In China offered to build a million pagoda in Washington D C However the project was killed by federal officials when they discovered multiple red flags indicating it was actually a spying plot The FBI has also been investigating Huawei equipment determined to be capable of receiving and disrupting American nuclear weapons communications Jay Jordan and the rest of the Sekulow team discuss these latest Chinese threats This and more today on Sekulow [... more]

Carolina Journal Radio celebrates its th weekly episode marking more than years of documenting interesting developments in N C politics and public policy Using that milestone as a starting point John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke looks ahead to the future for JLF efforts to spread the message about individual freedom personal responsibility and limited constitutional government Plaintiffs tied to the N C Association of Educators teachers union are challenging Opportunity Scholarship school vouchers in court Opponents contend vouchers violate the state constitution despite the fact that the N C Supreme Court upheld Opportunity Scholarships in Jeanette Doran president and [... more]

While Medicaid expansion dominates North Carolina's health care headlines other topics deserve attention too Jordan Roberts John Locke Foundation health care policy analyst focuses on two health care innovations First he explains how Medibid connects patients and doctors through online auctions Second he discusses the planned merger of Aetna and CVS and the potential impact on retail health care Advocates of a Convention of States made their pitch again this year in North Carolina Mark Meckler president and founder of the Convention of States project enlisted public support for the idea from conservative commentator and former Florida congressman Allen West [... more]

Republican Donald Trump shocked many political observers by winning the presidential race including North Carolina's electoral votes Republican incumbent Richard Burr withstood a hard campaign from Democratic challenger Deborah Ross to win a third term as North Carolina's senior U S senator Carolina Journal Editor-in-Chief Rick Henderson analyzes the significance of these election results and what they say about the N C electorate You'll also hear highlights from Burr's election-night victory speech and Ross' concession speech Seven months after arriving in Chapel Hill University of North Carolina system president Margaret Spellings used her official installation ceremony to make a plea [... more]