Tag: John Locke Foundation
John Locke Foundation to Jones Street: Spend, baby, spend.
It seems like just yesterday that The John Locke Foundation — the alleged conservative HQ of North Carolina – was smacking around Jones Street for spending like drunken sailors. In case you haven’t heard, state government is running a $900 million…
NCGOPe all-stars cheer Easley crony’s staying power in Raleigh swamp
Every once in a while we get some evidence that — like in DC — Raleigh, and state government, are run by ONE big government-loving PARTY. Look at what popped up on Twitter: Dan Gerlach was appointed head of The Golden Leaf Foundation in 2008….
John Locke crowd is learning: Republican, conservative NOT the same thing.
The John Locke Foundation was quite often the critic of state government when Democrats ran the show. Though, they got a little sycophantic toward the governing class when the 2010 “conservative revolution” rolled into town and the McCrory era dawned. Now, it appears some folks…
A (not-so) civil war in Pope-land?
THAT is what it is looking like. Gazillionaire Art Pope has his hand — and cash — behind an awful lot of things political that are purportedly conservative. The John Locke Foundation and The Civitas Institute are two examples. You would think that both organizations…
John Locke Foundation & Planned Parenthood: A “Winning” Team?
Yessirree, bob. The John Locke Foundation and their fearless – and tap-dancing, I may add — leader are joining forces with the likes of Planned Parenthood and the AFL-CIO to press their case with those mean ol’ Republicans in the General Assembly. (Personally, I can’t…
Locke Foundation teams up with a bunch of libs. (Um, Yay.)
John Hood and Chris Fitzsimon don’t just team up on NC Spin. They are also doing it more and more on state policy matters: A coalition of policy and advocacy groups renewed their efforts to convince the General Assembly to set up an independent…
#ncpol: Team Pope protecting Pat about planes?
Civitas and The John Locke Foundation have long billed themselves as non-partisan, conservative watchdogs looking out for the interests of the taxpayer. They went hard after former Democrat governors Mike Easley and Bev Perdue. But when it comes to Republican Pat McCrory? *CRICKETS.* Both organizations…
#ncpol: John Locke, neutered?
I’ve had my suspicions about what HAS or HAS NOT been going on within the John Locke Foundation lately. The so-called hotbed of free market thought in North Carolina has been — lately — championing things like reparations and the installation of tracking devices on…
The cost of government
There is a lot of hubbub about the state budget right now. We’re hearing a lot from county and city officials moaning about how hard it is to do business without x-amount of dollars from the state. We thought it might be a great time…
#NCGA: Jones Street mafia targeting Civitas, Locke & US ????
Apparently, General Maximus has unleashed hell upon the powers-that-be within the North Carolina General Assembly. From what I hear, the common folks beyond the beltline DID NOT vote in a Republican majority in order to get hit with higher gas taxes and to give even more…
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