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• State Policy Network honors Pope

  Businessman, philanthropist, and former state legislator Art Pope collected an honor tonight in Asheville from the State Policy Network, a group that supports America's state-based free-market think tanks. Pope, who played a leading role in forming the John Locke Foundation, won the 2009 Thomas Rowe Award for his work in supporting [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:51pm EST
  

• 'Land of the greed and home of the slave'

  At an event in September honoring the Monthly Review, a Marxist publication, Jeremiah Wright calls America "the land of the greed and home of the slave." [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:23pm EST
  

• And after Obama perfected the health care system....

  Will federal intrusion into health care be the end of its social engineering? Of course not! There is never a point at which the meddling busybodies say, "Well, now things are just right and now we'll just leave people alone." What the next big socialist crusade might be is open to [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:30pm EST
  

• What is the "stimulus" money buying?

  Remember how Obama insisted that every dollar of the "stimulus package" was going to be spent responsibly, on things the public really needed? Read this Examiner piece that details a considerable number of the projects our tax dollars are funding.... [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:02am EST
  

• Obama and the Berlin Wall

  Here is Rich Lowry's NRO piece on Obama's decision to take a pass on going to Berlin for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Lowry right observes that Obama's blathery statement completely misses the point about the valiant struggle of people in eastern Europe to escape from [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:26am EST
  

• New Carolina Journal Online features

  The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Hal Young's report on the unintended consequences of a new ban of plastic bottles from North Carolina landfills. John Hood's [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:53am EST
  

• Barnes examines Obama's first-year record

  A year has passed since American voters chose Barack Obama to be their 44th president. Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard and Fox News examined Obama's record during his featured presentation to the State Policy Network Monday night in Asheville. Click play below to hear Barnes describe what he sees [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:00am EST