Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
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.
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Regulation
EPA advisor smashes Cooper and Cohen’s “case” for masks
Is DHHS's own case for forcing masks based on a meta-analysis that finds masks are not even effective?
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Gov. Cooper’s “Clean Energy Plan,” Part 4: Helping the Environment or Just Helping China?
PEVs would increase electricity use and actually exacerbate global warming to the extent GHGs are the cause. Cooper should instead focus on reducing the carbon intensity of our electricity grid…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis and Rick Henderson report for Carolina Journal Online about Republican complaints that Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein is flouting state public-records law. John Hood’s Daily Journal dissects a…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Fog of COVID-19 Data: How many cases aren’t even cases?
How many of North Carolina's "positive" cases would have been negative if the state's cycle threshold was more in line with research consensus, the CDC's recommendation, or the best advice…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
The fight over a new U.S. Supreme Court nominee reminds us about progressives’ continuing attacks on the U.S. Constitution. Jon Guze discusses those attacks and analyzes the nominee — Judge…
Elections & Public Integrity
The Right AOC on Point: Midwestern state inspires ‘Supreme Court envy’
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” explains why one state has given her a case of “Supreme Court envy.” Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC…
Health Care
“The lockdowns must end”
That’s the subtitle of a recent Manhattan Institute peice by John Tierney. Here are the opening paragraphs: Lockdowns are typically portrayed as prudent precautions against Covid-19, but they are surely…
Regulation
Winner of Supreme Court gun case still affected by slow bureaucracy
Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon details new gun-rights developments in the nation’s capital. Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department claims to have streamlined the handgun-transfer process following complaints from…
Elections & Public Integrity
Gun-control group ignores its own issue to sway elections
Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon details the surprising strategy a gun-control group is using to influence swing-state elections. The nation’s largest gun-control group dodged guns entirely in a…
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Law & Public Safety
Questions and answers about the NC Supreme Court races
When you go to the polls, or when you fill out your absentee ballots, remember that the NC Supreme Court justices you choose will be able to exercise more power over you…
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Regulation
“Sue and Settle”: How leftist lawyers get judges to enforce leftist desires when they’re contrary to established law
Under the terms of the settlement, the Board of Elections would evaluate absentee ballots without the prescribed witness protections and allow nine days after election day to have those ballots…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
By Gov. Cooper’s own standards, NC should be open
Remember Cooper's supposed "metrics" for reopening? According to the very standards the governor set, North Carolina should be open and back to business.