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    History On The March

    posted September 14, 2006
    Our resident historian Troy Kickler has published, yet again. Read what he has to say about radical republican teachers and reconstruction in the latest issue of Chronicles: A Magazine…
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    Blog Master’s Blogged

    posted September 14, 2006
    Resident blog master, Jon Sanders, got a nice hat-tip in the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education’s blog, The Tourch, for his coverage of JLF friend, Mike Adams’s denied…
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    Unsticking the Web

    posted September 7, 2006
    After two, full years of web activity, here are the numbers for the JLF websites. There’s a 77 percent rise in visits between August 2006 and August 2004. That is…
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    Election News

    posted September 7, 2006
    In the National Review Online, John Hood diagrams the Democratic Party’s move away from their frontrunner, Hillary. In a preview of local elections, Mitch Kokai took on Chris Fitzsimon…
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    Looking at Local Concerns

    posted September 7, 2006
    Until the General Assembly decides to look at the systemic problems inherent in Medicaid (the continued growth in the cost of the program due to waste, fraud, abuse and liberal…
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    50 Things You Can Do to Wise-Up

    posted September 7, 2006
    All right, so I don’t have time to list out all fifty.  But this is a start.  First, think of all the legal activities you do that some people make…
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    Roy’s Got Your Living Wage

    posted September 7, 2006
    In trying to pull the poor out of poverty, some ironically turn to the living wage as a solution. Arbitrarily raising the wage of an employee, who does not increase…
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    Corruption is Apolitical

    posted September 7, 2006
    Whether you’re a leader participating in it or a citizen reading about it, corruption is indiscriminate. Just ask Don Carrington, whose keen smell for corruption has landed him the job…
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    The Future of Schools

    posted September 7, 2006
    Lindalyn Kakadelis spoke to a Charter School Board at Grandfather Academy about the unique characteristics that charter schools offer to students.  She also spoke to the Wake County Taxpayers Association…
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    Get More of a Bad Thing

    posted September 7, 2006
    Colleges nationwide are accepting more applicants in an effort to provide higher education for all, while the quality of the education provided continues to decline. In his most recent report,…

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