome in Wilmington…
A Topical Discussion of the Right to Bear Arms
The Liberty and Law Center at Antonin Scalia Law School is publishing a series of articles dealing with “the Second Amendment and civil unrest.” Although the series was originally inspired…
Japan: no COVID lockdown, no testing asymptomatic people, and no excess deaths
"The West should envy Japan's COVID-19 response" is the title of this article in Japan Times. The author is Ramesh Thakur, an emeritus professor at the Crawford School of Public…
NC bars and taverns struggle to stay afloat
Among the North Carolina businesses hardest hit by Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 shutdowns are bars, taverns, and distillers. Very few customers means very little — if any — revenue to…
Slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout doesn’t mean a need for more central planning
Veronique de Rugy writes at National Review Online about one flawed narrative linked to the COVID-19 vaccine. Who is surprised that the federal government fell far short of its promise…