John Locke Updates

When Congress ended the 70-year-old tobacco price controls program, it was a “prime example of the ultimate triumph of economic forces over political control,” wrote JLF adjunct scholar Mike Walden.

This week, the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider” weblog picked up several items from JLF’s blog, “The Locker Room.” Paul Chesser’s funny posting about potential classes Sen. Edwards might teach at…

Thanksgiving morning brought more than the prospect of food, family, and football to Raleigh News & Observer readers. They were also treated to a front-page story about the Pope Center…

It was big news this week when Sen. President Pro Tem Marc Basnight was called before a grand jury delving into the shenanigans of the John Hyman Foundation and former…

Research on the effectiveness of dollars spent on North Carolina road projects, conducted for JLF by UNC-Charlotte’s Dr. David Hartgen, has made its way into The Urban Transportation Monitor. The…

Lindalyn Kakadelis met this week with advocates of school choice in Stokes County and addressed the faculty at Greensboro Academy, a K-8 charter school in Guilford County. She also was…

Earlier this month, Karen Palasek’s Spotlight report, Truth on Teacher Shortage” revealed that projections from the National Center for Education Statistics do not support the “exponential growth” in public school…

It seems the Foundation for Economic Freedom is finding JLF a rich source of material for its web site and magazine The Freeman. This month both George Leef and John…

“The 2004 election results tell the tale of two Republican parties,” wrote John Hood in a commentary published in The Carolinian newspaper. Hood described the impressive gains at the national…

The possible creation of a Western Civilization program at UNC-Chapel Hill, funded by a donation from the John William Pope Foundation, has some faculty and students slinging insults at the…